Wade Sugden
@sugden_wade
Developmental biologist, North Lab, @BCHStemCell, zebrafish blood and blood vessel development, runner, reader, musician and lover of the natural world we have!
Hey @ZDMSociety! One more week to sign up for the #zdmsECI committee's ZDMS Mentoring Initiative 2025/26!! Share with your trainees and anyone working with #zebrafish looking for career development! ZDMS membership here zdmsociety.org/membership-sig…, mentoring by QR code by Nov 7th!

Thrilled to be back from an awesome @ZDMSociety annual meeting #ZDM17! A big Thank You to the #zdmsECI for all their work in a great year of events and activities! If you want to join, the recruitment email went out TODAY (DM me if you didn't get it!) Love to see new faces!
Lipids! Macrophages! Cancer! Therapies! @furniest’s talk will have it all. Check out Gabriel’s research about how lipid-laden macrophages can be harnessed for glioblastoma therapy at #ZDM17 on October 10. I am biased, but I think Gabriel’s work is very cool! @ZDMSociety #zdmsECI
Happy Friday @ZDMSociety. Check out Anais Hubart's talk titled "Unraveling the pathophysiology of virus-associated pulmonary aspergillosis (VAPA) using zebrafish larvae" on October 8th from 5:10 to 5:25pm. #zdmsECI
#zdmsECI is excited to highlight our very own Dr. Shipra Bhatia. Check out her talk titled "Unravelling the cell-type specific roles of disease-associated mutations in the noncoding regulatory genome" on October 9th from 2:35-2:50pm. @ZDMSociety
Interested in clinical studies directed towards personalized medicine? Tune in to Bruna Costa’s talk at #ZDM17 on October 9, 3:20-3:35 pm, to hear about zAvatar test that forecasts patient treatment outcomes in colorectal cancer. @ZDMSociety #zdmsECI
Happy weekend @ZDMSociety! Interested in new collaborating oncogenic drivers in acute lymphoblastic leukemia? Don’t miss out on @JamesRAllen6’s talk at #ZDM17! #zdmsECI
Happy Monday @ZDMSociety! Tired of manual injections? Don’t miss out on Yi Ding’s talk titled, “Advancing Zebrafish High-Throughput Screening: An Automated Microinjection and Imaging Platform for Xenograft and Infection Models” on October 10, 9:20-9:35 am. #ZDM17 #zdmsECI
#zdmsECI committee extends a warm welcome to Nadine Azzam. At #ZDM17, Nadine will present her research on high-risk pediatric cancer models in larval zebrafish, mouse, and short-term culture to predict individual patient responses to therapy. October 10, 1:50-2:05 pm. @ZDMSociety
Interested in innate lymphoid cells? Check out Anastasia Nizhnik’s talk titled "Identifying the Origins of Innate Lymphoid Cells in Zebrafish Development” on October 9th from 9:20 to 9:35am. @ZDMSociety #zdmsECI
Happy weekend @ZDMSociety! Today, we welcome @Kazuh_ideA, who will give a talk on autophagic flux in ALS-vulnerable motor neurons following TDP-43 loss of function. Join Kazu and check out his gorgeous microscopy images on October 9, 4:55-5:10 pm at #ZDM17. #zdmsECI.
Hey @zdmsociety. Check out Ellie Meador's talk titled “Bnip3lb-associated mitophagy regulates ROS-mediated depletion of the embryonic hematopoietic stem cell pool” on October 9th from 11:45 to 12pm.#zdmsECI
Next featured speaker at the @ZDMSociety annual meeting: meet @vin.torraca, who will tell us about Shigella serotypes associated with carriage in humans and how they establish persistent infection in zebrafish. Join us at #ZDM17 on October 9, 12:00-12:15 pm. #zdmsECI
Happy weekend @ZDMSociety! If you are attending #ZDM17, don’t miss out on Yiyue Zhang’s talk titled, “Deciphering eosinophilopoiesis in zebrafish” on October 8, 4:40-4:55 pm. #zdmsECI
#zdmsECI is delighted to introduce Fanny Nobilleau, who will present her research in a talk titled: “RFC1, a gene involved in late-onset ataxia, regulates cerebellar neurogenesis in zebrafish” on October 8, 2:20-2:35 pm. #ZDM17 @ZDMSociety
Next, #zdmsECI is excited to highlight Dr. Usua Oyarbide. Check out her talk titled "Salvage pathways for cardiac and skeletal myopathies but not neutropenia in tafazzin-deficient zebrafish" on October 9th from 4:25 to 4:40pm. @ZDMSociety
Happy Monday @Zdmssociety. Up next, we will be highlighting Dr. Benjamin Martin, who will be giving a talk titled "Auxin inducible protein degradation in zebrafish" on October 10th from 9:35am to 9:50am. #zdmsECI
“Are gut and brain aetiological mechanisms in ASD-related co-morbidities linked?” Lesha Pretorius will ask this fantastic question at #ZDM17 on October 9, 5:10-5:25 pm. Don’t miss her talk in the Neurobiology session of @ZDMSociety annual meeting! #zdmsECI
Interested in generating knock-in zebrafish? Check out Elyne De Neef's talk titled “Prime editing outperforms optimized homology-directed repair as a tool for knock-in generation in zebrafish" on October 10th from 9:50 to 10:05am. @zdmsociety #zdmsECI
Happy Monday @ZDMSociety! #zdmsECI extends a warm welcome to Lucy Copper at #ZDM17! Lucy will give a talk titled, “Exploring drivers of disease progression in a GATA2 deficiency zebrafish model”, on October 9, 9:50-10:05 am.