17th International Zebrafish Conference

Program | Keynote Lectures | Award Lectures | Poster Prize Winners | Beattie Award Winner | Organizing Committee | Sponsors & Exhibitors

The 17th International Zebrafish Conference
June 22-26, 2022 | Montreal, Canada & Virtual 

The 17th International Zebrafish Conference was offered in a hybrid format. Over 400 zebrafish community members joined live in Montreal for the 17th International Zebrafish Conference and 200+  attended virtually. It was a truly unique and innovative conference that incorporated the best of both in-person and virtual conference experiences.

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Program

IZFC featured a stellar keynote speaker, two prestigious award lectures. A wealth of plenary and concurrent sessions highlighted the latest zebrafish research advances and informed participants about the newest cutting-edge zebrafish research tools and technologies. The presentations featured a host of topics including: genetics and genomics, imaging, regeneration, sustainability and so much more. All sessions were recorded for future access. 

Program Agenda

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Keynote Lecture

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Award Lectures

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2022 International Zebrafish Conference Poster Prize Winners

Thank you to Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. Foundation, eLife Sciences and FEBS Letters who sponsored this year's poster prizes!

Names listed in alphabetical order.

Name	Affiliation	Submission title
Eleanor Duncan	University of Toronto	Characterization of Deeply Conserved Enhancers Implicated in Congenital Heart Disease
Amelia Glazier	Universitätsklinikum Ulm	The selective VCP inhibitor CB-5083 impairs striated muscle function in zebrafish and disrupts cardiomyocyte protein homeostasis
Luca Guglielmi	The Francis Crick Institute	Nodal signaling establishes a competency window for stochastic cell fate switching
Madeleine Hewitt	University of Washington	Analyzing 3D cell and nuclear shape in zebrafish lateral line neuromasts
Erin Jimenez	National Institute of Health	A regulatory network of Sox and Six transcription factors initiate a cell fate transformation during hearing regeneration in adult zebrafish
William Jones	University of Pennsylvania	A New Mechanism of Dorsal Axial Organizer Repression by Integrator Complex Subunit 6
Andrea  Pedroni	Karolinska Institutet	Activity dependent modulation of adult spinal neurogenesis
Nahal O Shahidan	University of Sheffield	Adgrg6 variant analyses: from chemical screening in zebrafish to virtual screens and in vitro assays
Nathan Stutt	University of Toronto	The role of the apelin receptor in cardiac lineage specification in zebrafish
Abhinav Sur	NICHD/NIH	Shared and tissue-specific molecular states during zebrafish development
Wen Hui Tan	National University of Singapore	A Collagen10a1 mutation disrupts cell polarity and causes skeletal defects in a medaka (Oryzias latipes) model for Schmid Metaphyseal Chondrodysplasia

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2022 Christine Beattie Award

Congratulations to the 2022 Christine Beattie Award winner, Yunlu Zhu! The award recognizes junior investigators who demonstrate excellence in the field of zebrafish research and exhibit promise as a future leader in the zebrafish field. Dr. Zhu was awarded based on his IZFC presentation “Linking molecular abnormalities to behavioral deficits using a zebrafish model for tauopathies”. 

About the 2022 Christine Beattie Award Winner, Yunlu Zhu: Dr. Yunlu Zhu is a postdoctoral fellow at the Neuroscience Institute, NYU School of Medicine. Yunlu studies the neural circuits underlying balance control in the context of neurodegenerative diseases. Specifically, his work focuses on progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), a tau-protein disorder that causes frequent falls in patients starting from the early stage of the disease. Yunlu strives to understand how biochemical dysfunction leads to balance disorders in PSP. Yunlu has generated a novel zebrafish model for tauopathies, which allows him to investigate disease mechanisms across molecular, cellular, circuit, and behavior levels. Yunlu earned his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia where he studied glia and neurodevelopment while accidentally discovering novel roles of neural crest cells in phagocytosing dead cells during neurodevelopment. His long-term interest is to understand how neurons and glia assemble into functional circuits and how molecular and cellular dysfunctions disrupt behavior in disease.

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Conference Organizing Committee

Lila Solnica-Krezel, PhD, IZFS President, Committee Chair Washington University School of Medicine	Ashley Bruce, PhD University of Toronto
Brian Ciruna, PhD University of Toronto	Hiromi Hirata, PhD Aoyama Gakuin University
Corinne Houart, PhD King's College London	Kristen Kwan, PhD University of Utah
Kessen Patten, PhD Institut National de Recherche Scientifique	Caroline Lei Wee, PhD Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
Flavio Zolessi, PhD Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de La Republica

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2022 IZFC Sponsors & Exhibitors

Platinum Sponsors

 

Silver Sponsor

 

Afternoon Break Sponsor

 

Poster Prize Sponsor

EDWARD MALLINCKRODT JR. FOUNDATION

17th IZFC Exhibitors

Plastic Oceans

IZFC Supporters

Grant Supporters

National Institutes of Health (NIH)