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IBCS-BIP & COS Launched 1st German Fish Model Research Meeting

Our institute members, Prof. Dr. Nicholas Simon Foulkes, Dr. Sepand Rastegar, Dr. Laetitia Préau and Dr. Rima Siauciunaite, contributed the success of the first inaugural German Fish Model Research Meeting at Heidelberg September 2026. This was an unique gathering for fostering collaboration and sharing innovative ideas using various fish models such as zebrafish, cavefish, killifish, medaka etc ...

IBCS-BIP & COS Launched 1st German Fish Model Research Meeting

IBCS-BIP

Scientific highlights

IBCS-BIP studies how cells store and process biological information, using zebrafish and medaka as vertebrate models and combining genetics, imaging, screening and bioinformatics under one roof.
mikk Loosli
Medaka Inbred Kiyosu-Karlsruhe (MIKK) panel

The Medaka Inbred Kiyosu-Karlsruhe panel comprises 80 near-isogenic lines bred from a wild population. It is the first vertebrate inbred panel to retain natural genetic variation, allowing the same genome to be studied repeatedly.

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daniocode DANIO-CODE
DANIO-CODE Data Coordination Center

Our contribution to the functional annotation of the zebrafish non-coding genome, which opened its regulatory landscape to systematic study.

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cave Foulkes
Circadian clocks and environmental physiology

Light-entrained clocks and their evolution in cavefish, hormone and stress signalling read out in living fish, and the cellular responses triggered by chemicals and nanomaterials.

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pretox
PrecisionTox

We showed that the relative toxicity of 72 chemicals ranks much as it does in rodents when measured in zebrafish embryos, nematodes and flies. This is evidence that non-mammalian models can carry weight in chemical risk assessment. 

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ezrc EZRC
European Zebrafish Resource Center (EZRC)

One of the two zebrafish stock centres worldwide. The EZRC archives and distributes mutant and transgenic lines, so that a line generated once needs never be generated again. 

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