We have been monitoring closely the outbreak of the coronavirus over this last week. As you may know, today the World Health Organization has declared the outbreak to be a "Public Health Emergency of International Concern."
The travel ban preventing Chinese researchers from traveling to Taiwan, together with major airlines cancelling flights to several cities in China that impacts many of our attendees flight plans, have resulted in quite a few cancellations. In addition, several other attendees have also cancelled in recent days, leaving us with a much reduced conference size and a significantly reduced roster of speakers. We are also concerned about a possible expansion of the outbreak that may result in travel restrictions to and from Taiwan, and may develop over the course of the conference.
For those reasons, we have made the difficult decision to cancel the conference. We appreciate the time and effort you have put in to be part of this conference. IZFS staff will be working to refund registration fees over the next couple of weeks.
Please contact us at info@izfs.org with any questions or concerns you may have.
Sincerely,
SCZI 2020 Meeting Organizers:
Bon-chu Chung
Jeff Lee
Didier Stainier
IZFS Executive Committee
Didier Stainier
Mary Mullins
Phil Ingham
Elizabeth Busch-Nentwich
Kate Lewis
Registration is still open for the 2020 Strategic Conference of Fish Investigators, Taipei, Taiwan, February 4 – 8, 2020, and we are accepting registrations to the meeting, including walk-in registrations.
The program is now available in several formats including PDF and the mobile application. Here are instruction on how to access the program.
Mobile Application on Smartphones
- Download EventMobi in Apple Store (iOS devices) or Google Play Store (Android devices).
- Open the EventMobi application after download and the enter the event code: sczi2020
- You will be prompted to enter your email address and then enter your first and last name and create a password.
Via Computer Browsers
You can view the program on smartphones, tablets and desktop computers via web browsers athttps://eventmobi.com/sczi2020/.
- Visit https://eventmobi.com/sczi2020/
- It will prompt you to enter your email address then enter your first and last name and create a password.
- Event code: sczi2020
PDFs
Schedule Only (Please cross reference the schedule with the Abstract PDFs) (click to download)
- Keynote Addresses
- Plenary and Concurrent Talks
- Workshops
- Community Sessions
Plenary and Concurrent Abstracts (click to download)
Poster Abstracts (click to download)
For more meeting information, visit https://www.izfs.org/conferences/9th-sczi-pi-meeting.
Anna Douangphachanh, CMP
Meetings, Membership and Administrative Manager
International Zebrafish Society
555 East Wells Street, Suite 1100
Milwaukee, WI 53202-3823
(414) 918-9835 l adouan@izfs.org l www.izfs.org
Gene pages have been quietly spruced up lately, but you might not have noticed all of the changes, so presented below is a list of recent improvements.
First off, we have been reliably informed that tables are easier to read than long, long lists (who knew?), so we’ve been all about tables in these three sections:
— Sequence targeting reagents have been converted from a list to a table that includes alleles created by CRISPRs and direct links to related pubs.
— Antibodies have been updated from a list to a table that includes helpful antibody details such as Type, Isotype, etc.
— Constructs have been updated from a list to a table that includes regulatory regions, coding sequences, species involved, source, and pubs.
On the non-table-related front, we have added some nice things to these sections:
— A link to “multi-species” data at Alliance has been added to the Disease Associated with [gene] Human Ortholog section.
— The Protein domains section now includes domain type and names. We used to show just ID numbers and no names. Not cool. Well, those days are over.
— The Transcripts section now provides a direct link to transcript at Ensembl, as well as links to UCSC, NCBI, Ensembl, and ZFIN genome browsers.
— Links to Expression Atlas now appear in the Expression section.
But wait, there’s more, a LOT more … but not quite yet. A truly epic Gene Page Makeover is in the works. But for now, we hope these various improvements will suffice.