Part I (9.00 – 10.30)

General Assembly of PTZ members

Przemko Tylżanowski

Part II (10.45 - 12.15)

Invited speakers’ presentations

1. Stefan Schulte-Merker - Director Institute Cardiovascular Organogenesis and Regeneration, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany

UPDATE: Unfortunately, Stefan Schulte-Merker will not be able to attend the Meeting, because of an unforeseen emergency, so the speach will be given by Stephan Neuhauss, Department of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich, Switzerland, vice-president of the EZS “The European Zebrafish Society (EZS) – an introduction”

2. "Zebrafish models of human diseases with shortened lifespan"

Máté Varga, Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem Biológiai Intézet, Budapest, Hungary

Members‘ presentations

1. Optimising two-photon microscopy for investigating neural activity in the larval zebrafish eye and brain

 Filip Janiak, Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, UK

2. SPIN PROBE AND SPIN TRAP TOXICITY FOR ZEBRAFISH (DANIO RERIO) EMBRYOS

Katerina Makarova, Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland

3. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – histopathology in zebrafish

Karolina Naumowicz, Department of Pathophysiology, Forensic Veterinary Medicine and Administration, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland

Coffee break (12.15 - 12.30)

Part III (12.30 – 14.00)

Members‘ presentations

1. Voltage-gated potassium channels as developmental regulators of inner ear

Justyna Jedrychowska, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

2. Role of antisense oligonucleotide-induced intronic miRNA on axonal morphogenesis

Savani Anbalagan, Institute of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.

3. Knockdown of tubgcp2 results in small head and cell cycle disruption of brain neural progenitor cells in zebrafish embryos

Dawidziuk Mateusz, Department of Medical Genetics, Institute of Mother and Child, Warsaw, Poland

4. Neuroinflammation and sickness behavior in zebrafish infected with Tilapia lake virus.

Miriam Mojzesz, Department of Evolutionary Immunology, Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Faculty of Biology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

5. Modelling chemotherapy-associated cardiotoxicity in zebrafish: Pharmacological evaluation of doxorubicin-induced heart failure

Monika Maciag, Department of Biopharmacy, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

6. Screening of endosulfan and its degradation products toxicity using the Danio rerio embryos.

Patrycja Jesionkowska, Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

14.00 - 14.15 Closing remarks