RODENT MODELS OF DISEASES
First FREE International Online and Onsite (Toronto) Conference
May 27, 2010
The conference aim is to provide an online forum for scientific exchange that will gather together in the same cyberspace scientists from around the globe who use the mouse or rat as a model organism for their biomedical research. This international initiative will be the starting point for a global forum aimed at facilitating collaboration among scientists and clinicians, common application for research grants, generation of better models for diseases that will ultimately lead to advancement in basic science and faster clinical testing of novel therapeutics.
This is a great opportunity to present your findings in understanding various diseases, irrespective of the research field, disease studied, or the techniques and scientific approaches used. The common element is the use of the mouse or rat as a model organism. The mouse is the most widely used surrogate for humans, offering invaluable insight into the molecular, cellular, and systemic processes underlying human disease as well as a useful tool in testing therapeutic agents in preclinical studies. However, for certain diseases the rat is a better model.
OFFICIAL SPONSORS
GOLD SPONSORS
SILVER SPONSORS
Falk & Falk Attorneys
Study AdvantageTM
MEDIA SPONSORS
Frontiers in Neuroscience Journal
The idea to organize a free online and onsite conference on "Rodent models of diseases" was initiated by a group of scientists from the University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine, Canada.
Conference organizing committee:
Dr. Rosalind Silverman - co-chair, U. of Toronto, Canada
Dr. Lorelei Silverman - co-chair, U of Toronto, Canada
Dr. Gavin Zealey - scientific consultant, Executive Director,
Sanofi Pasteur, Canada
Dr. Marian Ionescu - medical consultant, EU
Dr. Sam Balderman - medical consultant, USA
Garima Singh - IT consultant, Canada
Venkat Subramanian - consultant, Canada
Dr. Ming Hou - scientific/medical consultant, Canada
Dr. Mark Gertner - oncology consultant, Canada
Dr. Abbass Karbassian - scientific consultant, Canada
Volunteers from University of Toronto:
Dr. Hamid Reza Raziee- team leader,
Swati Agnihotri, Andrea Leung, Jenny Lyn Jacobs, Virginie Braun, Ellen Koo, Tim Ng, Jenny Jun, Kerry Andrusiak, Ashley Ross, Louisa Ho, Sajeda Patel, Yang Chieh Chou, Tatiana Perova, Andrea Kormendi, Dr. Peter Sabatini, Christine Zhang, Sekou Gregg.
Cliff Falk and Dan Falk at ACCR, 2009
PARTICIPANTS
Researchers from academic institutions, research hospitals, biotech companies, and clinical research organizations around the globe are invited to submit their abstracts and join their group of interests. The conference and interest groups are open to any scientists worldwide as long as they use the mouse or rat as a model organism in their research. The interest groups will organize future conferences, workshops,will apply for common grants and will be able to share resources.
Dr. Lee Adamson, University of Toronto will be the key note speaker.
Posters will be grouped in several major disease categories:
Cancer Haematological
Cardiovascular Immune
Dermatological Infectious
Diabetes Metabolic
Digestive Musculo-Skeletal
Endocrine Neurological
Genetics Neurodegenerative
Genito-Urinary Respiratory
Other Sensorial
The posters will be also available online post-conference for further review.
Even if you can not submit a poster at this time you can still contribute to the rodent models of diseases community by being included in one of the above interest group categories. Our data base reached 2,000 labs worldwide and is growing at a fast speed.
BEST POSTER AWARD
A $100 prize will be offered for the best poster in each major disease category if sponsorship will be available.
The deadline for poster submission is May 15, 2010. Please send a powerpoint file. You can also submit a biosketch.
Examples of submissions:
Neurological-Neurodegenerative-Alzheimer's Disease
Jeremy A Miller (1), Steve Horvath (2), and Daniel H. Geschwind (3)
1. Interdepartmental Program for Neuroscience, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
2. Department of Biostatistics, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
3. Department of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Gene co-expresion meta-analysis of similarities and differences between human and mouse brain
Cardiovascular-Atherosclerosis
Rosalind Silverman (1), Lorelei Silverman (2), Milton Charlton (2) and Michelle Bendeck (1)
1. Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Toronto, Canada
2. Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Canada
Determinants of polarity in migrating rat arterial smooth muscle cells : PKC, ARPC5, and RHAMM
Moorwood K, Manfredi G, Stewart-Cox J, Withington I, Ward A.
1. University of Bath, Dept. of Biology and Biochemistry and Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Bath, UK
Transgenic mice with inducible, brain-specific expression of genes identified as potential therapeutic targets in Alzheimer's Disease
Diabetes
Sophia Balderman, Bilal Ahmed, Zsolt dePapp, Karen Mead
University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
A case of malignant insulinoma
Genetics
Lucian Gavrila
University of Bucharest, Department of Genetics
Using the murine model to investigate the genetic background of human male infertility
TESTIMONIALS ABOUT PREVIOUS ORGANIZED CONFERENCES
Dear Lori and Rosalind: I appreciated the opportunity to participate in the 30th annual Biology Symposium at York University. You chose an excellent set of speakers, the organization of the meeting went very smoothly, and you were all outstanding hosts and hostesses. Thank you for inviting me and for taking such good care of all the speakers, Best wishes,
Dr. Mario Capecchi, Nobel Laureate and Professor of Human Genetics and Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, U. of Utah School of Medicine
I would like to congratulate all on the superb day on Saturday. The program and the speakers were exceptional and it was an exciting day of science. The organization was superb and all run very smoothly. It was very pleasant to have a chance to meet with speakers and other attendees at the social events. All in all, an exciting event, superbly organized and run. There is an exceptional amount of hard work that goes into the organizing of an event such as this. You have all done a superb job. Once again, congratulations and thank you. You have done us all proud.
Dr. Ronald Pearlman, Asociate Dean Faculty of Graduate Studies, York University
Dear Rosalind and Lorelei: Thank you so much for the invitation to participate in the symposium. I had a wonderful time. The science was excellent too. You put together a super symposium! Dr. Cecilia Moens, Assistant Investigator Howard Hughes Medical Institute Reasearch Laboratories
Thanks for everything. I had a marvelous time! Great job and kudos to everyone involved!Dr. Joe Culloti, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto
Dear Lorelei and Rosalind: I wanted to thank you again for inviting me and for organizing such a fantastic event. I had a wonderful time. Congratulations for your success! Thank you again, and best wishes as you pursue your future careers! Dr. Daniel F Eberl, University of Iowa
A tremendous success! Dr. Roger Lew, York University
Congratulations on the meeting-such a success! Well organized and well attended.Dr. Gill Wu Dean, Faculty of Pure & Applied Sciences, York U
Truly outstanding, all the hard work was obvious and much appreciated. The standard was so high it will be a tough act to follow.Dr. Brent Heath, York U
I am very impressed with the organization of your event! Dr. Dave Litchfield CSBMCB -sponsor
It is a pleasure to congratulate you for the splendid symposium, a timely provocative and reflective gathering of scholars, present and future to think things through. The friendly and gracious energy of the organizers made sure that the elements fit together for a satisfying exchange of ideas and interpretation in the form of question, insight, or experience. The outcomes will be evident in the years to come in the significant work that will be produced as a direct consequence of this day together. Dr.Greg Malszecki, School of Kinesiology and Health Science, York University
You all did a great job and should be congratulated!Sandra Adler, Fisher Scientific- sponsor
Thank you very much for inviting Sarstedt to participate in the show. I am pleased that it was a success and look forward to our future collaborations. All the best! Katrina Calleja, Sarstedt- sponsor
Hi Lorelei, Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to present and participate. It was well organized so I cannot offer any better suggestions
Janice MacLean-Gamsby, Senior Account Manager Ontario, Pall Life Sciences Canada- sponsor
CONTACT
For conference related communications please contact the conference team at:
rosalind.silverman.gavrila_utoronto.ca
Co-chair Dr. Rosalind Silverman
University of Toronto
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
Faculty of Medicine
1 King's College Circle, room 6315
Toronto, ON, M5S 1A8,Canada
phone: (416) 946-7134
Co-chair Dr. Lorelei Silverman
Department of Physiology
1 King's College Circle, room 3308
phone: (416) 978-0781
Latest news!
The first lecture in the weekly series Rodent Models of Diseases on January 13, 2009 in Toronto was a tremendous succes! Join us for the third lecture series this week!
Click here for details!
The abstracts in the Neuro-degenerative Disease section will be also published in the Frontiers in Neuroscience Journal.
Rodent Models of Diseases was selected among top 6 biomedical proposals at the Sanofi Pasteur Healthcare & Biotechnology Venture Challenge, Toronto, 2009
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