Sepand Rastegar
Developmental biologist interested in neurogenesis, transcription, regeneration, zebrafish, and Middle East geopolitics.
bip.ibcs.kit.edu/78.php
orcid.org/0000-0003-4411-5646
germanfishmeeting.org
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- Visit our webpage (www.germanfishmeeting.org) and register for the first German Fish Meeting in beautiful Heidelberg! #GermanFishMeeting2026 #Zebrafish #Medaka
- 🐟 Exciting News! 🐟 1st German Fish Model Research Meeting : 🔗 Submit your abstract and register today: www.germanfishmeeting.org 📅 When: September 16–18, 2026 📍 Where: Center for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg, Germany #germanfishmeeting2026 #fish #research #zebrafish #science
- I am free when everyone is free
- All key information about the German Fish Meeting at COS, Heidelberg (16–18 September 2026) is summarized in this flyer. Please feel free to share it with colleagues and researchers working with any fish model. Thank you!
- Important meeting to come!!!!
- #Zebrafish 🐟 meeting klaxon🧨 The registration period for the 1st German Zebrafish Meeting (16-18 Sept) is open www.germanfishmeeting.org with Sessions on Development, Pharma, Behavior, Omics, and more. Deadline for Abstracts at the end of April. Hope to see y'all there! 🧪 (1/n)
- 🐟📢 It’s happening! Registration is OPEN for the 1st German Fish Model Research Meeting 📅 16–18 Sept 2026 | Heidelberg 👉 www.germanfishmeeting.org #FishResearch #ModelOrganisms #Zebrafish #Medaka
- Honored that our review on adult forebrain #regeneration in #zebrafish and mouse, highlighting the pro-regenerative role of the immune system (Chen J. et al., 2024, doi.org/10.1111/febs.17231), was highlighted again by the #FEBSJournal Journal Editorial Board (doi.org/10.1111/febs.70355).
- Join us Sept 16–18, 2026 at Heidelberg University #2026germanfishmeeting
- Germany hosts a world-leading fish research community, yet never had a Fish Meeting. That changes now 🐟 We are organizing the 1st German Fish Meeting to connect the community, support early-career scientists,discuss challenges facing basic research #2026GermanFishMeeting 👉 www.germanfishmeeting.org
- Preview of the German Fish Meeting webpage www.germanfishmeeting.org. Please repost!!!!! #EZRC #EZS #ZFIN
- "All That’s Left of You" is among the movies you should absolutely watch to better understand what’s going on in the Middle East and stop believing everything mainstream media tells you.
- #zebrafish #Brain #Regeneration #GeneRegulation doi.org/10.1111/febs... Multiple cis-regulatory elements collaborate to control mdka expression in telencephalic neural stem cells of adult #zebrafish during constitutive and regenerative #neurogenesis
- German Fish Meeting webpage coming soon with all fish models! Special postdoc session by @mads100tist.bsky.social + lunch meet-up with the 3 keynotes. We also hope to welcome participants from France, Switzerland, Austria and more Updates here or on @rastapopolus.bsky.social
- On Saturday, on the highway between #Strasbourg and #Karlsruhe, the sky suddenly turned red.
- Our study on mdka transcriptional regulation during zebrafish brain regeneration has been accepted in FEBS Journal and will be online soon! 🚀 A related review from our group on immunity & inflammation in zebrafish brain regeneration is also available in FEBS Journal: doi.org/10.1111/febs...
- Need to establish #zebrafish KO or KI lines? Get in touch with TEFOR.
- Five more journalists killed in a #Gaza hospital today. The toll is now 200. And in our so-called democracy, silence.
- #zebrafish genome update from Shawn Burgess
- #zebrafish genome update, our T2T assembly of the inbred strain of AB (M-AB) generated by my buddy Nori Sakai has now been released at NCBI and will be a second reference genome for zebrafish (GRCz12ab):
- Dear Jacob, I believe that better days will come, because every tyranny and dictatorship eventually collapses, precisely because they are built on injustice and the oppression of some over others. Stay strong and safe Azizi!!!!.
- Important !!!! #DANIO-CODE data coordination is back online!!!
- #IZFC2025 #zebrafish #DANIO-CODE data coordination centre is back online. Note changed address: danio-code-dcc.genereg.net
- 🐟 Karlsruhe Institut of Technology hosts since 2012 Europe’s only Zebrafish Resource Centre (EZRC). 30,000+ mutant lines, 2,000+ gene plasmids (Armant et al. 2013: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2013.05.006, Diotel et al. 2015: 10.1002/cne.23733), plus hands-on courses in 🇩🇪 & 🇬🇧! ! 🔬 www.ezrc.kit.edu #Zebrafish
- The link to our revised article is doi.org/10.1101/2025...
- The world is truly insane!!! A war criminal is supporting a narcissistic politician who incited his supporters to attack the U.S. Congress—for the Nobel Prize. This is the most ridiculous joke ever.
- The animation in the sky for the 200th anniversary of research in Karlsruhe and #KIT was performed using 200 drones.
- #KIT 's 200th anniversary party!
- The very first #German #Fish #meeting will take place in September 2026 in #Heidelberg! Stay tuned — more info will be published right here. But already now: mark your calendars! I’m sure it will be a fantastic meeting with the whole German Fish community — and more!!! 🐟 🐠
- Forgot to mention: The #German #fish #meeting will be held in the beautiful city of #Heidelberg. We've gathered a list of 64 German fish labs, but if you've started your lab recently, please get in touch to join our mailing list! #zebrafish #medaka #Danionella #cavefish
- We—Nicolas @rohner.bsky.social, Lauren @lsaunders.bsky.social, Arica @abeisaw.bsky.social & Sepand @rastapopolus.bsky.social—are planning the first German #fish ( #zebrafish, #medaka, #killifish, others) #meeting for September 2026. If you're a PI & want info, get in touch!
- We—Nicolas @rohner.bsky.social, Lauren @lsaunders.bsky.social, Arica @abeisaw.bsky.social & Sepand @rastapopolus.bsky.social—are planning the first German #fish ( #zebrafish, #medaka, #killifish, others) #meeting for September 2026. If you're a PI & want info, get in touch!
- Latest preprint @zebrafishrock.bsky.social and @the-node.bsky.social
