
The organization of the 11th Transgenic Technology meeting (the TT2013 meeting), to be held in Guangzhou, PR China, on February 25-27, 2013, is progressing well. Prof. Ming Zhao (Southern Medical University in Guangzhou), Chair of the TT2013 Organization, and all his colleagues in the various advisory and supporting committees, are doing a great job and, hence, from the International Society for Transgenic Technologies (ISTT) we are sure that the TT2013 meeting is going to be yet another great transgenic conference for all of us to learn, discuss and enjoy. The preliminary TT2013 meeting web page already informs about the confirmed topics and speakers that will be in Guangzhou. These will be regularly updated as we receive the confirmations from all invited speakers. Registration is expected to be open in June. The registration scheme and registration fees will be similar to the previous TT2011 meeting. The TT2013 meeting will be followed by a 3-day practical hands-on course on basic techniques in transgenesis, coordinated by Dr. Wenhao Xu (University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA).
Currently, the confirmed topics and speakers attending the TT2013 meeting include:
- Sperm Cryopreservation and IVF
- KOMP ES cell clones performance
- Epigenetics and Transgenesis
- Effects of in vitro culture on mammalian embryos
- Targeted nucleases, ZFNs and TALENs, in transgenesis
- Transgenic pigs and TALENs
- Transgenic mice and ZFNs
- KO pigs and ZFNs
- Zebrafish and TALENs
- Ethics, animal welfare and regulations
- Health monitoring protocols and transgenic facilities
- Non-rodent transgenesis
- Primate chimeras and ES cells
- Rat functional genomic initiatives
- Animal models of human diseases
- ES and iPS cells
- transposon (PiggyBac)-mediated mutagenesis
- Round-table discussion: Running a transgenic facility
- Running a transgenic facility: The business aspect of running a transgenic unit
- Running a transgenic facility: managing errors, difficulties
- Running a transgenic facility: Staying on the cutting edge of technology while still maintaining basic services
- Rat/mouse chimeras and iPS/ES cells
- Overview of cre-transgenic mouse lines resources
- China/Asia/Oceania in the International Mouse Functional Genomics Consortia
- 3-days hands-on practical workshop on transgenesis procedures after the TT2013 meeting
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- Allan Bradley (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton/Cambridge, UK)
- Alan Colman (Institute of Medical Biology, Singapore)
- Scott Fahrenkrug (Recombinetics, Minneapolis, MN, USA)
- Malcolm France (Sydney University, 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)
- Dietmar Kappes (Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA)
- Liangxue Lai (Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Science, Guangzhou, PR China)
- Kent Lloyd (University of California, Davis, CA, 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)
- Ling Sun (Institute of Developmental Biology and Molecular Medicine, Fudan University, 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)
From the ISTT, as in previous TT meetings, we will also promote and support the participation of ISTT members by sponsoring several registration awards for ISTT Members. Deadline for submitting applications for these ISTT Registration Awards is October 15, 2012. Instructions to apply can be found at the corresponding web page of the ISTT web site.
Please, write down the dates of the TT2013 meeting: February 25-27, 2013, and make sure you don’t miss this conference!. See you all in China next year!