Seminar to Explore Zebrafish Model in Cancer Research
The Beyond Mammals: Exploring Cancer Models series focuses on non-mammalian animal models and their applicability to cancer research. This third seminar in the series, focusing on zebrafish, will take place online only on Thursday, June 26 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:15 p.m., ET.
This seminar will feature three researchers who are using zebrafish to answer cancer biology questions: Dr. James Amatrude, chief, Division of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles; Dr. David Langenau, investigator and professor at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Dr. Kandice Tanner, senior investigator in the laboratory of cell biology at NIH’s National Cancer Institute.
Following their talks, a discussion will center on three questions: What is unique about this organism that makes it useful as a cancer model? What are the most important differences between this model and human cancer? And what are the major obstacles to more cancer researchers adopting this model for use in their labs?
This seminar is free and open to the public. For more information, and to register—after which you will receive the WebEx link to the virtual seminar—see: go.nih.gov/OqBAVN9.