Working Group 3
The European rabbit as a model in basic biology and human diseases and as a tool for biotechnology applications
The rabbit is the third laboratory mammals after the mouse and the rat. A large number of basic and applied research studies have been conducted using rabbits. Several characteristics make the rabbit a more appropriate model than the rodents in different biomedical aspects, however a better definition of this issue is needed. One of the limits that have prevented use of the rabbit in biomedical disciplines more widely, has been the lack of a sequenced genome and related tools. WG3 will transfer tools developed in WG1 to basic research studies and to improve biotechnology applications derived via exploitation of various aspects of rabbit biology.
Members
Group leader: Prof. Zsuzsanna Bősze (Hungary)
- Prof. Melih Aksoy (Turkey)
- Prof. Cristiano Boiti (Italy)
- Prof. Darko Bosnakovski (The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia)
- Prof. Cesare Castellini (Italy)
- Prof. Peter Chrenek (Slovakia)
- Dr. Jean-Jacques David (France)
- Dr. Eve Devinoy (France)
- Prof. Martin Faldyna (Czech Republic)
- Prof. Jianglin Fan (Japan)
- Prof. Bernd Fischer (Germany)
- Prof. Luca Fontanesi (Italy)
- Dr. Alexandre Fouassier (France)
- Prof. Ivan Penchev Georgiev (Bulgaria)
- Prof. Teodora Georgieva (Bulgaria)
- Dr. Elen Gócza (Hungary)
- Dr. Laszlo Hiripi (Hungary)
- Orsolya Ivett Hoffmann (Hungary)
- Dr. Thierry Joly (France)
- Dr. Imre Kacskovics (Hungary)
- Prof. Adriana Kolesarova (Slovakia)
- Dr. Eric Lacoste (France)
- Dr. Catherine Nolan (Ireland)
- Dr. Katja Odening (Germany)
- Dr. Jean-Marc Roussel (France)
- Dr. Anne Navarrete Santos (Germany)
- Dr. Pierre Savatier (France)
- Dr. Maria Schindler (Germany)
- Dr. Britta Schönnagel (Germany)
- Prof. Alexander Sirotkin (Slovakia)
- Dr. Domenico Spina (United Kingdom)
- Dr. Ekaterina Vachkova (Bulgaria)
- Prof. Christoph Viebahn (Germany)
- Dr. Jan Wikgren (Finland)
- Dr. Hsi-Hsun Wu (Taiwan)
- Dr. Attila Zsolnai (Hungary)
Tasks
- Development of a database on the use of the rabbit as model in basic biology and in human diseases.
- Application of genomic tools and information to the study of basis biology aspects and for the exploitation of different rabbit models.
- Exploitation of rabbit genetic resources to define natural models of human diseases.
- . Rabbit as a model/tool for biotechnology applications.
