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WEB released for the Course and Symposium on Mouse Cryopreservation, Campinas, Brazil, November 22-26, 2010

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
Course and Symposium on Mouse Cryopreservation, Campinas, Brazil, November 22-26, 2010

Course and Symposium on Mouse Cryopreservation, Campinas, Brazil, November 22-26, 2010

The course on “Cryopreservation of Mouse Germoplasm” and the associated symposium on “Animal Models and Cryopreservation“, to be held in Campinas (Brazil), November 22-26, 2010, has released its new web site. These course and symposium are organized by the University of Campinas and the Multidisciplinary Center for Biological Investigation on Laboratory Animal Science, and it is co-sponsored by the International Society for Transgenic Technologies (ISTT). The ISTT Members Jorge Stzein and Martina Crispo are members of the Organizing Committee.

As it is stated in the symposium’s web page: “It is aimed to trigger the development of close cooperation between specialists from CEMIB and those from other institutions world wide, to train a group of biologists in cryopreservation and assisted reproduction techniques and to stimulate discussions to address the future needs and requirements of the Brazilian Scientific community in this area.”

EMMA-JAX cryocourse 2010

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
EMMA-JAX cryopreservation course 2010

EMMA-JAX cryopreservation course 2010

The Istituto di Biologia Cellulare of Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche-”A. Buzzati-Traverso” Campus and The Jackson Laboratory offer a comprehensive course on cryopreservation of mouse embryos, sperm and ovaries. This Course is financially supported by the EU FP7 Capacities Specific Program, through the European Mouse Mutant Archive (EMMA). The course will be held at the “A. Buzzatti-Traverso” Campus, in Monterotondo, Rome, Italy on October 25-29, 2010.

The course is offered to teach methods in cryopreservation for banking of various strains of mice used in research, including inbred, transgenic and knock-out strains. Several methods of cryopreservation are now available and because no single method is adequate for all the various strains of mice being developed, a variety of methods are taught. The course is designed primarily as a “hands-on” laboratory program in which participants learn techniques for the cryopreservation of cleavage-stage embryos, spermatozoa and ovaries.

Additional information about this EMMA-JAX Cryocourse 2010

Application form

Deadline for submitting applications: September 25, 2010

Course on Managing Mouse Colonies: Genetics, Breeding & Welfare

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
Course on Managing Mouse Colonies

Course on Managing Mouse Colonies

The RSPCA and EUMODIC will be holding a two-day course entitled: Managing Mouse Colonies: Genetics, Breeding & Welfare. The course, a collaboration between MRC Harwell, the Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, the RSPCA and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, will introduce experienced technicians and scientific staff involved with the management of GA mice, to current best practice in the maintenance of GA mouse colonies for scientific research, with an emphasis on the 3Rs and animal welfare. The event will be limited to 30 participants and take place on the 20th & 21st July 2010 at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK.

Topics to include:

• Establishing & maintaining transgenic lines
• Establishing & maintaining gene targeted lines
• An introduction to genetic/strain nomenclature
• Basic colony management
• Breeding workshop
• Advanced colony management
• Identifying and overcoming common issues
• Maintenance of high health status colonies
• Cryopreservation/rederivation workshop
• Experimental design workshop

Cost £150 (to cover all accommodation, food and course materials)

For more information, or to obtain an application form please email: GA@rspca.org.uk (putting ‘colony management course’ in the subject field) before 31st March 2010.

TT2010 meeting approved by the German Federal Veterinarian Association as educational training

Friday, December 25th, 2009
German Federal Veterinarian Association (Bundestierärztekammer)

German Federal Veterinarian Association (Bundestierärztekammer)

Attention Veterinarians! The 9th Transgenic Technologies Meeting (TT2010) has been approved by the German Federal Veterinarian Association (Bundestierärztekammer) as educational training. German veterinarians can claim credits of the Academy for Veterinary Education (ATF Stunden). You can contact the TT2010 registration office (tt2010@transtechsociety.org) and we will prepare the respective document confirming your participation in the conference. This document can then be claimed on the last day of the meeting at the registration desk. If you are not from Germany, please check with your local authorities, whether or not the meeting will be accepted as an educational training.

January 17, 2010: deadline for expression of interests to attend the TT2010 Hands-On Workshop (WS1)

Sunday, December 13th, 2009
TT2010 meeting

TT2010 meeting

January 17, 2010 is the deadline for expressing interests to attend the announced TT2010 hands-on workshop (WS1), adequated for learning basic techniques in transgenesis. To indicate interest to attend the WS1 Hand-On Workshops please select the corresponding option at the time of registration.

10th Anniversary EMMA-JAX cryopreservation course

Thursday, November 26th, 2009
10th anniversary EMMA-JAX cryopreservation course (Marcello Raspa, left, and Stanley Leybo)

10th anniversary EMMA-JAX cryopreservation course (Marcello Raspa, left, and Stanley Leybo)

The 10th anniversary EMMA-JAX cryopreservation course has been held in Monterotondo-Rome (Italy), at the IBC-CNR “A. Buzzati-Traverso” Campus, on November 23-26, 2009. ISTT has supported this course, according to the cooperation agreement signed with EMMA, and hence, the Society was presented to all participants and teachers. Ten participants were selected among all applications received and could learn about mouse embryo and sperm cryopreservation, among other related topics. They practised state-of-the-art techniques about how to cryopreserve mouse sperm, how to do an in vitro fertilization, how to obtain and cryopreserve 2-cell IVF-derived mouse embryos and how to do vitrification. In these ten editions since 1999, more than hundred participants have attended these annual cryopreservation courses, thus contributing to the successful spreading of these techniques among many laboratories from many countries around the world.

IBC-CNR, EMMA and JAX logos

IBC-CNR, EMMA and JAX logos

 The faculties for this course were Stanley Leibo (Univ. New Orleans, LA, USA), as Course Director; Robert Taft (The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME, USA); Jorge Sztein (NIAID-NIH, Rockwille, MD, USA), Kent Lloyd (Univ. California, Davis, CA, USA), Martin Fray (MRC-MGU, Harwell, Didcot, UK), Susan Marschall (IEG, Munich, Germany); Lluis Montoliu (CNB-CSIC, Madrid, Spain); and Raffaele Matteoni, Ferdinando Scavizzi and Marcello Raspa, from IBC-CNR-EMMA, Monterotondo, Italy. The instructors included Jane Farley and Sian Clemmens, from The Jackson Laboratory, and Arsenio Armagno, Daniele Iannilli, Tiziana La Penna, Ilaria Losso and the rest of cryopreservation support personnel from IBC-CNR-EMMA, Monterotondo, Italy.

10th anniversary EMMA-JAX cryopreservation course

10th anniversary EMMA-JAX cryopreservation course

EMMA Laboratory Course on Cryopreservation of Mouse Germplasm

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
EMMA Monterotondo Cryopreservation Course 2009

EMMA Monterotondo Cryopreservation Course 2009

 The Istituto di Biologia Cellulare of Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche-”A. Buzzati-Traverso” Campus and The Jackson Laboratory offer a comprehensive course on cryopreservation of mouse embryos, sperm and ovaries that will be held in Monterotondo (Italy), on November 23-26, 2009. This Course is financially supported by the EU FP7 Capacities Specific Program, through the European Mouse Mutant Archive (EMMA).

Deadline for submitting applications: October 15, 2009

Additional information about this cryopreservation course: INFORMATION

Course application form: APPLICATION FORM

Enrollment is limited to 10 participants and early application is advised.

TT2010 Meeting web site launched, registration open!

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
TT2010 meeting web site launched, registration open!

TT2010 meeting web site launched, registration open!

On behalf of the ISTT, the TT2010 Organizing Committee and its chair, Dr. Boris Jerchow, it is my pleasure to launch the TT2010 meeting web site, containing all currently available information regarding the 9th Transgenic Technology Meeting that will be held in Berlin, Germany, at the MDC, on March 22-24, 2010.

Registration for the TT2010 meeting is now possible. The following are the most important dates and deadlines:

July 15, 2009: TT2010 meeting registration is now open
December 1, 2009: deadline application Registration Awards
December 31st, 2009: deadline Abstract submission
January 17, 2010: deadline Early Registration
March 14, 2010: Late Registration ends

A limited number of hotel rooms have been reserved for the TT2010 meeting at reduced prices, please check the list of pre-arranged TT2010 conference hotels. In order to ensure that your hotel reservation can be made as required we recommend applying as early as possible together with your registration and abstract submission. Rooms will be reserved on a first come – first serve basis.

The ISTT will sponsor up to eight registration awards for ISTT members willing to attend the TT2010 Meeting. Applications for registration awards by ISTT members should be sent, along with the requested documentation, to istt@transtechsociety.org by December 1st, 2009.

Collection of videos of animal transgenesis at the ISTT

Thursday, February 26th, 2009
58 videos availbale at the ISTT

58 videos available at the ISTT

Currently, we have 58 videos on different aspects of animal transgenesis, kindly and generously shared by various ISTT Members. Videos are available within the members-only area of the ISTT web site. If you are not yet ISTT Member, please consider registering to our Society.

The current list of ISTT videos include:

1) Pronuclear microinjection of DNA into a sheep fertilised oocyte

2) Microinjection of murine ES cells into a mouse blastocyst

3) Nuclear transfer in mouse embryos. Nucleus of a blastomer into a enucleated metaphase II oocyte

4) Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI). Handling thawn (dead) sperm heads incubated with DNA solution (collecting heads and preparing for microinjection) as reported in Moreira et al. 2006

5) Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI) Microinjecting (piezo) sperm heads into metaphase II oocytes as reported in Moreira et al. 2006

6) Pronuclear microinjection of DNA into a mouse fertilised oocyte

7) Pronuclear microinjection of DNA into a mouse fertilised oocyte II

8 ) Pronuclear microinjection of DNA into a mouse fertilised oocyte III

9) Pronuclear microinjection of DNA into a mouse fertilised oocyte IV

10) Pronuclear microinjection of DNA into a mouse fertilised oocyte V

11) Pronuclear microinjection of DNA into a mouse fertilised oocyte VI

12) Pronuclear microinjection of DNA into a mouse fertilised oocyte VII

13) Pronuclear microinjection of DNA into a mouse fertilised oocyte VIII

14) Pronuclear microinjection of DNA into a mouse fertilised oocyte IX

15) Pronuclear microinjection of DNA into a mouse fertilised oocyte X

16) ES cell microinjection into a mouse blastocyst I

17) ES cell microinjection into a mouse blastocyst II

18) ES cell microinjection into a mouse blastocyst III

19) ES cell microinjection into a mouse blastocyst IV

20) Picking up mouse ES cells into a microinjection pipette

21) Loading a pipette with mouse embryos

22) Oviduct (infundibulum) transfer of mouse embryos

23) Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI) Microinjecting (piezo) sperm heads into metaphase II oocytes

24) Removing tails from sperm heads with a piezo

25) Fill - Lentivrus injection procedure (loading lentivirus and cellular debris particles into  the pipette)

26) Subzonal Injection. Lentivrus injection procedure (releasing lentivirus and cellular debris particles in the perizonal space, under the zona pellucida)

27) Discharge - Lentivirus injection (releasing lentivirus and cellular debris particles out of the pipette)

28) 2-cell mouse embryos post IVF

29) How to grab a mouse with one hand? I

30) How to grab a mouse with one hand? II

31) How to grab a mouse with one hand? III

32) Mouse intraperitoneal (IP) injection

33) Application of ear tags to mice for identification purposes I (usually done at weaning)

34) Application of ear tags to mice for identification purposes II (usually done at weaning)

35) Mouse tail biopsy using a home-made mouse restraint device and a sharp red-hot blade attached to a soldering tool for cutting and wound cauterisation purposes I (usually done at weaning)

36) Mouse tail biopsy using a home-made mouse restraint device and a sharp red-hot blade attached to a soldering tool for cutting and wound cauterisation purposes II (usually done at weaning)

37) Mouse euthanasia by cervical dislocation I

38) Mouse euthanasia by cervical dislocation II

39) Visual phenotyping of spatial acuity in mice with the optomotor test as described in Lavado et al. 2006

40) Visual phenotyping of spatial acuity in mice with the optomotor test. Cylinder turns left, albino mouse turns random because it cannot see, as described in Lavado et al. 2006.

41) Visual phenotyping of spatial acuity in mice with the optomotor test. Cylinder turns right, albino mouse turns random because it cannot see, as described in Lavado et al. 2006

42) Visual phenotyping of spatial acuity in mice with the optomotor test. Cylinder turns left, pigmented mouse turns left too because it can seem as described in Lavado et al. 2006

43) Visual phenotyping of spatial acuity in mice with the optomotor test. Cylinder turns right  pigmented mouse turns right too because it can see, as described in Lavado et al. 2006

44) Mouse ICSI using the XYClone Laser

45) ES-cell injection into mouse 8-cell embryos using the XYClone Laser

46) ES-cell injection into mouse blastocysts using the XYClone Laser

47) Mouse ICM xenogenic-free excission using the XYClone Laser

48) Bovine embryo biopsy using the XYClone Laser

49) Bovine ICSI using the XYClone Laser

50) Mouse vasectomy (abdominal)

51) Oviduct transfer upstream of the ampulla. (Oviduct “hole in the wall” transfer technique) Transfer between the infundibulum and the ampulla

52) Laser-assisted ES cell injection into a mouse 8 cell embryo using the OCTAX Laser Shot system (MTG)

53) Mouse vasectomy (scrotal)

54) Non-Surgical Embryo Transfer Device NSET (ParaTechs)

55) Flushing a mouse oviduct

56) Washing fertilised oocytes after IVF (transferring from HTF to KSOM)

57) Stained mid-gestation lacZ reporter mouse embryos (Myf5, Kit, Pax3 and Dct lacZ reporter mouse embryos are shown in this order, audio available)

58) ES cell injection into mouse 8-cell embryos

New logo for TT2010 meeting released

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
TT2010 meeting

TT2010 meeting

A brand new, really nice and very reminiscent logo has been released for the next Transgenic Technology Meeting, TT2010, that will be held in Berlin (Germany), on March 22-24, 2010, at MDC, under the organisation and coordination of Boris Jerchow.


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