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July 2, 2009. The Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology (ICMB) at the University of Texas at Austin is seeking a candidate to run the well-equipped Mouse Genetic Engineering Facility (MGEF). Read more...
Poster of the TT2010 meeting
June 25, 2009. The official Poster of the TT2010 meeting, to be held in Berlin (Germany) on March 22-24, 2010, has just been released. The poster includes currently available information regarding invited speakers who confirmed their attendance and the list of topics that will be covered during the conference. Additional information can be obtained directly from the official TT2010 meeting web site. Read more...
Nantes 2009: meeting report
June 24, 2009. On June 8 2009 was held in Nantes, France, the international meeting “Transgenesis ; recent technical developments and applications”. This meeting is the second one of its kind to be organized by the Transgenic Rats Nantes facility from the INSERM UMR 643 and Biogenouest. The meeting was supported by several academic institutions, as well as private companies. The meeting received support and co-sponsorship from the International Society for Transgenic Technology (ISTT). Read more...
Promoting sharing and archiving of mice
June 12, 2009. Nature published yesterday an interesting Editorial promoting the concept of sharing and archiving mouse models that are constantly generated world wide, as a way to adequately trigger our progress in science more efficiently, to avoid repeated experiments and duplication of efforts, and to allow different laboratories to use the same research tools and animal models. Read more...
Transgenesis meeting in Nantes, France
June 9, 2009. The 1-day meeting on “Transgenesis: recent technical developments and applications“, organized by Ignacio Anegon and Séverine Menoret, from the Transgenic Rats Common Facility of IFR 26 and Ouest-Genopole, University of Nantes) was successfully held on June 8, 2009 in Nantes, France. This meeting was co-sponsored by the International Society for Transgenic Technologies (ISTT). Read more...
NorIMM meeting in Finland: Mouse as a Model Organism - From Animals to Cells
June 7, 2009. NorIMM is a Nordic network for communication between the current infrastructures for generation and phenotyping of genetically modified mice in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. This interesting Scandinavian initiative, directed by Taina Pihlajaniemi (Institute of Biomedicine, University of Oulu, Finland), organised last week a meeting on “Mouse as a model organism - From animals to cells” (Rovaniemi and Oulu, Finland, June 2-6, 2009). The head of the Meeting Organizing Committee was Raija Soininen (Biocenter, University of Oulu), a member of ISTT. Read more...
First germline-transmitting transgenic non-human primates
May 28, 2009. Japanese researchers from the Central Institute for Experimental Animals have generated the first transgenic non-human primates in which germline transmission has been confirmed, as reported today in an article published in Nature. Read more...
ISTT co-sponsors the 2009 Transgenic Animal Research Conference, hosted by UC Davis
May 16, 2009. The International Society for Transgenic Technologies (ISTT) has approved to co-sponsor the 2009 Transgenic Animal Research Conference, hosted by UC Davis (Animal Science Department), and organized by James D. Murray at the Granlibakken Conference Center (Lake Tahoe, CA, USA) on August 17-22, 2009. Read more...
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