Early registration cost is $15 for undergraduate and graduate students and $30 for faculty and post-doctoral researchers if your register by February 17th at this site.

Abstract submissions are due by February 8th, 2023

Speakers and Workshops

Keynote Speaker

Dr. Cody Smith from Notre Dame University’s Center for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine will talk on Pioneering events that construct the nervous system

Student Workshop

Dr. Sharon Amacher from Ohio State University will run an excellent session on the graduate school admission process. Several graduate programs will also have representatives at the meeting.

Faculty/Postdoc/Student Workshop

Mr. Bill Kilgore from Aquaneering will facilitate a workshop and roundtable discussion on zebrafish facilities and husbandry. This workshop will be geared toward faculty and postdocs who lead (or will lead) zebrafish laboratories and/or planning construction or renovation of a zebrafish facility. We ask that faculty and postdocs attending OHZU fill out this short survey to help plan the workshop: https://forms.gle/kUBCyZGky4VTHikQA

Participating Graduate Programs

Cincinnati Children’s Molecular and Developmental Biology

The Ohio State University (Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and Molecular Genetics)

Additional Programs will be confirmed soon

We are thankful for the support of Charles River, Danio Lab and Aquaneering as sponsors of our conference.

Housing at the meeting:

Holiday Inn Express

11555 Upper Gilchrist Rd, Mount Vernon, OH

(740) 392-1900

Kenyon Inn

100 W. Wiggin Street, Gambier, OH

(740) 427-2202

Comfort Inn

150 Howard Street, Mount Vernon, Ohio

(740) 392-6886