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Friday, May 17th, 2013
The new elected 2013 ISTT Vice-President (Benoît Kanzler) and council members (Karen Brennan and Jorge Sztein)
These are the official results of the 2013 ISTT elections, for choosing a new ISTT Vice-President and two new council members. Benoît Kanzler (Freiburg, Germany) has been elected ISTT Vice-President. Karen Brennan (Sydney, Australia) and Jorge Sztein (Rockville, MD, USA) have been elected new ISTT council members. All three candidates received the support of the majority of voting ISTT members. The official start of their four-year term will begin on January 1, 2014. However, they will be immediately appointed as elected ISTT Vice-President and elected ISTT council members, respectively, to overlap and interact with the rest of officers and council members during 2013, in order to become familiar with the administrative and managing tasks of our Society. Congratulations to all of them!.
The ISTT would like to express its respect and sincere appreciation for the willingness, committment and generousity of all candidates participating in this ISTT election process, including Wenhao Xu (Charlottesville, VA, USA), who did run also for the ISTT Vice-Presidency.
Tags: Council Election, elections, ISTT Elections, ISTT Vice-President election
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Tuesday, March 26th, 2013
Mouse sperm cryopreservation: satellite workshop at the 2013 FELASA-SECAL Congress in Barcelona, Spain, 10 June 2013
The International Society for Transgenic Technologies (ISTT) is pleased to announce the approved co-sponsorship of the Mouse Sperm Cryopreservation satellite workshop, organized by Jorge Sztein (NIH, Rockville, MD, USA) and Jesús Martínez Palacio (CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain), both ISTT members, in Barcelona (Spain) on 10 June 2013, within the activities associated to the 2013 FELASA-SECAL Congress in Barcelona, Spain, 10-13 June 2013. The main objective of this workshop is to acquaint students on reliable methods of mouse sperm cryopreservation, Jax and Nakagata, without requiring appliances or large investments to establishing a program at their centers. This course involves manipulation of animals and LN2.
This half-day satellite workshop will be held on 10 June 2013 from 09.00 to 12.00 h. at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Experimental Animal Unit. Satellite workshop registration fee: €120. Seats are limited to 24 participants. ISTT members, including those already registered to attend this workshop, are entitled to 25% discount. Interested participants should contact: felasa2013-registrations@mondial-congress.com
Tags: FELASA, ISTT co-sponsorisation, sperm cryopreservation, Workshop
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Friday, February 22nd, 2013
CARD-CNB Mouse Sperm and Embryo Cryopreservation Practical Course, Madrid, Spain, 7-11 October 2013
The International Society for Transgenic Technologies (ISTT) has agreed to co-sponsor the CARD-CNB Mouse Sperm and Embryo Cryopreservation Practical Course that will be held at the National Centre for Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC), in Madrid, CSIC, during one week, on 7-11 October 2013, organized by Naomi Nakagata (CARD-Kumamoto University, Japan, Coordinator of CARD) and Lluis Montoliu (CNB-CSIC, Madrid, Spain, Coordinator of the Spanish EMMA node).
This course is open to anyone interested. Pre-application will be required, including, at least, a recent CV and a letter prepared by the intended participant describing how the applicant will benefit by attending this course and how relevant is the course material to his/her work. Additional documents are welcome, at the discretion of participants, including supporting letters by supervisors (where appropriate), reference letters, etc… Pre-applications should be submitted by email to cryocourse@cnb.csic.es by 31 May 2013.
The maximum number of participants attending this course will be 20, distributed among countries and institutions, and according the documentation provided and the interests expressed. Pre-applications will be accepted until 31 May 2013. The review and selection of participants will be done by the Organizers from 1 to 15 June 2013. Registrations and payments for selected participants will be accepted from June 16, 2013 to August 31, 2013. If required, an ordered waiting list will be prepared and any cancellation or unpaid registration by 31 August 2013 will be readily substituted by the first available person from this waiting list, starting on 1 September 2013.
The course registration fee is 800 Euros (with a reduced fee of 750 Euros for ISTT Members). This fee includes participation in the entire course, all materials and reagents, lunches over the 5 days and one course official dinner. Hotel costs are not included in the registration fee but booking assistance will be provided, if required, at a convenient nearby hotel, close to CNB Campus, where all instructors and lecturers will be also lodged, hence further promoting interaction from breakfast to dinner. The official language of the course will be English.
COURSE INFORMATION: Recent developments from the laboratory of Prof. Naomi Nakagata (CARD-Kumamoto University, Japan) have boosted the mouse cryopreservation field with improved methods for fresh and frozen sperm techniques and associated optimized IVF methods that have resulted in unparalleled increased efficiencies for the cryopreservation and rescue of relevant mouse lines. At the CNB-CSIC in Madrid, hosting the Spanish EMMA node, these new CARD cryopreservation methods have been successfully implemented and, moreover, a fruitful collaboration has been established with the laboratory of Prof. Naomi Nakagata, eventually resulting in the signature of an institutional cooperation agreement between the CSIC and the University of Kumamoto, under the framework of which this cryopreservation course is organized. The aim of this course is to introduce the new CARD methods to researchers and technicians involved in managing mouse archiving and/or transgenic facilities and willing to implement these new methods, directly taught by the team which devised them. Each participant will have one stereomicroscope and the entire set of tools, reagents and animals required to learn and practice all the methods included in the program of this course. In addition to practical sessions, the course will also include several lectures of related interesting topics for the participants delivered by experts in each field. The number of instructors and lecturers appointed is 20.
Hands-on topics that will be covered during this cryopreservation course
- making pipettes and practising embryo handling
- isolating unfertilized mouse oocytes
- isolating and cold storage/shipping of mouse cauda epididymis
- freezing/thawing mouse sperm and IVF
- fresh mouse sperm and IVF
- freezing/thawing 2-cell IVF-derived mouse embryos
- vitrification of mouse oocytes and embryos
- embryo transfer techniques in mice
- vasectomy of male mice
- demonstration of ICSI
Additional lectures on the following topics
- new EU Directive on the protection of animals for experimentation
- new US Guidelines for the use of animals in research
- epigenetic effects of in vitro culture on mouse embryos
- databases for handling information in cryopreservation facilities
- shipping mice, refrigerated and frozen material
- safety issues handling liquid nitrogen in a cryopreservation facility
- EMMA and Infrafrontier-I3
- MMRRC
Instructors
- Naomi Nakagata (CARD-Kumamoto University, Japan)
- Toru Takeo (CARD-Kumamoto University, Japan)
- Kiyoko Fukumoto (CARD-Kumamoto University, Japan)
- Tomoko Kondo (CARD-Kumamoto University, Japan)
- Yukie Haruguchi (CARD-Kumamoto University, Japan)
- Yumi Takeshita (CARD-Kumamoto University, Japan)
- Yuko Nakamuta (CARD-Kumamoto University, Japan)
- Shuji Tsuchiyama (CARD-Kumamoto University, Japan)
- Raul Fernández (INIA, Madrid, Spain)
- Lluis Montoliu (CNB-CSIC, Madrid, Spain)
- Julia Fernández (CNB-CSIC, Madrid, Spain)
- María Jesús del Hierro (CNB-CSIC, Madrid, Spain)
- Marta Castrillo (CNB-CSIC, Madrid, Spain)
- Isabel Martín-Dorado (CNB-CSIC, Madrid, Spain)
- Kristy Kinchen (Mouse Biology Program, UC Davis, CA, USA)
Additional lectures by
- Naomi Nakagata (CARD-Kumamoto University, Japan)
- Toru Takeo (CARD-Kumamoto University, Japan)
- Shuji Tsuchiyama (CARD-Kumamoto University, Japan)
- Alfonso Gutiérrez-Adán (INIA, Madrid, Spain)
- Kent Lloyd (Mouse Biology Program, UC Davis, CA, USA)
- Belén Pintado (CNB-CSIC, Madrid, Spain)
- Jesús Martínez Palacio (CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain)
- Javier Guillén (AAALAC, Pamplona, Spain)
- Lluis Montoliu (CNB-CSIC, Madrid, Spain)
Tags: Cryopreservation course, embryo cryopreservation, ISTT co-sponsorisation, IVF, practical course, sperm cryopreservation
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2013
IX Transgenic Animal Research Conference, Tahoe City, CA, USA, 11-15 August 2013
The International Society for Transgenic Technologies (ISTT) has decided, once again, to co-sponsor the IX Transgenic Animal Research Conference, hosted by the Department of Animal Science, UC Davis, and organized by ISTT Member Prof. James D. Murray. This conference will be held at the Granlibakken Conference Center, in Tahoe City, CA, USA, on 11-15 August 2013. This is a classical conference, most complementary to the TT meeting series, and specifically devoted to basic and applied projects, research and technical developments using non-rodent genetically modified animals. The ISTT is proud to have supported the two previous UC Davis Transgenic Conferences in Tahoe held in 2009 and 2011.
According to the conference web site: This is the ninth international meeting hosted by UC Davis to bring together representatives from the leading laboratories worldwide doing cutting edge work on transgenic research in non-murine animals, including livestock, fish and poultry species. The previous meetings were each attended by up to 160 participants from 12 to16 different countries throughout the globe. Each conference, in addition to reviews and papers on transgenic animals, included presentations covering technical developments in areas such as nuclear transfer-based cloning, cell transformation, vector design, and nuclease-directed gene insertion that affect the production of transgenic animals. Oral presentations are by invitation, with participants encouraged to contribute poster presentations. The upcoming conference will again focus on state-of-the-art science in the field of transgenic research. Presentations will address cutting-edge methodology, technical improvements, and current progress towards producing transgenic animals for biomedical and agricultural applications. The intent of these meetings is to bring together scientists to discuss progress, problems, and potential application of transgenic technology for animal applications. The meeting will consist of invited presentations and submitted posters. Two afternoons from noon to 4 p.m. and one evening will be free to allow for small group interactions and to take advantage of the great natural beauty and recreational activities in the Lake Tahoe area.
Already appointed and confirmed Speakers include:
- Matt Wheeler (Illinois) – opening talk
- Bruce Whitelaw (Edinburgh) – closing talk , ISTT Member
- Scott Fahrenkrug (Minnesota) – TALENS in livestock
- Emmanuelle Charpentier (Germany/Sweden) – CRISPR RNA-programming technology
- Caitlin Cooper (Davis) – feeding hLZ and hLF milk to pigs
- Hongbin He (China) – FMDV resistance
- Angelika Schnieke (Germany) – cancer models in pigs
- Chuck Long (A&M) lentiviral production of livestock
- Irina Polejaeva (Utah) – tg goat cardiovascular models
- Goetz Laible or Stefan Wagner (NZ) – KO of beta-lactoglobulin and transduction of the mammary gland
- Rob Etches (Crystal Biosciences) – heavy chain KO chickens
- Yonglun Luo (Alun) (Denmark) – adeno-assoc HR + talens / BCRA-1
- Mike McGrew (Roslin) growing and modifying avian primordial germ cells, including transposons
- Tim Doran (Aust) Virus disease resistant transgenic poultry and fish
- Derek Nimmo (UK) – TG mosquito for control of dengue fever
The complete registration packet for this
IX TARC conference includes: conference registration fee, four night’s accommodation at Granlibakken, all meals, refreshments, receptions and ground transportation from Davis or Reno (if needed) (USD 1,600).
ISTT Members are entitled to a reduced registration fee (USD 1,550). Registrations received after June 14, 2012 are NOT guaranteed.
Tags: Granlibakken, Tahoe, Transgenic Animal Research Conference, Transgenic livestock, UC Davis
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2013
7th Workshop on Innovative Mouse Models (IMM2013), Leiden, The Netherlands, 13-14 June 2013
The International Society for Transgenic Technologies (ISTT) has agreed to co-sponsor the 7th Workshop on Innovative Mouse Models (IMM2013), which will be held at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), in Leiden, The Netherlands, on 13-14 June 2013. This will be the third consecutive edition of this meeting series that is granted with the co-sponsorship of the ISTT, after the IMM2011 and the IMM2009 editions, due to its interest and relevance for the community of researchers using genetically-modified mice. The IMM2013 workshop is organized by: Jos Jonkers (NKI-AVL, Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Paul Krimpenfort (NKI-AVL, Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Werner Mueller (University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom), Hein te Riele (NKI-AVL, Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Els Robanus-Maandag (LUMC, Leiden, The Netherlands), Marian van Roon (VU, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and ISTT Member) and Sjef Verbeek (LUMC, Leiden, The Netherlands and ISTT Member).
According to the IMM2013 workshop web page: The primary goal of this two-day workshop is to bring together a diverse group of scientists interested in advanced genome alteration approaches in the mouse, including key developers of emerging technologies as well as researchers who wish to apply and assess these new approaches. The IMM2013 workshop will encourage an in-depth and unvarnished discussion of these technologies and novel developments. This 2-day workshop will have a mixture of invited speakers and selected presentations. Keynote lectures will be given by:
- Anton Wutz (UK) haploid ESC
- Haoyi Wang (US) iPS / TALENs
- Bill Skarnes (UK) high throughput TALENs
- Ben Davis (UK) docking site/ new recombinases
- Yann Herault (France) Cre transgenic mice
- Kevin Brindle (UK) MRI
- Mathijs Verhagen (NL) large scale phenotyping
- B Kappes (US) TALENs
- Zoltan Ivics (Germany) Transposons
Tags: Europe, IMM2013 meeting, Innovative Mouse Models, Leiden, transgenic mice
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Monday, January 14th, 2013
Updated program for the TT2013 meeting in China
The International Society for Transgenic Technologies (ISTT) is pleased to announce the latest updated scientific program for the 11th Transgenic Technology (TT2013) meeting, which will be held in Guangzhou, China, on February 25-27, 2013, followed by a 3-day hands-on practical workshop on basic microinjection techniques, on February 28-March 2, 2013. The TT2013 Meeting is organized by Prof. Ming Zhao (Southern Medical University, Guangzhou) and will be held at the Guangzhou Baiyun International Convention Center. The associated hands-on workshop is organized by Dr. Wenhao Xu (University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA) in collaboration with Prof. Liangping Li (Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China), Prof. Jing An (Cancer Institute, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China) and Prof. Ming Zhao. The practical workshop will be held at the Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou. Submission of late abstracts will be still accepted until January 24, 2013. Standard Registration fees apply until January 31, 2013. Registration to attend the TT2013 meeting should be done through the TT2013 meeting web site. Please register soon to attend the 2013 Edition of this world reference conference-series on animal transgenic technology.
The updated TT2013 program includes the following confirmed invited speakers:
- Fernando Benavides (MD Anderson Cancer Center, Smithville, TX, USA)
- Allan Bradley (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton/Cambridge, UK) ISTT Prize
- James Bussell (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton/Cambridge, UK)
- Shannon Byers (The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME, USA)
- Michael Dobbie (Australian Phenomics Facility, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia)
- Scott Fahrenkrug (Recombinetics, Minneapolis, MN, USA)
- Malcolm France (Sydney, Australia)
- Xiang Gao (Model Animal Research Center of Nanjing University, Nanjing, PR China)
- Alfonso Gutiérrez-Adán (Dep. Animal Reproduction, INIA, Madrid, Spain)
- Yann Herault (Institut Clinique de la Souris, ICS and IGBMC, Illkirch/Strasbourg, France)
- Benoît Kanzler (Max-Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany)
- Dietmar Kappes (Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA)
- Takashi Kohda (Department of Epigenetics, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan)
- Thomas Kolbe (Biomodels Austria and Institute for Biotechnology in Animal Production, IFA-Tulln, Austria)
- Takashi Kuramoto (Institute of Laboratory Animals, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan)
- Liangxue Lai (Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Science, Guangzhou, PR China)
- Jinsong Li (Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, PR China)
- Ning Li (State Key Laboratories for Agrobiotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, PR China)
- Depei Liu (Chinese Academy of Medical Science and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, PR China) TT2013 Opening Lecture
- Pentao Liu (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton/Cambridge, UK)
- Kent Lloyd (University of California, Davis, CA, USA)
- Kyle D. Lutes (Department of Computer and Information Technology-CIT Faculty, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA)
- Shoukhrat Mitalipov (Oregon National Primate Research Center, OHSU, Beaverton, OR, USA)
- Naomi Nakagata (Center for Animal Resources and Development, Kumamoto University, Japan)
- Catheryn O’Brien (The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne, Australia)
- Masaru Okabe (Genome Information Research Center Research, Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan)
- Jan Parker-Thornburg (MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA)
- Xin-an Pu (The Ohio State University, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, OH, USA)
- Toru Takeo (Center for Animal Resources and Development, Kumamoto University, Japan) ISTT Young Investigator Award
- Zhu-Gang Wang (Shanghai Research Center for Model Organisms, Shanghai, PR China)
- Guoliang Xu (Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, PR China)
- Bo Zhang (College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, PR China)
- Qi Zhou (The State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China)
Tags: China, Guangzhou, hands-on, Registration, TT2013, TT2013 meeting, Workshop
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Tuesday, January 1st, 2013
Happy New Year and 2013 ISTT Calendar
The International Society for Transgenic Technologies (ISTT) wishes a happy new year and all the best for 2013 to all its members and the entire community of technicians, students and scientists directly or indirectly related to animal transgenesis and animal biotechnology. We have just launched the joining/renewal campaign for 2013 ISTT memberships. We hope that all our 2012 ISTT members will remain with us one more year and that new colleagues will join our Society during 2013. Also, as it has become a new year’s tradition from the ISTT, we have prepared the corresponding 2013 ISTT calendar, this time illustrated with beautiful chimera pictures made by the ISTT Member Benoît Kanzler (Freiburg, Germany), a true artist picturing mice. This calendar, which also contains a number of ISTT and related events indicated, is made freely available to everyone for downloading from the ISTT web site. Looking forward to receive your renewals and requests for registration at the ISTT!
Tags: events, ISTT Calendar, ISTT Members, join, Renewing ISTT Membership
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2012
Transgenic Animals meeting in Nantes, France, 7 June 2013
The International Society for Transgenic Technologies (ISTT) is happy to announce the co-sponsorship of the Transgenic Animals meeting that will be held in Nantes (France), on 7th June 2013, on “Technical advances in the generation of transgenic animals and in their applications“. This 1-day event will be the 2013 edition of a transgenic animal meeting that has been held, regularly, every two years, and to which the ISTT has already sponsored the two previous editions, held in 2009 and 2011. This 2013 edition is organized by ISTT Members Ignacio Anegon and Séverine Ménoret, with the help of additional members of the Organizing Committee: Séverine Rémy, Laurent Tesson, Claire Usal, Laure-Héléne Ouisse and Reynald Thynard. The following institutions are organizing and supporting this meeting: Transgenic rats common facility of SFR François Bonamy, Biogenouest and IBiSA. The scientific program of Nantes-2013 includes the following speakers:
- Bruce Whitelaw (The Roslin Institute and University of Edinburgh, UK), ISTT member
- Ralf Kühn (Institute for Developmental Genetics, Helmholtz Center Munich, Munich, Germany)
- Manfred Gossen (Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies-Charite, Berlin, Germany)
- Yann Herault (Institut Clinique de la Souris and IGBMC, Illkirch/Strasbourg, France), ISTT member
- Alexandre Simon (Inserm Transfert, Paris, France)
- Belén Pintado (Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, CSIC, Madrid, Spain), ISTT member
- Jean-Stephan Joly (INRA U1126, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France)
- Krzysztof Jagla (UMR CNRS 6293, Clermont-Ferrand, France)
- Emmanuelle Charpentier (Department “Regulation in Infection Biology”,Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Germany)
- Xiaoxia Cui (Sigma, St. Louis, USA), ISTT member
- Carine Giovannangeli (INSERM U 565-CNRS UMR 7196-TALGENE, Paris, France)
- Ignacio Anegon (INSERM UMR 1064-ITUN, Nantes, France)
ISTT members are entitled to a reduced-fee registration. Registration deadline:
25 May 2013.
Tags: ISTT co-sponsorisation, meeting, Nantes meeting, transgenic animals
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Monday, December 10th, 2012
The 12th Transgenic Technology Meeting (TT2014) will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, in October 2014. From the International Society for Transgenic Technologies (ISTT) it is our pleasure to first announce that he 12th Transgenic Technology Meeting (TT2014) will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, in October 2014. After China and the Asiatic continent, hosting the TT2013 meeting, the ISTT-family will visit Europe again. The venue for the TT2014 meeting and its allocation to Edinburgh have recently been decided by the ISTT council, after carefully considering all proposals presented. The TT2014 Meeting Organisation will be co-chaired by Peter Hohenstein (PI Researcher at the Roslin Institute, Edinburgh), Douglas Stratdhee (Head of Transgenic Technology at the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Glasgow) and Bruce Whitelaw (Professor of Animal Biotechnology at the Roslin Institute, Edinburgh, and Editor-in-Chief of Transgenic Research, Springer), all three active ISTT members. Three prestigious Scottish research institutions will be supporting the TT2014 meeting: The Roslin Institute/University of Edinburgh, The Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine/University of Edinburgh and The Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, in Glasgow. The exact dates for the TT2014 meeting, in October 2014, will be released soon.
All information regarding the TT2014 meeting will be published in its official meeting web site:
www.tt2014.org, and all messages, comments, requests, inquiries, suggestions can be sent to the official meeting email address:
tt2014@transtechsociety.org
Tags: Edinburgh, Scotland, transgenic techonology meetings, TT2014 meeting
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2012
Updated program for the TT2013 meeting and hands-on workshop in Guangzhou (China)
At the International Society for Transgenic Technologies (ISTT), we are pleased to release the most updated scientific, technical and social program for the TT2013 meeting and the associated hands-on workshop that will be held in Guangzhou (China), starting on February 25, 2013. The TT2013 meeting, organized by Ming Zhao and his colleagues of the Southern Medical University in Guangzhou, will begin on Sunday, February 24, with an optional pre-meeting dinner and cruise upon Pearl river, the already classical get-together style of kicking off the last TT meetings, where all participants are kindly invited to participate in order to gather, meet old friends and colleagues and get to know new ones, putting “names to faces” in our field.
The scientific part of the meeting will be held at the Baiyun International Convention Center, in Guangzhou, starting early on Monday, February 25, and will progress until Wednesday, February 27, in the afternoon. We have 33 scientific talks from invited guest speakers, with a wide range of topics in animal transgenesis, including those lectures corresponding to the 9th ISTT Prize (Allan Bradley, Hinxton, UK) and 2nd ISTT Young Investigator Award (Toru Takeo, Kumamoto, Japan), generously sponsored by genOway and inGenious Targeting Laboratory, respectively. We have also selected four short oral presentations among the many submitted abstracts sent to the TT2013 meeting. All accepted abstracts will be published in Transgenic Research (Springer), the scientific journal to which the ISTT is proud to be associated with.
Following the TT2013 meeting, and starting on Thursday, February 28, a 3-day hands-on workshop on basic microinjection and useful techniques in animal transgenesis will take place in Guangzhou, at the Sun Yat-sen University. The TT2013 workshop, limited to 30 participants, is organized by Wenhao Xu (University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA), Ming Zhao (Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China), Jing An (Cancer Institute, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China) and Liangping Li (Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China), who hosts the workshop in his institution.
We greatly thank the support from all the many companies and institutions that decided to sponsor the TT2013 meeting and the workshop.
Registration for the TT2013 meeting at reduced fees is still possible until November 30, 2012. Thereafter, standard registration will begin, until January 31, 2012. If you plan to attend the TT2013 meeting we kindly advise you to register as soon as possible, in order to benefit from cheaper registration fees. In addition, there are still a few slots available for the workshop. These will be filled according to first come/first serve scheme.
Looking forward to meeting you all in Guangzhou! Let’s enjoy another great Transgenic Technology meeting together!
Tags: China, Guangzhou, hands-on, TT2013, TT2013 meeting, Workshop
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