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Training mouse pathologists: 16th annual workshop on the pathology of mouse models of human disease

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The 16th annual workshop, Pathology of Mouse Models of Human Disease, was held at the High Seas Conference Center at The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, ME on 1–6 October 2017. This has become a regular, small, and focused meeting aimed at training the next generation of pathologists to develop, phenotype, and validate mouse models of a wide variety of human diseases. The faculty discussed the use of mice for modeling human diseases for understanding the causes and pathogenesis (mechanisms) of disease, developing therapies, and methods of prevention. Discussions included all disease classifications: genetic, infectious, immune mediated, degenerative, aging, cancer, and many others, concentrating on specific models developed by the faculty, and usually focused around an organ system.

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Figure 1: Participants in the 2017, 16th annual Pathology of Mouse Models of Human Disease course outside the High Seas Conference Center in Bar Harbor, ME.

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Acknowledgements

The authors thank Erin McDevitt and Charles Wray, JAX Genomic Education, The Jackson Laboratory, who provided critical logistical support to hold these workshops. This workshop series was supported directly or indirectly by grants from the National Institutes of Health (R13 OD010920; R01 CA089713; R01 CA182413; R01CA197160), NYSTEM (C029155), Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI 56008371), and mentorship awards from the American Hair Research Society.

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    John P Sundberg

  2. Departments of Comparative Medicine and Pathology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

    Kelli Boyd

  3. Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine, West Lafayette, IN

    Harm Hogenesch

  4. Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, Ithaca, NY

    Alexander Yu Nikitin

  5. Departments of Comparative Medicine and Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

    Piper M Treuting

  6. Global VetPathology, Montgomery Village, MD

    Jerrold M Ward

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Sundberg, J., Boyd, K., Hogenesch, H. et al. Training mouse pathologists: 16th annual workshop on the pathology of mouse models of human disease. Lab Anim 47, 38–40 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/laban.1399

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