CAVEFIN

8^th Annual Cavefish Meeting

We’re excited to announce the 8^th Astyanax International Meeting for Cavefish taking place February 28 - March 2, 2024. This biennial meeting will be in person in Fort Lauderdale, Florida at the B Ocean Resort. We strongly encourage participation from researchers generally interested in adaptation to extreme or new environments. Learn more here.

7^th Annual Cavefish Meeting

The 7^th Annual Cavefish Meeting was held February 27 - March 4, 2022 in San Antonio, Texas as a hybrid event at San Antonio Zoo.

6^th Annual Cavefish Meeting

The 6^th Annual Cavefish Meeting was held March 17 - 20, 2019 at Hotel Mision in Queretaro, Mexico. Horst Wikens (University of Hamburg) and Craig Albertson (University of Massachusetts) were the Keynote Speakers.

5^th Annual Cavefish Meeting

The 5^th cavefish meeting held in March 2017 in Santiago de Queretaro, Mexico was a great success! Visit the Rohner Lab Facebook Page to see event photos.

Visit MexicanCaves.org for a collection of previous meeting programs and abstracts.

Cavefish In The News

- Cavefish Metabolism Providing Insight Into Diabetes
- Weird Little ‘Walking’ Cavefish
- Stowers Report: 'Model Organisms'
- Binge-Eating Cavefish and Human Obesity
- Scientists Falling For Binge-Eating Cavefish

Want to work with cavefish in Mexico? Who doesn't?

Find new opportunities, jobs, field trips to study cavefish in beautiful Mexico.... Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Research Associate in Comparative Genomics

Cavefish PI Contact List - Get in touch with top researchers in the field.

Email list for all things cavefish related.
Reach a large audience of people interested in cavefish research by Emailing to: cavefishes@listserv.manchester.ac.uk (edited by Graham Proudlove).

If you want to be added to the list please contact: g.proudlove@manchester.ac.uk .

Biology and Evolution of the Mexican Cavefish

A comprehensive, unique work examining the use of the Mexican cavefish as a powerful model system to further understand basic biological processes such as eye degeneration, hearing, craniofacial development, sleep, and metabolic function. [available at the Elsevier Store]

• Encyclopedia of Caves (Second Edition)
• Cavefish of China (Li Ma and Ya-hui Zhao)
• More cavefish publications on PubMed
• View a list of additional cavefish publications

Protocols & Methods

Published resources describing all our laboratory or experimental procedures.

- Whole Mount in Situ Hybridization
- Model Species Developmental Staging Table
- DASPEI Neuromast staining
- Alizarin Red Staining

Links & Resources

Additional sites for cavefish research....

http://cavelife.info/
http://www.mexicancaves.org/
http://www.inegi.org.mx/
http://caves.org/
http://mocavelife.com/

Cavefishes.org.ukis a list of the subterranean fishes of the world, a searchable bibliography of >3000 entries, and several other lists of fishes.