2025 Zebrafish Schedule
Thurs 24 Jul
2:00 91บฃฝวยายื 5:00 Student check-in (Swope)
6:00 91บฃฝวยายื 7:00 Dinner (Swope)
7:00 91บฃฝวยายื 7:15 Welcome to the Zebrafish Course: Tom Schilling & Andi Pauli (Speck Auditorium)
7:15 91บฃฝวยายื 8:15 Overview: Zebrafish Development and Genetics: Lila Solnica-Krezel (Speck Auditorium)
8:15 91บฃฝวยายื 9:15 Student 3-min oral presentations (Speck Auditorium)
9:30 91บฃฝวยายื 10:30 Set up posters and locate individual student stations in lab (Loeb 260)
Fri 25 Jul
8:30 91บฃฝวยายื 8:45 Welcome to the MBL: Linda Hyman, Director of Education (Loeb 260)
8:45 91บฃฝวยายื 9:15 Introduction to stereoscopes, iPad/camera & server: Dave Raible & Faculty (Loeb 260)
9:15 91บฃฝวยายื 12:00 Pit Talk & Lab: Zebrafish Development: Lila Solnica-Krezel & Dave Raible (Loeb 260)
12:00 91บฃฝวยายื 1:30 Faculty (Tom Schilling & Andi Pauli) lunch with students (Swope)
1:30 91บฃฝวยายื 2:30 Lab: Zebrafish Development, continued: Lila Solnica-Krezel & Dave Raible (Loeb 260)
2:30 91บฃฝวยายื 3:30 Lecture: Introduction to Microscopy: Andres Collazo (Loeb 260)
3:30 91บฃฝวยายื 6:00 Hands-on microscopy training: Andres Collazo, Jim Fadool, Dave Raible, & Tom Schilling (Loeb 260)
7:30 91บฃฝวยายื 9:00 Research Lectures & Discussion: Dave Raible & Lila Solnica-Krezel (Speck Auditorium)
9:00 91บฃฝวยายื 9:30 Follow up on embryos and wrap-up from morning session: Lila Solnica-Krezel
9:30 91บฃฝวยายื 11:00 91บฃฝวยายืDiSci91บฃฝวยายื (science discussions with speakers, faculty, and at posters)
Sat 26 Jul
8:30 91บฃฝวยายื 9:30 Pit Talk: Larval anatomy: Tom Schilling (Loeb 260)
9:30 91บฃฝวยายื 12:00 Lab: Larval anatomy tour with fluorescent transgenics: Andres Collazo, Jim Fadool, Dave Raible, & Tom Schilling (Loeb 260)
12:00 91บฃฝวยายื 1:30 Faculty (Dave Raible & Lila Solnica-Krezel) lunch with students (Swope)
1:30 91บฃฝวยายื 2:30 Workshop: Developmental Genetics: Mary Mullins (Candle House 104)
2:30 91บฃฝวยายื 3:30 Lecture: Light Sheet Microscopy: Jan Huisken (Speck Auditorium)
3:30 91บฃฝวยายื 4:30 Lab: imaging and mounting transgenics: Dave Raible, & Tom Schilling (Loeb 260)
4:30 91บฃฝวยายื 6:00 Time-lapse microscopy: Andres Collazo & Jim Fadool (Group 1)
4:30 91บฃฝวยายื 6:00 Time-lapse microscopy: Jan Huisken and Dane Maxfield (Group 4)
4:30 91บฃฝวยายื 6:00 Groups 2 and 3 work on T-shirt design
7:30 91บฃฝวยายื 9:00 Research Lectures & Discussion: Mary Mullins & Alex Schier (Speck Auditorium)
9:00 91บฃฝวยายื 11:00 91บฃฝวยายืDiSci91บฃฝวยายื (continued science discussions with speakers, faculty, and at posters)
Sun 27 Jul
8:30 91บฃฝวยายื 9:30 Wrap-up: Larval Anatomy: Tom Schilling & Dave Raible (Loeb 263)
9:30 91บฃฝวยายื 12:00 Pit Talk & Lab: Mounting, imaging, & analysis of mRNA and protein in embryos and larvae: Kara Cerveny & Fabienne Poulain (Loeb 260)
12:00 91บฃฝวยายื 1:30 Faculty (Jan Huisken & Alex Schier) lunch with students (Swope)
1:30 91บฃฝวยายื 4:00 Lab: Mounting, imaging, & analysis of mRNA and protein, including wrap up: Kara Cerveny & Fabienne Poulain (Loeb 260)
4:00 91บฃฝวยายื 5:00 Workshop: Testing Gene Function & Designer Genes: Mary Mullins (Candle House 104)
5:00 91บฃฝวยายื 6:00 Time-lapse microscopy: Andres Collazo & Jim Fadool (Group 2)
5:00 91บฃฝวยายื 6:00 Time-lapse microscopy: Jan Huisken and Dane Maxfield (Group 3)
5:00 91บฃฝวยายื 6:00 Groups 1 and 4 work on T-shirt design
7:30 91บฃฝวยายื 9:00 Research Lectures & Discussion: Maura McGrail & Becky Burdine (Speck Auditorium)
9:00 91บฃฝวยายื 11:00 91บฃฝวยายืDiSci91บฃฝวยายื (continued w speakers and all faculty present) + T shirt design
Mon 28 Jul
8:30 91บฃฝวยายื 12:00 Pit Talk & Lab: mRNA and CRISPR injections: Andi Pauli & Becky Burdine (Loeb 260)
12:00 91บฃฝวยายื 1:30 Faculty (Mary Mullins & Fabienne Poulain) lunch with students (Swope)
1:30 91บฃฝวยายื 3:30 Workshop: Zebrafish Genome Literacy: Maura McGrail (Bay Reading Room in Lillie)
3:30 91บฃฝวยายื 4:30 Workshop: When should I (not) use zebrafish as a model?: Alex Schier (Loeb 263)
4:30 91บฃฝวยายื 6:00 Time-lapse microscopy: Andres Collazo & Jim Fadool (Group 3)
4:30 91บฃฝวยายื 6:00 Time-lapse microscopy: Jan Huisken and Dane Maxfield (Group 1)
4:30 91บฃฝวยายื 6:00 Groups 2 and 4 work on T-shirt design
7:30 91บฃฝวยายื 9:00 Research Lectures & Discussion: Holger Knaut & Fabienne Poulain (Speck Auditorium)
9:00 91บฃฝวยายื 9:45 Wrap-up mRNA injected embryos: Andi Pauli & Becky Burdine (Loeb 260); start 2 time-lapses with germline-labelled or fluorescently injected embryos
9:45 91บฃฝวยายื 11:00 91บฃฝวยายืDiSci91บฃฝวยายื (continued w speakers and all faculty present)
11:00 T-shirt design is due by 11:00 pm on July 28
Tues 29 Jul
8:30 91บฃฝวยายื 12:00 Pit Talk & Lab: Morpholino & CRISPR injections: Andi Pauli, Becky Burdine, & Holger Knaut (Loeb 260)
11:00 91บฃฝวยายื 12:00 Needle pulling demo: Adair Oesterle (Sutter Instruments) (Loeb 260)
12:00 91บฃฝวยายื 1:30 Faculty (Maura McGrail & Becky Burdine) lunch with students (Swope)
1:30 91บฃฝวยายื 4:00 Workshop: CRISPR Design: Maura McGrail (Bay Reading Room in Lillie)
4:00 91บฃฝวยายื 5:30 Workshop: Single-cell and Spatial Transcriptomics: Alex Schier (Candle House 104)
5:30 91บฃฝวยายื 6:00 Check on mRNA injected embryos: Andi Pauli & Becky Burdine (Loeb 260)
6:30 91บฃฝวยายื 7:30 Student/Faculty Challenge: Scavenger Hunt
7:30 91บฃฝวยายื 10:00 Course BBQ (Loeb Quad)
10:00 91บฃฝวยายื 11:30 Time-lapse microscopy: Andres Collazo & Jim Fadool (Group 4) (with Martin Distel91บฃฝวยายืs 36 hpf larvae, and any good ones from the morning91บฃฝวยายืs injected larvae)
10:00 91บฃฝวยายื 11:30 Time-lapse microscopy: Jan Huisken and Dane Maxfield (Group 2) (with Martin Distel91บฃฝวยายืs 36 hpf larvae and any good ones from the morning91บฃฝวยายืs injected larvae)
Wed 30 Jul
8:30 91บฃฝวยายื 12:00 Pit Talk & Lab: Adult dissections & tissue regeneration: Ken Poss (Loeb 260)
12:00 91บฃฝวยายื 1:30 Faculty (Ken Poss and Holger Knaut) lunch with students (Swope)
1:30 91บฃฝวยายื 5:00 Pit talk & Lab: Disease models: Martin Distel (Loeb 260)
6:00 91บฃฝวยายื 7:00 Faculty Meeting (Memorial Circle)
7:00 91บฃฝวยายื 10:00 Faculty & Staff Event; Student self-organized social time and/or assembly of images
Thurs 31 Jul
9:00 91บฃฝวยายื 10:30 Workshop: Zebrafish in Education: Roshan Jain, Pierre Le Pabic, & Kara Cerveny (Loeb 263)
10:30 91บฃฝวยายื 12:00 Pit Talk: Chimeric Analysis: Tom Schilling, Holger Knaut, & Jim Fadool (Loeb 260)
12:00 91บฃฝวยายื 1:30 Faculty (Martin Distel) lunch with students (Swope)
1:30 91บฃฝวยายื 6:00 Lab: Chimeric analysis 91บฃฝวยายื Blastula transplants: Andreas Collazo, Jim Fadool, Holger Knaut, & Tom Schilling (Loeb 260)
7:30 91บฃฝวยายื 9:00 Research Lectures & Discussion: The Ruth Sager Lectures in Genetics: Martin Distel & Kara Cerveny (Speck Auditorium)
9:00 91บฃฝวยายื 11:00 91บฃฝวยายืDiSci91บฃฝวยายื (continued w speakers and all faculty present)
Fri 1 Aug
***Work on photo contest entries during 91บฃฝวยายืfree time91บฃฝวยายื today***
9:30 91บฃฝวยายื 12:00 Lab: Imaging transplants: Andres Collazo, Jim Fadool, Holger Knaut, & Tom Schilling (Loeb 260)
9:30 91บฃฝวยายื 10:30 Tour of the MBL Marine Resource Center (Groups 3 and 4)
12:00 91บฃฝวยายื 1/1:30 Faculty (Kara Cerveny & Andres Collazo) lunch with students (Swope) (Groups 1 and 2: lunch till 1pm)
1/1:30 91บฃฝวยายื 3:30 Lab: Disease modeling follow up: Martin Distel (Loeb 260) (Groups 1 and 2: start at 1; Groups 3 and 4: start at 1:30)
2:30 91บฃฝวยายื 3:30 Tour of the MBL Marine Resource Center (Groups 1 and 2)
3:30 91บฃฝวยายื 4:30 Review of time-lapses (Groups 1, 2, 3, 4): Jim Fadool, Andres Collazo, & Jan Huisken (Candle House 104)
4:45 91บฃฝวยายื 5:30 Research Lecture & Discussion: Ken Poss (Speck Auditorium)
7:00 91บฃฝวยายื 8:00 MBL Friday evening lecture (Clapp Auditorium) 91บฃฝวยายืNo Ordinary Vampire Fish: Insights from Sea Lampreys on Neuroscience and Human Health91บฃฝวยายื (Jennifer Morgan, MBL Senior Scientist and Director of the Bell Center
9:00 91บฃฝวยายื 11:00 91บฃฝวยายืDiSci91บฃฝวยายื (continued w speakers and all faculty present)
9:30 91บฃฝวยายื 11:00 Additional imaging of transplants; assembly of images for transplant wrap-up
Sat 2 Aug
***Work on photo contest entries during 91บฃฝวยายืfree time91บฃฝวยายื today***
10:00-10:30 Wrap-up: Disease modeling (Martin Distel) (Clapp auditorium)
10:30 91บฃฝวยายื 12:00 Workshop: Disease modeling: Martin Distel (Clapp auditorium)
12:00 91บฃฝวยายื 1:30 Faculty (Kristen Kwan & Pierre Le Pabic) lunch with students (Swope)
1:30 91บฃฝวยายื 6:00 Lab: Cardiac surgeries, Imaging of regenerating fin and heart: Ken Poss (Loeb 260)
7:30 91บฃฝวยายื 9:00 Research Lectures & Discussion: Harry Burgess & Kristen Kwan (Speck Auditorium)
9:00 91บฃฝวยายื 11:00 91บฃฝวยายืDiSci91บฃฝวยายื (continued w speakers and all faculty present)
9:30 91บฃฝวยายื 11:00 Free Time prep for wrap up
Sun 3 Aug
***Work on photo contest entries during 91บฃฝวยายืfree time91บฃฝวยายื today***
8:30 91บฃฝวยายื 10:00 Wrap-up: Chimeric analysis student presentations: Andres Collazo, Jim Fadool, Holger Knaut, & Tom Schilling (MRC 210)
10:00 91บฃฝวยายื11:30 Pit Talk: Monitoring morphogenesis: Analysis of morphogenesis in 3D and 4D: Kristen Kwan (Loeb 260)
11:30 91บฃฝวยายื 1:00 Faculty (Roshan Jain & Harry Burgess) lunch with students (Swope)
1:00 91บฃฝวยายื 4:00 Lab: Monitoring morphogenesis: Kristen Kwan (Loeb 260)
4:00 91บฃฝวยายื 5:00 Wrap-up of Monitoring morphogenesis: Kristen Kwan (Loeb 260)
5:00 91บฃฝวยายื 6:30 Workshop: Responsible conduct of research: Tom Schilling & Andi Pauli (Candle House 104)
7:30 91บฃฝวยายื 9:00 Chi-Bin Chien Memorial Research Lecture: Katie Drerup (Speck Auditorium), followed by reception (Tent in Loeb Quad)
10:00 Stony Beach evening quiet field trip to see bioluminescence (weather permitting)
Mon 4 Aug
***Work on five-minute student presentations of favorite data during 91บฃฝวยายืfree time91บฃฝวยายื today***
8:30 91บฃฝวยายื 9:30 Pit Talk: Behavior: Harry Burgess & Jim Fadool (Loeb 260)
9:30 91บฃฝวยายื 12:00 Lab: Behavior: Harry Burgess & Jim Fadool (Loeb 260)
12:00 91บฃฝวยายื 1:30 Faculty (Katie Drerup) lunch with students (Swope)
1:30 Photo contest images (individual & group entries) due by 1:30 pm
1:30 91บฃฝวยายื 4:00 Lab, continued: Behavior: Harry Burgess & Jim Fadool (Loeb 260)
4:00 91บฃฝวยายื 5:00 Wrap-up of Behavior: Harry Burgess & Jim Fadool (Loeb 260)
5:00 91บฃฝวยายื 6:00 Workshop: Transgenesis: Sarah Kucenas (Candle House 104)
7:30 91บฃฝวยายื 9:00 Research Lectures & Discussion: Sarah Kucenas & Jim Fadool (Speck Auditorium)
9:00 91บฃฝวยายื 11:00 91บฃฝวยายืDiSci91บฃฝวยายื (continued w speakers and all faculty present)
10:00 Stony Beach evening quiet field trip to see bioluminescence (weather backup)
Tues 5 Aug
***Work on five-minute student presentations of favorite data during 91บฃฝวยายืfree time91บฃฝวยายื today***
8:30 91บฃฝวยายื 9:30 Pit Talk: Optical Manipulation: Sarah Kucenas & Harry Burgess (Loeb 260)
9:30 91บฃฝวยายื 12:30 Lab Rotations: Ablation/Axotomy & Optogenetics: Sarah Kucenas & Harry Burgess (Loeb 260)
12:30 91บฃฝวยายื 1:30 Faculty (Sarah Kucenas & Jim Fadool) lunch with students (Swope)
1:30 91บฃฝวยายื 3:30 Lab Rotations: Ablation/Axotomy & Optogenetics: Sarah Kucenas & Harry Burgess (Loeb 260) AND Fish facility tours with aquaculture vendors
3:30 91บฃฝวยายื 4:30 Tea time with aquaculture vendors (Tent in Loeb Quad)
4:30 91บฃฝวยายื 6:00 Work on 5-min presentations/free time
7:30 91บฃฝวยายื 9:00 Research Lectures & Discussion: Andi Pauli & Tom Schilling (Speck Auditorium)
9:00 91บฃฝวยายื 9:30 91บฃฝวยายืDiSci91บฃฝวยายื (continued w speakers and all faculty present)
9:30 91บฃฝวยายื 10:30 Follow up on Ablation/Axotomy & Optogenetics: Sarah Kucenas & Harry Burgess (Candle House 104)
10:30 91บฃฝวยายื 11 Finish work on five-minute student presentations of favorite data
11:00 Late-breaking photo contest images due by 11:00 pm
Wed 6 Aug
9:00 91บฃฝวยายื 10:30 Lab: In vitro fertilization: April Freeman & Andi Pauli (Loeb 260)
10:30 91บฃฝวยายื 12:00 Workshop: Zebrafish Husbandry, Breeding and Shipping: April Freeman (Loeb 260)
12:00 91บฃฝวยายื 1:30 Lunch (Swope)
1:30 91บฃฝวยายื 3:30 Five-minute student presentations of favorite data (Candle House 104)
3:30 91บฃฝวยายื 5:00 Course Wrap-up Discussion: Tom Schilling & Andi Pauli (Tent in Loeb Quad)
5:00 91บฃฝวยายื 5:15 Course Photo #1; wear course t-shirt (Loeb Courtyard)
6:00 91บฃฝวยายื 10:00 Course Dinner and Student Awards with Course Photo #2 at 6:30 pm (Swope Lower Terrace)
Thurs 7 Aug
Breakfast, room checkout and departure