Genome Editing in Zebrafish: Knock-ins and their applications
- Starts at: 2025-08-18 17:00
- Ends at: 2025-08-20 13:00
Event is organized by: Darius Balčiūnas (), Ben Shih-Lei Lai and Justas Lazutka.
We invite you to register for the LT-TW Workshop "Genome Editing in Zebrafish: Knock-ins and their applications" at Vilnius University Life Sciences Center (Saulėtekio ave. 7), Lithuania.
Registration will close on July 25, 2025 or upon reaching capacity for 50 participants.
Date of the event: August 18-20, 2025
This workshop will bring together developers and users of genome editing tools with an emphasis on knock-in methods and applications of knock-in lines. All registered graduate students and postdocs will be expected to present posters.
Registration fee - 90 eur. Registration fee must be transfered to Balt-LASA account: LT44 7044 0600 0437 8177.
Preliminary program:
August 18
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17:00 - 18:00 |
Registration and Welcome reception |
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18:00 - 18:45 |
Advances in epitope tagging in zebrafish |
Plenary Lecture Darius Balčiūnas Temple University |
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18:45 - 19:45 |
TBD |
Keynote Lecture Stephen Ekker Texas A&M University |
August 19
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10:00 - 11:00 |
Practical Workshop I: Oligonucleotide-mediated homology directed repair |
Justas Lazutka and Darius Balčiūnas |
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11:00 - 12:00 |
Practical Workshop II: Targeted integration of large transgenes |
Olov Andersson, Thomas Juan, Ben Shih-Lei Lai |
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12:00 - 13:00 |
Lunch Break |
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13:00 - 13:45 |
Tissue-resident macrophages in cardiac regeneration |
Plenary Lecture Ben Shih-Lei Lai Academia Sinica |
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13:45 - 14:30 |
TBD |
Plenary lecture Olov Andersson Uppsala University |
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14:30 - 15:15 |
TBD |
Plenary Lecture Thomas Juan Uppsala University |
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15:15 - 16:00 |
Presentations by graduate students and postdocs |
TBD |
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16:00 - 18:00 |
Poster Session and Coffee Break |
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18:00 - 19:00 |
Transcriptional Adaptation, an RNA-based mechanism of genetic compensation |
Keynote Lecture Didier Stainier Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research |
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19:00 - 19:30 |
Travel to dinner |
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19:30 - |
Conference Dinner (location TBD) |
August 20
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10:00 - 11:00 |
Practical Workshop III: Conditional gene inactivation |
Miglė Kalvaitytė, Edita Bakūnaitė and Darius Balčiūnas |
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11:00 - 12:00 |
Practical Workshop IV: TBD |
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12:00 - 12:05 |
Concluding Remarks |
Darius Balčiūnas and Ben Shih-Lei Lai |
Supported by Grants S-LT-TW-24-14 (Research Council of Lithuania) to Darius Balciunas and NSTC 113-2923-B-001-003-MY2 (National Science and Technology Council of Taiwan) to Ben Shi-Lei Lai.