Program overview as per May, 2026:

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Day 1, Tue 7

Tuesday 7th July 2026
10:00 Registration

Workshop Bruker:

“Fluorescence Microscopy Solutions

for Zebrafish Imaging”

11:30 Educational Session
13:00 Opening
13:30 Emerging Technologies I  (Plenary Hall)
15:00 Coffee break
15:30 Disease Models I  (Plenary Hall)
17:00

Key note: Dr. Pavel Tomancak (Dresden)

‘Of Hydra and flies: evolution of morphogenesis’

18:00 End

Day 2, Wed 8

  Wednesday 8th July 2026
09:00 Germline and Early Development I (Plenary Hall)
10:15 Flash Talks
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Cardiovascular I Toxicology I Morphogenesis and Organogenesis I
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Neurobiology (Plenary Hall)
15:00 Poster Session (Odd numbered posters)
17:00 Disease Models II Epigenetics and Gene Regulation Husbandry
18:30 David Grunwald (USA) – Streisinger Award Lecture
19:30 YoRC Social Event

Day 3, Thu 9

Thursday 9th July 2026
08:30 Evolution & Alternative Fish Models I (Plenary Hall)
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Disease Models III Tissue Formation  Neural Circuit and Behavior
12:00 Liz Patton (Edinburgh, UK) – CNV Award Lecture (Plenary Hall)

“The journey from zebrafish melanocytes to melanoma”

13:00 Lunch
14:00 Morphogenesis and Organogenesis II (Plenary Hall)
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Metabolism  Toxicology II Cell fate
17:30 End

Day 4, Fri 10

  Friday 10th July 2026
08:30 Emerging Technologies II (Plenary Hall)
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Evolution & Alternative Fish Models II Infection and Immunity Stem Cells and Regeneration
12:00 Community Session (Plenary Hall)
12:45 Lunch
13:45 Poster Session (Even numbered posters)
15:45

YoRC Session (Plenary Hall)

“Strategic Networking: How Research Communities Move Forward”

Germline and Early Development II
17:15 Chi-Bin Chien Award Lectures (Plenary Hall)

Yinan Wan (Basel, CH)

Victoria Deneke (Chi-Bien Chen Award 2025)

18:15 Make your way to the Vienna Town Hall
19:00 Reception Vienna Town Hall

Day 5, Sat 11

  Saturday 11th July 2026
09:00

Keynote lecture II – Prof. Elly Tanaka (Vienna)

“Evolving and regenerating limbs”

10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Cardiovascular II (Plenary Hall)
12:00 Adjourn (Plenary Hall)
12:30 Lunch