PROGRAM
Mouse master class
09:00 – 09:15 Registration / coffee
09:15 – 09:45 Overview of currently available preclinical mouse models. Yann Hérault (Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, FR)
09:45 – 10:15 Genetic quality control, maintenance and breeding procedures. Eugene Yu (Roswell Park Cancer Institute, USA)
10:15 – 10:45 Classical behavioral phenotyping. Mara Dierssen (Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), SP)
10:45 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 11:30 Craniofacial and skeletal phenotyping. Randall Roper (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA)
11:30 – 12:00 Electrophysiology. William Mobley (Univers ityof California-San Diego, USA)
12:00 – 12:30 Preclinical testing. Jean-Maurice Delabar (CNRS, FR)
12:30 – 13:00 Discussion on key information about models and their availability (moderated by Lizzy Fisher) and perspective on new animal models for Down syndrome research. Roger Reeves (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA) and Victor Tybulewicz (Francis Crick Institute, UK)
