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The scientific and zebrafish transgenesis hands-on workshop programmes prepared for the 12th Transgenic Technology (TT2014) meeting, to be held in Edinburgh (Scotland, UK), on October 6-8 (workshop on October 8-10) 2014, have been recently updated by the Organizers, chaired by Douglas Strathdee (Glasgow, UK). These rewarding updates further increased the already high quality and interest for this popular conference series, promoted from the International Society for Transgenic Technologies (ISTT), the most important forum where to discuss the state-of-art of animal transgenic technology, to share new developments, to review the deployment of the new methods that have recently being devised and, in summary, an excellent arena where to easily meet, face-to-face, the most relevant key-players in the field while providing a wonderful excuse to gather and ex-change experiences with the entire ISTT family of members.

The updated list of confirmed invited speakers attending the TT2014 meeting (6-8 October 2014) includes:

• David Adams, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
• Ignacio Anegon, Center for Research in Transplantation and Immunology, Nantes, France
• James Bussell, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
• Ian Chalmers, MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, The University of Edinburgh, UK
• Stephen Ekker, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
• Anna-Katerina Hadjatonakis, Developmental Biology Program, Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, USA
• Peter Hohenstein, The Roslin Institute and Royal Dick School of Vetinary Studies & MRC IGMM, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Rudolf Jaenisch, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Nine Cambridge Center Cambridge, USA
• Jos Jonkers, Division of Molecular Pathology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Keith Joung, Molecular Pathology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA
• Alexandra Joyner, Developmental Biology Program, Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, USA
• Koichi Kawakami, Division of Molecular and Developmental Biology, National Institute of Genetics, Shizuoka, Japan
• Michael McGrew, Division of Developmental Biology, The Roslin Institute and Royal Dick School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Daniel J Murphy, Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, University of Glasgow, UK
• James Murray, Department of Animal Science and Department of Population Health and Reproduction, University of California, Davis, California, USA
• Stephen Murray, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, USA
• Lluis Montoliu, ISTT President, Organising Committee, National Center of Biotechnology (CNB), CSIC, Madrid, Spain
• Vasilis Ntziachristos, Technische Universität Mu?nchen, Munich, Germany
• Elizabeth Patton, MRC Human Genetics Unit & MRC IGMM, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Pawel Pelczar, Institute of Laboratory Animal Science, Zürich, Switzerland
• Jan-Bas Prins, Leiden University Medical Centre, The Netherlands
• Janet Rossant, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (ISTT Prize)
• Angelika Schnieke, Livestock Biotechnology, WZW Center of Life Science, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany
• Kai Schönig, Central Institute of Mental Health, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
• William Skarnes, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
• Austin Smith, Wellcome Trust-Medical Research Council Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
• Francis Stewart, Biotechnology Center of the TU Dresden, Germany
• Sara Wells, MRC Harwell, Oxfordshire, UK
• Jacqueline White, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge UK

The updated list of confirmed invited speakers & instructors attending the hands-on zebrafish transgenesis workshop taking place immediately after the TT2014 meeting (8-10 October 2014) includes:

• Liz Patton, MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, The University of Edinburgh
• Carl Tucker, Biomedical Research Resources, The University of Edinburgh
• Tim Czopka, Centre for Neuroregeneration, The University of Edinburgh
• Koichi Kawakami, Division of Molecular and Developmental Biology, National Institute of Genetics, Shizuoka, Japan
• Stephen Ekker, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
• Keith Joung, Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
• Henry Roehl, Department of Biomedical Science, The University of Sheffield
• Robert Kelsh, Centre for Regenerative Medicine and Department of Biology and Biochemistry, The University of Bath
• Martin Denvir, The University of Edinburgh/British Heart Foundation Centre for Cardiovascular Science, The University of Edinburgh
• David Lyons, Centre for Neuroregeneration, The University of Edinburgh
• Dirk Seiger, Centre for Neuroregeneration, The University of Edinburgh
• Karthikeyani Paranthaman, MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, The University of Edinburgh

Abstracts: All TT2014 participants are encouraged to submit their work as an abstract for poster presentation at the TT2014 meeting. Abstracts should be submitted no later than June 30, 2014. Accepted abstracts will be published in the scientific journal Transgenic Research (Springer), to which the ISTT is associated. A limited number of abstract submissions will be selected and invited to present their findings in the form of a short oral presentation within the main meeting program. Abstracts are invited on all aspects of Transgenic Technologies, including the conference themes as listed below:

• New technologies in animal transgenesis
• Embryo stem cells
• Target nucleases or Editing nucleases (ZFNs, TALENs, CRISPRs)
• Large-scale phenotyping
• Animal Biotechnology
• Imaging with transgenic animals
• Mouse models of human disease
• Zebrafish models of human disease and transgenesis
• Animal ethics and welfare

Registration for both the TT2014 meeting and the zebrafish transgenesis workshop are OPEN. Registration for the TT2014 meetings starts at 265 UK Pounds for technician/student ISTT members and progressively increases for the rest of categories of delegates. ISTT members are always entitled to reduced registration fees. Registration for the zebrafish transgenesis workshop is independent, with an extra cost of 275 UK Pounds , and only open to delegates that have also registered to attend the TT2014 meeting. The early bird reduced registration fees are operative until July 31, 2014. Thereafter, registration will be progressively become more expensive. Hence, please register by July 31, 2014 to benefit from reduced registration fees.

ISTT Registration Awards: Application to ISTT registration awards for the TT2014 meeting is OPEN. A minimum of six registration awards for ISTT members will be sponsored by the International Society for Transgenic Technologies (ISTT). Applications should be sent, along with the registration confirmation and the requested additional documents to istt@transtechsociety.org by June 30, 2014. The ISTT will pay the Registration Fee of all applicants selected for an award. Please note that applicants not selected for an award are required to pay the coresponding registration fee. Please note the Award covers registration fees and attendance at all social events, however, does not cover travel, accommodation expenses or attendance at pre meeting events. Award decisions will be communicated by July 15, 2014 and awardees will receive a diploma at the TT2014 Meeting. Deadline for submitting application for ISTT Registration Awards for TT2014: 30 June 2014. Registration Award decisions will be communicated by 15 July 2014.

Looking forward to meeting you all in Edinburgh!