Innovative Approaches to Decoding Disease Mechanisms Using Zebrafis

10:15 - 10:50

Registration & Coffee

10:50 - 11:15

Welcome address - ZeNCure: Building excellence in zebrafish research Speaker: Aleksandra Divac Rankov,
 IMGGE, Serbia

11:15 - 12:00

Zebrafish Avatars: a platform for personalized medicine & discovery of innate immune mechanisms & modulators
 for cancer immunotherapy Speaker: Rita Fior,
 Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal

12:00 - 12:45

Modelling rare brain disorders in zebrafish: functional genomics in vivo to assist clinical decisions and unravel druggable pathways Speaker: Antonella Lauri, Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù – IRCCS, Rome, Italy

12:45 - 14:15

Lunch Break

14:15 - 14:45

Sequencing-based spatial transcriptomics in zebrafish development and disease modeling Speaker: Aleksandra Divac Rankov,
 IMGGE, Serbia

14:45 - 15:30

Single-cell transcriptomics in tumour models in zebrafish Speaker: Maria Caterina Mione,
 University of Trento, Italy

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 16:45

Dads, drinks and FASD-like damage: Utilizing zebrafish to characterize the effects preconception paternal ethanol exposure has on fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs) Speaker: Yohaan Fernandes, University of South Dakota, USA /online

16:45 - 17:30

Substance use and genetic variation underlying birth defects Speaker: Gissela Borrego-Soto, University of Texas at Austin, USA /online

10:30 - 11:15

Immune-cardiac niche interactions across scales Speaker: Filipa Costa Simões, University of Oxford, UK

11:15 - 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:15

Injury Context Matters: Does Damage Type Shape the Logic of Skeletal Muscle Repair
 in Zebrafish? Speaker: Snezana Kojic, IMGGE, Serbia

12:15 - 13:45

Lunch Break

13:45 - 14:30

Decoding Neuromuscular Disorders with Zebrafish: Mechanistic Insight and Pharmacological Discovery Speaker: Pascale Bomont, INSERM, Lyon, France

14:30 - 15:15

Title to be announced Speaker: Darius Balciunas,
 Temple University, Philadelphia, USA /online