Program

2024 Mid-Atlantic Regional Zebrafish Meeting 

Friday, April 26th at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

Generously sponsored by: Aquaneering, Avantor VWR, Corning, Evident, IZFS, Miele, Molecular Instruments, Noldus, and Stirling Ultracold. 

11:30-12:30 PM: Registration (4th floor hallway)

12:30 - 12:40 PM: Greetings (Rm 4225)

12:40 - 2:50 PM: Session 1 (Rm 4225)

12:40-1:00 PM: Miranda Marvel, NIH – A novel zebrafish model of hypouricemia elucidates liver- specific    disruption of epigenetic mechanisms

1:00 - 1:20 PM: Weiyi Qian, NYU SOM - The rhythm of cell walking: pulses of actomyosin con- traction drive pulsatile cell protrusion dynamics in collective cell migration

1:20 -1:40 PM: Avani Modak, NIH - Characterizing Hybrid Cell Fate and Formation in Zebrafish Axial Mesoderm Development

1:40 - 1:45 PM: Short Break

1:45 - 2:05 PM: Beth Harvey, U of Pennsylvania - The glycosyltransferase Lh3 acts during optic nerve regeneration to direct RGC axons toward the CNS midline

2:05 - 2:25 PM: Natasha O’Brown, Rutgers U - Uncovering molecular and cellular regulators of the blood-brain barrier

2:25 - 2:50 PM: Poster Blitz

2:50 - 4:20 PM: Coffee Break and Poster Session (4th floor hallway)

With refreshments & vendor displays

4:20 - 6:00 PM: Session 2 (Rm 4225)

4:20 - 4:40 PM: Sofia de Oliveira, Albert Einstein COM - Deciphering how diet and aging impact biology and their role in disease

4:40 - 5:00 PM: Alexander Seaver, Lehigh U - Understanding how retinoic acid regulates cx43 expression during skeletal patterning in the regenerating fin

5:00 - 5:20 PM: Sierra Duca, Weill Cornell - Vascular and non-vascular contributions of vegfc to zebrafish heart development and regeneration

5:20 - 5:40 PM: McKenna Feltes, Johns Hopkins - WheresWalker: a bioinformatic pipeline for rapid mutation mapping using whole genome sequencing

5:40 - 6:00 PM: Anastasia Nizik, Albert Einstein COM - Identifying the Origin of Innate Lymphoid Cells in Zebrafish Development

6:00 - 6:10 PM: Best Poster Awards & Concluding Remarks (Rm 4225)

6:10 PM - 8:00: Dinner (3rd and 4th floor halls or outside)

Generously provided by our sponsors:

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