Final Programme | Ezham2026

Programme

October 1st

09.00 - 12.30 - Workshop on Severity classification in zebrafish and their larvae

12.30 - 14.00 - Registration and Welcome lunch

14.00 - 14.15 - Welcome and Introduction

14.15 - 15.00 - Keynote Lecture: Mapping Welfare Through Behavioural Choice, Sonia Rey Planellas, IRTA Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology, Spain

Session 1: Dive into Husbandry I

15.00 - 15.30 - Well I didn’t see that coming … Luckily my sensor array did, Bruce Newell
15.30 - 15.45 - No Space to Swim: Are Current Zebrafish Research Housing Systems Undermining Welfare Principles?, Paul Gregory
15.45 - 16.00 - The ‘1 Liter’ issue: increased water volumes during routine matings have no overt beneficial impact on mating success or zebrafish well being, Stefan Schulte-Merker

16.00 - 16.30 - Coffee break

16.30 - 16.40 - Sponsor talk

Session 2: Refinement (in experiments and husbandry)

16.40 - 17.05 - Refinements for invasive zebrafish procedures and why they matter, Paul Georg Schroeder
17.05 - 17.20 - The three EEEs (Environmental Enrichment Endeavours), Vickie Thomas-McArthur
17.20 - 17.35 - Life After the Lab: From Laboratory Fish to Companion for Inquiry-Based Learning in Biology Class,Bettina Kirchmaier
17.35 - 17.45 - ???
17.45 - 18.05 - Behavioural studies - what to care?, Ana Valentim

18.05 - 18.30 - Poster flashtalks

October 2nd

09.00 - 09.45 - Keynote Lecture: From Genotypes to Agents: Zebrafish Models, Non-invasive Larval Genotyping, and the Next Generation of Functional Biology, Stephen C Ekker, University of Texas - Austin

Session 3: Zebrafish and other species models

09.45 - 10.15 - All Creatures Great and Small: The Art of Multi- Aquatic Species Facility Management, Mollie Millington
10.15 - 10.30 - Short-term feed withdrawal in adult zebrafish: integrated assessment of stress-related biomarkers, Elisa Fonsatti
10.30 - 10.45 - Zebrafish larvae as an infection model for pathogens of interest to the aquaculture sector, Ana Isabel Miranda Soares

10.45 - 11.15 - Coffee break

11.15 - 11.20 - Gold Sponsor talk

11.20 - 11.25 - Gold Sponsor talk

Session 4: Dive into Husbandry II

11.25 - 11.35 - AB strain preferences, Sonia Rey Planellas
11.35 - 11.55 - Zebrafish Larviculture in the Age of Automation: When Humans, Robots and Zebrafish Collide, Carrie Burton
11.55 - 12.05 - Euthanasia - Considerations for research, Claire Allen
12.05 - 12.30 - From Facility Operations to Fish welfare, Ana Borges
12.30 - 12.45 - Mitigating Construction-Induced Vibrations in Zebrafish Facilities: Practical Interventions and Facility-Level Assessment, Andy Willaert

12.45 - 14.00 - Lunch

14.00 - 15.30 - Session 5: Global Session

15.30 - 16.10 - Poster Flashtalk

16.10 - 16.40 - Coffee break

16.40 - 17.25 - Keynote Lecture: Ioanna Katsiadaki, Cefas - United Kingdom

Session 6: Other fish models

17.25 - 17.45 - New Models, Now What? Optimizing Husbandry for Danionella cerebrum and Giant Danio, Joana Monteiro
17.45 - 18.00 - Age-Dependent Welfare Assessment in the African Turquoise Killifish: Development of Species-Specific Scoresheets, Elena De Felice
18.00 - 18.15 - From Breeding to Diapause: An Optimized Life-Cycle Management Protocol for Nothobranchius furzeri, Aniello Vitale
18.15 - 18.30 - Reintroducing a Classic Fish Model: Insights into the Housing, Husbandry and Welfare of the Paradise Fish (Macropodus opercularis), Tarján-Rácz Anita

October 3rd

09.00 - 09.45 - Keynote Lecture - History of Genetic Engineering, Freek Van Eeden, University of Sheffield - United Kingdom

09.45 - 09.50 - Gold Sponsor talk

Session 7: Sex differentiation and ageing

09.50 - 10.15 - Sex differentiation, Ioanna Katsiadaki
10.15 - 10.30 - Sex-Specific Neurobehavioral Effects of Environmental Contaminants in Adult Zebrafish, ShimaTavakolian Haghighi
10.30 - 10.50 - ???

10.50 - 11.20 - Coffee break

11.20 - 11.30 - Platinum Sponsor talk?

Session 8: Reproducibility and reporting of zebrafish husbandry in research

11.30 - 11.45 - Intro: Reporting and reproducibility initiative recap, Ana C Borges
11.45 - 12.05 - Reporting Standards and Reproducibility in Zebrafish Research: Lessons from Zebrafishology and the Zebrafish Journal, Stephen Ekker
12.05- 12.20 - Reporting Standards from the Editorial Perspective of Lab Animal, Jorge Ferreira
12.20-12.35 - Anaesthesia in Zebrafish: Reporting Standards for Reproducible Research, Ana Valentim
12.35 – 12.45 - Partial replacement in reporting, Claire Allen

12.45 - 14.00 - Closing and Light Lunch