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Preliminary agenda

The TT2008 meeting program is tentative and will be updated regularly.  Note that Registration is now closed.

 

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2008
All day	Trip to the Niagara Falls and the wine dirstrict	Not included in the registration fee
20.00	Pre-conference dinner	Not included in the registration fee

 

 

MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2008
8.30 - 10.30	Registration - pickup name badges and conference materials. Poster set-up. Coffee.
10.30 - 11.00	Welcome address - Andras Nagy, Lluis Montoliu & Kristina Vintersten
11.00 - 11.30	Memoriam - Anne McLaren and Charles Babinet
Session I: Stem cells and early embryos Chair: Brigid Hogan
11.30 - 12.00	Janet Rossant, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto	Stem cells and early mammalian development
12.00 - 12.30	Davor Solter, Institute of Medical Biology, Singapore	Molecular controls of oocyte to embryo transition
12.30 - 13.00	Andrzej Tarkowski, University of Warsaw	Mouse chimeras - past and present
13.00 - 13.30	Derek van der Kooy, University of Toronto	Using transgenics to discover the in vivo source and migration of somatic stem cells
13.30 - 14.45	Lunch
Session II: The ISTT Prize on Transgenic Technologies, spnsored by genOway Chair: Lluis Montoliu
14.45 -15.00	Lluis Montoliu	Presenation of the ISTT prize winner
15.00 - 15.45	Brigid Hogan, ISTT Prize winner, Duke University, Durham	Lung development and repair: insights from transgenic mice.
15.45 - 17.00	Social get-together with snacks
17.00 - 19.00	Poster session

 

 

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2008
8.00 - 9.00	Breakfast
Session III: Basic techniques Chair: Robin Lovell-Badge
9.00 - 9.20	Elizabeth Williams, University of Queensland, Brisbane	Embryo transfer, vasectomy and ceasarean section
9.20 - 9.40	Sagrario Ortega, CNIO, Biotechnology Program, Madrid	ES cell culture and derivation
9.40 - 10.00	Johannes Wilbertz, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm	Pronuclear and blastocyst injection
10.00 - 10.20	Lluis Montoliu, National Centre of Biotechnology, Madrid	Artificial chromosome-type transgenes
10.20 - 10.50	Roundtable discussions
11.00 - 11.30	Coffee break
Session IV: Running a transgenic unit Chair: Boris Jerchow
11.30 - 11.50	Caiying Guo, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Farm	The Transgenic unit at Janelia Farm Research Campus
11.50 - 12.10	Marina Gertsenstein, Toronto Centre for Phenogenomics, Toronto	The Transgenic Core and Specialty Resources at TCP
12.10 - 12.30	Elizabeth Williams, University of Queensland, Brisbane	The Transgenic unit at University of Queensland in Brisbane
12.30 - 13.00	Roundtable discussions
13.00 - 14.00	Lunch
Session V: High throughput production of mutant mice Chair: Philippe Soriano
14.00 - 14.30	Geoff Hicks, Manitoba Institute of Cell Biology, Winnipeg	The international Mouse Knockout Project
14.30 - 15.00	Ann Flenniken, Mount Sinai Hospital, SLRI, Toronto	Using ENU Mutagenesis to Create Mouse Models of Human Disease
15.00 - 15.30	Elizabeth Simpson, University of British Columbia, Vancouver	Pleiades Promoter Project: New Tools for Promoter and Expression Analysis Employing Knock-ins at Hprt1
15.30 - 15.45 15.45 - 16.00	Selected oral presentations Caiying Guo, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Farm Thomas Saunders, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	ES Cell Targeting Efficiency with Constructs made by the Recombineering Method Integration, Expression, and Efficiency in Mouse Bacterial Artificial Chromosome Transgenesis
16.00 - 16.30	Coffee break
Session VI: Cutting edge transgenic technologies Chair: Johannes Wilbertz
16.30 - 17.00	Robin Lovell-Badge, National Institute for Medical Research, London	Transgenic technology and stem cell research
17.00 - 17.30	Philippe Soriano, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA	Mouse genetics to dissect growth factor signaling pathways
17.30 - 18.00	Gordon Keller, McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Toronto	Lineage specific differentiation of embryonic stem cells
18.00 - 18.30	Andras Nagy, Mount Sinai Hospital, SLRI, Toronto	Recent developments in transgenic technologies
18.30 - 19.30	ISTT General Assembly	ISTT members only
20.00	Conference Gala dinner

 

 

WEDSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2008
8.00 - 9.00	Breakfast
Session VII: Phenotyping Chair: Elizabeth Simpson
9.00 - 9.30	Mark Henkelman, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto	Imaging for Mouse Phenotyping
9.30 - 10.00	Lee Adamson, Mount Sinai Hospital, SLRI, Toronto	Evaluation of cardiovascular phenotypes in mice
10.00 - 10.30	Colin McKerlie, Toronto Centre for Phenogenomics, Toronto	The Toronto Centre for Phenogenomics; Innovation in facility design, equipment, technologies and research services to enable the best transgenic science
10.30 - 10.45 10.45 - 11.00	Selected poster - oral presentation Junji Tekada, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan Simon Pierre Demers, Universite de Montreal, Canada	Comprehensive production of a bi-allelically mutated ES cell bank In vivo and in vitro multipotency of transgenic rat embryonic stem like (ES-like) cells: Another step closer to knockout rats?
11.00 - 11.30	Coffee break
Closing session Chair: Lluis Montoliu
11.30 - 11.45	Thomas Fielder, University of California, Irvine	Transgenic facilities survery
11.45 - 12.00	Boris Jerchow, Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin	Introduction of TT2010
12.00 - 12.30	TT2008 organizers	ISTT travel awards, TT2008 poster awards, vendor show lottery and closing remarks
12.30 - 13.30	Lunch
13.30 - 15.00	TCA course introduction
	Andras Nagy, Mount Sinai Hospital, SLRI, Toronto	Tetraploid complementation assay - the theoryCompulsory for the TCA course participants, but all interested are welcome to attend
16.00 - 18.00	MGI bioinformatics workshop	Only for specifically registered workshop participants

 

THURSDAY OCTOBER 30 - FRIDAY OCTOBER 31, 2008
Course on Tetraploid complementation assay	Toronto Centre for Phenogenomics

 

 

 

Last updated Oct 16, 2008