8:30 am - Esra Erkut, PhD Student, SickKids, University of Toronto. Mutation in a conserved TBX20 enhancer element may contribute to congenital heart disease. 8:45 am - Stéphanie Gaudreau, PhD Student, University of Ottawa. Developmental Changes in the Expression and Modulation of a Persistent Subthreshold Potassium Current in Primary Motoneurons of Larval Zebrafish. 9:00 am - Lee Ellis, PI, National Research Council of Canada. The use of larval zebrafish transcriptomics as a key component of a New Approach Method platform for chemical risk assessment. 9:15 am - Wei-Han Lang, PhD student, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica. Comparative Time-Ordered Gene Coexpression Network Analyses Revealed Potential Candidates Essential for Cardiomyocyte Dedifferentiation and Heart Regeneration. 9:30 am - Matthew Stoyek, PostDoc, Dalhousie University. POPDC1 Variants Cause Atrioventricular Node Dysfunction and Arrhythmogenic Changes in Cardiac Electrophysiology and Intracellular Calcium Handling in Zebrafish 09:45 am - Fanny Nobilleau, MSc student, University of Montreal. RFC1 is expressed in cerebellar neural progenitors and regulates cerebellum development in vertebrates. 10:00 am - Sarah Childs, PI, University of Calgary. Identifying transcription factors driving pericyte differentiation. 10:15 am - Robert Lalonde, PostDoc, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus. Safe harbor landing sites for reproducible transgenesis and variant testing in zebrafish.

Posters #AM_1 to #AM_21

Dr. Christian Mosimann, U.Colorado: Identifying and validating safe harbor-type landing sites for transgenesis. Dr. Sergey Prykhozhij, CHEO: Mutation knock-in methods using single-stranded DNA and gene editing tools in zebrafish. Dr. Thomas Juan, Max Planck Institute: Conditional protein and mRNA knockdown methods: expanding the zebrafish genetics toolkit.

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01:30 pm - Gursimran Kaur, PhD student, CHU Saint Justine, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada. Role of the angiocrine factor sulf1 in heart regeneration. 01:45 pm - Sarada Ketharnathan, PostDoc, CHEO, A zebrafish model of parn-mutant dyskeratosis congenita reveals novel mechanisms underlying bone marrow failure and opportunities for therapeutic amelioration of hematopoiesis. 02:00 pm - Paulina Hanzelova, PhD student, University of Ottawa, The unexpected fin-tersection of actinodin genes in fin development and zebrafish reproductive success. 02:15 pm - Felix Gunawan, PI, University of Münster. The cardiac endothelial tissue acts as a niche for hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells 02:30 pm - Eiman A. Osman, PostDoc, McGill University. Non-invasive drug biosensing in zebrafish. 02:45 pm - Antoine Légaré, PhD student, Université Laval. Multiscale Functional Examination of Brain Networks in Healthy and Mutant Zebrafish Larvae 03:00 pm - Sirma User, PhD student, University of Toronto, Structural and molecular characterization of EVL-deep cell interactions during zebrafish development. 03:15 pm - Deepam Gupta, PhD student, University of California, San Diego. Distinct roles of Hand2 in promoting myocardial specification and differentiation.

Posters #PM_1 to #PM_21

Dr. Abhinav Sur, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development: Single-cell analysis of shared signatures and transcriptional diversity during zebrafish development. Dr. Jeroen Bakkers, Hubrecht Institute: TOMO-seq: a Spatial Transcriptomics Technique Revealing Insights into Cardiac Development and Regeneration. Dr. Maxwell Shafer, U.Toronto: Comparative genomics of sleep across fish species.