The TT2010 meeting is over. More than 460 registered participants (about half of them members of ISTT) attended the past 9th Transgenic Technology meeting, organized by the ISTT, at the MDC, in Berlin-Buch, Germany. The conference itself (March 22-24) was followed by two dedicated workshops on “Colony Management Database Solutions” (March 25) and a practical “Hands-on” course on basic techniques in animal transgenesis (March 25-26). Prof. A. Francis Stewart was awarded the 7th ISTT Prize, sponsored by genOway, for his outstanding contributions in the field of transgenic technologies. He delivered a delightful talk on his work on site-specific recombinases and recombineering over the past 20 years, delineating all the tools his lab has been providing to the scientific comunity that have become central for most post-genomic era applications.
Boris Jerchow, Chair of the TT2010 Organizing Committee, and his team must be congratulated for all their dedication and hard work over the past months that resulted in a lively and enjoyable meeting. The conference was full of discussions and, thanks to the careful talks prepared by all invited speakers, everybody could learn many different aspects of animal transgenesis at different levels, from basic technical or fundamental issues, to more ellaborated and sophysticated scientific applications. Berlin was a great venue for the TT2010 meeting. Such a cosmopolitan city, rich in history, events and locations, was a wonderful complement for social and cultural sightseeing besides the scientific and technical expectations of the TT2010 meeting itself.
Now the TT2010 meeting is over. But ISTT has already started preparing the next forthcoming TT meeting, TT2011, that will be held on October 24-26, 2011, in Miami (Florida, USA), organized by Peter Sobieszczuk and Thom Saunders. All information regarding the TT2011 meeting will be available at the official web site.
