title: Fish from Head to Tail: The 9th European Zebrafish Meeting in Oslo.
abstract: The 9th European Zebrafish Meeting took place recently in Oslo (June 28-July 2, 2015). A total of 650 participants came to hear the latest research news focused on the zebrafish, Danio rerio, and to its distant evolutionary relative medaka, Oryzias latipes. The packed program included keynote and plenary talks, short oral presentations and poster sessions, workshops, and strategic discussions. The meeting was a great success and revealed dramatically how important the zebrafish in particular has become as a model system for topics, such as developmental biology, functional genomics, biomedicine, toxicology, and drug development. A new emphasis was given to its potential as a model for aquaculture, a topic of great economic interest to the host country Norway and for the future global food supply in general. Zebrafish husbandry as well as its use in teaching were also covered in separate workshops. As has become a tradition in these meetings, there was a well-attended Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and ZFIN workshop focused on Zebrafish Genome Resources on the first day. The full EZM 2015 program with abstracts can be read and downloaded from the EZM 2015 Web site zebrafish2015.org .
authors: 1 Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo , Oslo, Norway .
authors: Gareth
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authors: Griffiths
authors: 2 Institute of Genomics Sciences, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham , Birmingham, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland .
authors: Ferenc
authors: F
authors: Müller
authors: 3 Department of Organismal Biology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University , Uppsala, Sweden .
authors: Johan
authors: J
authors: Ledin
authors: 4 MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh , Edinburgh, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland .
authors: E Elizabeth
authors: EE
authors: Patton
authors: 5 School of Pharmacy, University of Oslo , Oslo, Norway .
authors: Tor
authors: T
authors: Gjøen
authors: 6 Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital , Oslo, Norway .
authors: Viola Hélène
authors: VH
authors: Lobert
authors: 5 School of Pharmacy, University of Oslo , Oslo, Norway .
authors: Hanne Cecilie
authors: HC
authors: Winther-Larsen
authors: 7 School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
authors: Mary
authors: M
authors: Mullins
authors: 8 CNRS/INRA, NEURO-Paris Saclay Institute , Paris, France .
authors: Jean-Stephane
authors: JS
authors: Joly
authors: 9 Department of Basic Sciences and Aquatic Medicine, Norwegian University of Life Sciences , Oslo, Norway .
authors: Finn-Arne
authors: FA
authors: Weltzien
authors: 9 Department of Basic Sciences and Aquatic Medicine, Norwegian University of Life Sciences , Oslo, Norway .
authors: Charles McLean
authors: CM
authors: Press
authors: 9 Department of Basic Sciences and Aquatic Medicine, Norwegian University of Life Sciences , Oslo, Norway .
authors: Peter
authors: P
authors: Aleström
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017756:Aquaculture; D023421:Models, Animal; D009664:Norway; D009990:Oryzias / Q000235:genetics*; D015027:Zebrafish / Q000235:genetics*