January 20, 2012. The International Society for Transgenic Technologies (ISTT) is pleased to announce the Organizing and Advisory Committees established for the next Transgenic Technology meeting, TT2013, which will be held at the Baiyun International Convention Center (BICC), in Guangzhou, PR China, on February 25-27, 2013, organized by Prof. Ming Zhao (Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, PR China). A 3-day hands-on practical workshop on fundamental and specialized techniques in animal transgenesis will follow, after the TT2013 meeting, on February 28-March 2, 2013. Read more...

January 18, 2012. Today, the International Society for Transgenic Technologies (ISTT) is six years old. We started to discuss the idea of founding this Society shortly after the 6th Transgenic Technology meeting (TT2005), held in Barcelona in September 2005, and, thereafter, it took us only a couple of months, with the great help of a few highly devoted and generous people, to find out what was required and, eventually, to register the Society in a country, Spain, at the International level. The official registration took place on January 18th, 2006, exactly six years ago. Read more...

January 12, 2012. The International Society for Transgenic Technology (ISTT) is most pleased to announce the co-sponsorship of the 2012 Edition of the popular training Course on Managing Mouse Colonies: Genetics, Breeding & Welfare, organized as a collaborative effort by four institutions: MRC Harwell, the Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, the RSPCA Transgenic Training Working Group (TTWG) and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. The course will be held at the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK, on June 6-8 June 2012. Registration deadline: 29 February 2012. ISTT members are entitled to a reduced registration fee. Read more...

January 9, 2012. In about two weeks, the International Society for Transgenic Technologies (ISTT) is co-sponsoring the I International Scientific Meeting for the Optimization of Murine Models in Research and III Practical Course CECs: Mouse sperm freezing according to JAX method, which will be held at the Centro de Estudios Científicos (CECs), Valdivia, Chile 24-27 January 2012. Read more...

January 1, 2012. The International Society for Transgenic Technologies (ISTT) wishes you all a happy new year and all the best for 2012. Like every beginning of the year the renewal period for ISTT memberships is open. Please visit the join/renew page and follow the instructions therein. You may wish to download a year 2012 ISTT wall Calendar, created with free web resources. ISTT Members are entitled to a monthly calendar for 2012 with images from St. Pete Beach, Florida, where we held our last TT2011 meeting. Looking forward to receive and process all your renewals requests and registrations!. Thanks for your continuous support to the ISTT. Read more...

December 30, 2011. The second edition of the International Course on “Genetics of Laboratory Rodents” was held at the Institut Pasteur-Montevideo, Uruguay, from December 5 to 14, 2011, with the co-sponsorization of the International Society for Transgenic Technologies (ISTT). This course was organized by Martina Crispo, DVM – Head of the Transgenic and Experimental Animal Unit – Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Uruguay, and ISTT Member, and co-organized by Jean Jacques Panthier, PhD – Unité de Genetique Fonctionelle de la Souris – Institut Pasteur, France. The teaching team was composed by Scientists from the Institut Pasteur in Paris and Montevideo as well as other regional and international institutions, who are familiar with the topics, including several ISTT Members (Jean Jaubert, Fernando Benavides, Ignacio Anegon). Read more...

December 22, 2011. The International Society for Transgenic Technologies (ISTT) wishes all of you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!. The 2011 ISTT Christmas Postcard prepared this year uses a wonderful chimeric mouse picture, obtained by Benoît Kanzler (Freiburg, Germany), almost brought back to life, while Seasonal Greetings are displayed using most of the languages currently used in the 40 countries of origin where our ISTT members work, world-wide. Read more...

December 21, 2011. Today, December 21st, 2011, the historical transgenic-list (tg-l), created by Peter Sobieszczuk more than 15 years ago, in July, 1996, has been moved and successfully transferred to its new home at the ISTT web server, following the agreement signed on September 30th, 2011, between Peter and the ISTT. All current subscribers have been transferred automatically and they will be able to continue using and enjoying this useful resource within the field of transgenic animals. Read more...

December 3, 2011. The TRAC 12:Transgenic Technology: Methods and Application Course is a four-day Biotechnology Training Courses at the National Institutes of Health that will be held on January 9-12, 2012. According to its web site: “This lecture/laboratory demonstration course is intended for those who wish to develop a strong background in transgenic techniques and applications. Read more...

November 12, 2011. Martina Crispo, Head of the Transgenic and Experimental Animal Unit of the Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Uruguay and ISTT Member, along with Jean-Jacques Panthier (Inst. Pasteur, Paris) organize the 2011 Course on “Genetics of Laboratory Rodents“, that will be held at the Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Uruguay, on December 5-14. This course is co-sponsored by the International Society for Transgenic Technologies (ISTT). Read more...

November 9, 2011. In November 2010, on the occasion of the first Basel conference “Research at a Crossroads“, more than 80 life science researchers from Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, France and Great Britain addressed the problems of animal research and adopted the “Basel Declaration“. The Declaration marks an unprecedented effort of the scientific community towards more trust, transparency and communication on animal research. Read more...

November 5, 2011. The International Society for Transgenic Technologies (ISTT) wants you!. If you are a member of the ISTT, your ideas, suggestions, proposals for helping us running the Society are most welcome. At the ISTT Council, one of our fundamental aims is our committment to always increase the benefits of our ISTT membership, as much as reasonably possible, according to the ISTT funds. ISTT support can be used to co-sponsor meetings, workshops, courses, seminars and any other event related to the generation and the analysis of genetically-modified animals. Read more...

November 1st, 2011. At the most recent 10th Transgenic Technology (TT2011) meeting we launched a promotion for new ISTT members that will remain valid until the end of the year. All new members registering from now until the end of 2011 will be granted immediate ISTT membership and their paid annual fee will be used for 2012, therefore qualifying for two additional free months in 2011 of ISTT membership. Furthermore, the ISTT General Assembly approved a reduction of the Technician/Student ISTT annual membership fees, from 35 to 25 Euros. Read more...

October 28, 2011. The 10th Transgenic Technology (TT2011) Meeting is over. The International Society for Transgenic Technologies (ISTT) organized a most enjoyable meeting in St Pete Beach, Florida, USA, with the great help and technical support from In-Conference, Ltd (UK). More than 400 delegates attended this very intense and productive meeting, where participants, speakers, vendors and exhibitors coming from 35 countries around the world, gathered to discuss about the latest technologies to produce and analyze genetically modified animals. Read more...

October 15, 2011. The full scientific program and abstracts that will be presented at the forthcoming 10th Transgenic Technology (TT2011) meeting have been published in the latest issue of the scientific journal Transgenic Research (2011) 20(5):1139-89, associated to the International Society for Transgenic Technologies (ISTT). Read more...

.

The past TT2011 meeting

Next TT Meeting: TT2013

.