Building bridges with zebrafish: highlights of the ‘Zebrafish Models in Translational Medicine’ meeting

Inspired by the growing prominence of the zebrafish model in biomedical research, EuFishBioMed ( www.eufishbiomed.kit.edu/ ) and ZF-HEALTH ( zf-health.org/ ) recently joined forces to organise a meeting with the primary aim of forging collaborations between the established ‘zebrafish community’ and newcomers that hope the model will shed light on unanswered questions in their disease area. The 3-day meeting, ‘Zebrafish Models in Translational Medicine’, which was co-sponsored by Disease Models & Mechanisms (DMM), was held in a small town in the outskirts of Paris (Gif-sur-Yvette). With no more than 100 participants, opportunities for networking were plentiful.