Andrew Oates & Johannes Larsch are organizing the 5th Lausanne Fish Meeting that will be held Friday November 14, 2025 from 1:00 PM to 5:30 PM in the SV1717 room at EPFL. It will be followed by an apero in SV Hall.
Presentations will be given by the main fish research laboratories in Lausanne, culminating in a lecture by Professor Caroline Hill, eminent developmental biologist and Assistant Research Director at the Francis Crick Institute, UK.
Program
13:00
Registration
13:30
Eleonora Perego (Vastenhouw Lab, UNIL)
Tracking gene loci mobility and chromatin dynamics in early zebrafish development
13:45
Cristina Loureiro (Oates Lab, EPFL)
The Segmentation Clock entrains the cell cycle
14:00
Hannah Halima Schede (D’Angelo Lab, EPFL)
Unified mass imaging maps the lipidome of vertebrate development
14:15
Mauricio Castro Sepulveda (Amati Lab, UNIL)
Zebrafish as a Model for Human Aging Skeletal Muscle
14:30
Zeiss presentation
14:40
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Caroline Hill (Francis Crick Institute, London, UK)
How the zebrafish makes its guts: stochastic switching in endodermal fate decision making
15:30
Coffee break
16:00
Matea Taskovska (Mathis Lab, EPFL)
Zebrafish Behavior Analysis with AI
16:15
Elizabeth Sheldon (Wedekind Lab, UNIL)
Stress inside and out: Does environmental stress amplify inbreeding depression in wild salmonids?
16:30
Lukas Breitzler (Larsch Lab, UNIL)
Social cues modulate defensive states through thalamic and hypothalamic circuits in zebrafish
16:45
Floriane Coulmance (Salamin Lab, UNIL)
Assortative mating, phenotypic variation and speciation
17:00
Clara Pailler-Pradeau (Raymond Lab, UNIL)
Biallelic missense variants in CSMD2 are associated with a neurodevelopmental disease and epilepsy
17:15
Apero & 3R Statement
Talk format: 10 minutes + 2 minutes for questions.