2nd Strategical Meeting for Medaka Research
Meeting - Seville, Spain
The medaka community has grown steadily in Europe, USA and Japan, and a number of young groups have recently selected this teleost as a model system. Despite these advances, there is a clear perception among medaka researchers that the model is at an important crossroad. The emergence during the last years of significant methodological breakthroughs including advanced deep-sequencing technologies, epigenomics, quantitative imaging and genome-editing technologies, impel the community to think deeply on long-term collective strategies. Medaka groups constitute a still disperse community and hence an effort to increase the level of international collaborations is necessary. In an attempt to increase the international visibility of the model and to foster internal collaborations, the “1st Strategic Meeting for Medaka Research” was organized in Japan in 2011. This successful meeting was attended by a hundred participants, mostly PIs, and definitely contributed to strength bounds among medaka scientists. However, to orient individual efforts towards common and updated strategies, it is now time to organize an open workshop (i.e. including group leaders, postdoctorals and advanced PhD students) for the first time in Europe. Medaka researchers perceive this urgent need and, not surprisingly, most of the colleagues contacted (H≈80%) have already confirmed their attendance.
(Courtesy of Spanish Research Council (CSIC) museum “Casa de la Ciencia", via www.shigen.nig.ac.jp)
For more information, please visit: http://www.shigen.nig.ac.jp/medaka/meeting/index.html
April 10-12, 2014
Casa de la Ciencia, Seville, Spain
Contact information: Juan Ramon Martinez Morales
CABD.(CSIC/UPO/JA)
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