PhD course: Fish as experimental animals - zebrafish CRISPR and in vivo imaging
Dates: 15-16th May 2025 + 20-23rd May 2025 (50 hours in total)
Aim and content
Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at a Danish university, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline. This also applies to PhD students from NorDoc member faculties. After the enrollment deadline, available seats will be allocated to applicants on the waiting list.
Participants
All students or other interested personnel who are interested in working with fish either in aquaculture or with zebrafish as a model organism for other animals or humans. Furthermore, this course will target students who are interested in the CRISPR/Cas technology and its application.
Content
The course will cover a basic understanding of fish biology. Gills, body shape, skin, other organs, and basic immunology will be introduced to the students. The participants will also be taught how to anesthetize and euthanize fish as well as how to confirm anesthesia and death. The students will learn by attending lectures and by handling fish.
To understand why the zebrafish is a unique model, a lecture will be given on husbandry including a description of biological characteristics advantageous for a vertebrate model organism. During this lecture examples will be provided of experiments where the zebrafish is utilized as an ideal model. The participants will have practical exercises handling fish, breeding zebrafish, collecting, and handling eggs and embryos.
Registration: Please register before 15th April