Model organisms such as zebrafish are vitally important in answering basic questions of developmental cell biology and signalling, and those built for distance and not speed may just have a few more prickles.

ALS previews the Hunter Cellular Biology Meeting, which starts tomorrow.

Peter Klinken and his team are studying key decision makers in blood cell differentiation and leukaemia.

After becoming an epigenetics convert four years ago at Lorne and winning the Eppendorf Young Investigator's Award there two years ago, Dr Jeff Craig returns to Lorne in 2008 as an invited speaker to present the fruits of his conversion.

Frances Shannon tells the Lorne protein conference about the role of architectural proteins and how the packaging of DNA in the cell nucleus controls immune-related gene expression.

Genomics is old hat and proteomics is now where it's at, according to Richard Christopherson.

The Australasian Society for Immunology is holding its annual conference this week. Key note speaker Andreas Strasser will discuss his latest findings on the functions of apoptosis-related proteins in the immune system.

Neurologist Ken Kosik and his team are profiling neuronal miRNAs to identify those potentially involved in neuronal plasticity and the function of those that are unique to dendrites.

The Australian Research Network for Fluorescence Applications in Biotechnology and Life Sciences (FABLS) has access to a staggering array of Australian and overseas instrumentation and expertise in fluorescence technology and applications.

Rob Learmonth is using his fluorescence expertise to help the most needy - Australia's beer and wine drinkers.

Fish is brain food and for most of us that means eating it. For Michael Lardelli, zebrafish are also helping us understand the human brain.