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

The 19th International Zebrafish Conference
July 9-13, 2025 | Madison, WI, USA

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Program

The 19th IZFC featured two keynote speakers and two award lecturers. There were also many plenary and concurrent sessions that 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: (Bio)physics of Body Building, Seeking Mechanisms of Brain Development, The MBL Zebrafish Course, Dissecting Human Hematopoietic Stem Cell Development, Self-Renewal and Transformation, and so much more.

Program Agenda

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Keynote Lectures

 

 

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Award Lectures

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2025 Christine Beattie Award

Congratulations to the 2025 Christine Beattie Award winner, Susannah Schloss! 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.

About the 2024 Christine Beattie Award Winner, Susannah Schloss: Susannah Schloss is a third-year graduate student in the Cell Biology, Stem Cells, and Development program at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus School of Medicine. She has a Doctorate in Cell Biology, and two Bachelors in Neuroscience and Psychology. She began as a husbandry technician five years ago, and has since published a first-author article about zebrafish organisms and their response to certain stimuli. Her current research focuses on genetic, molecular, and circuit level mechanisms of behavior.

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Conference Organizing Committee

Feng Liu, PhD (Chair) President of the IZFS  Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences	Cheol-Hee Kim, PhD Chungnam National University
Owen Tamplin, PhD (Co-Chair)  University of Wisconsin-Madison	Anming Meng, PhD School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University
Michel Bagnat, PhD Duke University	Mary Mullins, PhD University of Pennsylvania
Koichi Kawakami, PhD National Institute of Genetics	Didier Stainier, PhD Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research

 

 

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2024 IZFC Sponsors & Exhibitors

Gold Sponsor $10,000 - $14,999

Silver Sponsors $4,600 - $9,999

Bronze Sponsors $2,400 - $5,499

Poster Prize Sponsors

                                          

Grant Support

The National Institute of Health