| Sunday, October 23, 2011 | ||
| 10:00 - 12:00 | ISTT Council Meeting | |
| 15:00 - 18:00 | Registration and Poster Set Up | |
| 18:00 - 22.00 | Pre Meeting Dinner Cruise upon the Starlite Princess Authentic Paddlewheeler | |
| Monday, October 24, 2011 | ||
| 08:45 - 09:00 | Welcome Address: ISTT President, Organizing Committee | |
| Session 1. Mouse Genetics Chair: Carlisle Landel, Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
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| 09:00 - 09:30 | Genetic Background and Superovulation Carlisle Landel Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
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| 09:30 - 10:00 | Coat Colour in Generation of Chimeras Marina Gertsenstein Toronto Centre of Phenogenomics, Toronto, ON, Canada |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 | How to Name a Mouse - Mouse Strain, Gene and Allele Nomenclature Howard Dene The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, USA |
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| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| Session 2. Mouse Models of Disease Chair: Jan Parker-Thornburg, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA |
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| 11:00 - 11:30 | As Quiet as a Mouse: Use of Genetically Modified Mice to Study Hearing and Deafness Andy K. Groves Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA |
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| 11:30 - 12:00 | Development and Preclinical Evaluation of Therapies for Spinal Muscular Atrophy in Mice Arthur Burghes The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA |
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| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch and Posters | |
| Session 3: Animal Ethics, Welfare and Updated Regulations on Animal Experimentation Chair: Johannes Wilbertz, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden |
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| 13:30 - 14:00 | Animal Ethics Karin Blumer Novartis International AG, Basel, Switzerland |
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| 14:00-14:30 | New European Directive on the Protection of Animals used for Scientific Purposes: Impact on the Generation and Management of Genetically Modified Models Belen Pintado National Center of Biotechnology (CNB), CSIC, Madrid, Spain |
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| 14:30 - 15:00 | Shifitng Research Animal Regulations and Accreditation Standards: Hobbling or Facilitating Sound Science? Chris Newcomer AAALAC, Frederick, MD, USA |
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| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:30 - 17:30 | Round Table: How to Run a Transgenic Unit Chair: Tom Fielder, University of California-Irvine, CA, USA Aimee B. Stablewski, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA Cheryl Bock, Duke Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA Rebbeca Haffner, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel |
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| Session 4: ISTT Prize | ||
| 17:30 - 17:40 | Presentation of the ISTT Prize Winner (by ISTT President) Lluís Montoliu National Center of Biotechnology (CNB), CSIC, Madrid, Spain |
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| 17:40 - 18:45 | 8th ISTT Prize for Outstanding Contributions to Transgenic Technologies Mammalian Germline Modification Ralph L. Brinster University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
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| 19:00 | Wine, Beer, Cheese and Posters | |
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| Tuesday, October 25, 2011 | ||
| Session 5. Fundamental Methods for Transgenic Core Facilities Chair: Elizabeth Williams, TASQ, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia |
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| 09:00 - 09:30 | Essentials of Microinjection Charles Hawkins Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA |
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| 09:30 - 10:00 | Factors Affecting In Vitro Fertilization Jan Parker-Thornburg M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 | International Germplasm Transfer Kent Lloyd University of California-Davis, CA, USA |
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| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| Session 6: International Initiatives, Web Resources for Transgenic/KO Mice Chair: Peter Sobieszczuk, Auckland, New Zealand |
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| 11:00 - 11:30 | Finding your Transgenic Mouse/ES Cell Line/Gene with On-line Resources Peter Sobieszczuk Auckland, New Zealand |
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| 11:30 - 12:00 | Germline Performance of Gene-Targeted ES Cell Clones Imported from the International Knockout Mouse Consortium by a Transgenic Core Facility Thom Saunders University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA |
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| 12:00 - 12:30 | The IKMC Web Portal: A single access point to mouse knockouts from the International Knockout Mouse Consortium William Skarnes Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK |
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| 12:30 - 14:00 | Posters & Light Lunch, Posters, EVEN numbers | |
| Session 7: New Technologies Chair: Boris Jerchow, Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin-Buch, Germany |
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| 14:00 - 14:30 | Authentic Rat Embryonic Stem Cells and Germline Transmission of Targeted Mutations Qi-Long Ying Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, University of Southern California, LA, CA, USA |
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| 14:30 - 15:00 | Pronuclear Injection-Based Mouse Targeted Transgenesis by Site-Specific Recombination Masato Ohtsuka Tokai University, School of Medicine, Isehara, Kanagawa, Japan |
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| 15:00 - 15:30 | Development of Vibratory Microinjection Systems Fujio Miyawaki Tokyo Denki University, Saitama, Japan |
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| 15.30 - 16.00 | The JAX Colony Management System (JCMS): An Extensible Colony and Phenotype Data Management System for Transgenic Mouse Colonies Chuck Donnelly The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, USA |
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| 16:00 - 16:15 | Selected Short Oral Presentation Recombinase Mediated Promoter Switching Enables two Different Transgene Expression Levels to be Achieved in a Single Line of Targeted Transgenic Mice Ben Davies Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, UK |
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| 16:15 - 16:30 | Selected Short Oral Presentation A "Lymphoreporter" Mouse for in Vivo Imaging of Lymphangiogenesis in Development, Inflammation and Tumour Metastasis Sagrario Ortega Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO), Madrid, Spain |
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| 16:30 - 17:30 | Posters, ODD numbers | |
| 17:30 - 19:30 | ISTT General Assembly | |
| 20:00 | Conference Banquet | |
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| Wednesday, October 26, 2011 | ||
| Session 8: Beyond Mouse Transgenesis Chair: Lluís Montoliu, National Center of Biotechnology (CNB), CSIC, Madrid, Spain |
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| 09:00 - 09:30 | An Introduction to Non-Mouse Models Bruce Whitelaw The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, UK |
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| 09:30 - 10:00 | Transgenic Pigs as Models for Translational Biomedical Research Eckhard Wolf University of Munich, Munich, Germany |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 | The use of Transgenic Zebrafish to Investigate Biological Processes in Vivo Robert Kelsh Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Bath, Bath, UK |
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| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| Session 9: Animal Biotechnology Chair: Wojtek Auerbach, Regeneron Pharmaceticals, Inc., Tarrytown, NY, USA |
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| 11:00 - 11:30 | The Regulation and Politics of Food from Genetically Engineered Animals Alison L. Van Eenennaam University of California-Davis, CA, USA |
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| 11:30 - 12:00 | Suppression of Bird Flu Transmission in Transgenic Chickens Helen Sang The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, UK |
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| 12:00 - 12:30 | Beyond the Mouse - Novel Genetically Engineered Animals Edward Weinstein Sigma Advanced Genetic Engineering Labs, St. Louis, MO, USA |
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| 12:30 - 12:45 | Selected Short Oral Presentation Production of Transgenic Sheep by Inhibin α shRNA Xiangyang Miao Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China |
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| 12.45 - 13.00 | Selected Short Oral Presentation Targeted Transgene Integration in Mouse Embryos using "Open Source" Zinc Finger Nucleases Mario Hermann Institute of Laboratory Animal Sciences, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland |
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| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch and Posters | |
| Session 10: Manipulating the Rat Genome Chair: Thom Saunders, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA |
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| 14:30 - 15:00 | Mutating the Rat Genome with Transposons Joseph Ruiz Transposagen Inc., Lexington, KY, USA |
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| 15:00 - 15:30 | The Power of Rat Models - Targeted Nucleases Aron Geurts Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA |
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| Final Session: Award Ceremony and Concluding Remarks Chair: Thom Saunders, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA |
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| 15:30 - 15.40 |
Introduction to the ISTT Young Investigator Award Thom Saunders, Vice-President of the ISTT Paul Sheiffele & Lisa Aronov, inGenious Targeting Laboratory |
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| 15:40 - 15:55 | Short talk by the 1st ISTT Young Investigator Award - TT2011 Generate Animal Models by Stem Cells Technology Xiao-Yang Zhao State Key Lab of Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China |
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| 15:55 - 16:15 | Diplomas for the ISTT Registration Awards TT2011 Best Poster Awards Presentation of TT2013 Meeting Concluding Remarks |
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| 16:15 |
End of TT2011 Meeting |
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