Thanks to Girish Kale (@girishkalephd.bsky.social) for reporting on our joint developmental biology meeting in Potsdam #GfE2026 #GfESEBDDSDB2026. enjoy the read: thenode.biologists.com/meeting-repo... looking forward to seeing you and @the-node.bsky.social at #GfE2028

Meeting report: Joint international GfE/DSDB/SEBD Meeting (GfE 2026) - the Node

Girish Kale reports on the recent joint international GfE/DSDB/SEBD meeting (GfE 2026).

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That's it: #GfE2026 #GfESEBDDSDB2026 is over. Thanks for the science, talks, posters, chairing, discussions, helpers in back & front. See you latest at #GfE2028 for more #DevBio & oidsks for all the fish, plants, mice, worm, flies, frogs, squids, brown algae, human, -oids, whatnots and you.

Salim Seyfried concludes the #GfESEBDDSDB2026 #GfE2026 meeting wrapping up the highlights. It was a beautiful and diverse meeting with the many different fields of developmental biology across all of nature.

The 11th and final session of #GfE2026 deals with "Regeneration and disease models" and is chaired by Jeroen Bakkers (@bakkerslab.bsky.social) & Nadia Mercader (@nadiamercader.bsky.social)

"Stem cells and organoids" is the topic of the Helmholtz Society-sponsored session 10 at #GfE2026 and chaired by Annette Hammes-Lewin (from @mdc-berlin.bsky.social) & Eloisa Herrera (@eloisaherrera.bsky.social)

No better way to start the 4th and final day of #GfESEBDDSDB2026 #GfE2026 than with the International Society for Developmental Biology (@isdb.bsky.social) - Cells & Development Lecture by Hans Clevers (@hansclevers.bsky.social) on "Organoids model human disease: 3D and 2D"

YEN 2026 registration is now live! Join us for the 2026 YEN conference on the 15th of June at the Francis Crick Institute, London, UK. Sign up now to attend and submit your poster/abstract: forms.gle/2HQEmZgEi4hP... Abstract submission deadline is 15 May. Stay tuned for more information!

The Hilde Mangold Prize of the German Society for Developmental Biology is awarded to Maik Bischoff (@maikbischoff.bsky.social) at #GfE2026 for his research on "Mesenchymal sculpting as a driver of chiral organ development" in Drosophila.

The GfE PhD Award 2026 goes to Tatiana Lebedeva (@tclebedeva.bsky.social) for her outstanding contribution to developmental biology. She presents the topic of her thesis on the "Role of β-Catenin signaling in germ layer specification in Cnidaria". #GfE2026

The #GfE2026 poster prizes go to Amulya Hejjaji (@amulyavhejjaji.bsky.social), Snigdha Bhardwaj (from @cosheidelberg.bsky.social) & Kaisa Pakari (@kpakari.bsky.social) for research on hematopoietic stem cell niche, cell adhesion in chimerism, and congenital disorders of glycosylation, respectively

Andreas Wodarz warmheartedly introduces Elisabeth Knust, the winner of the Klaus Sander Award of #GfE2026 for her lifetime achievements in devbio. Her groundbreaking scientific research contributed to elucidating molecular & cellular mechanisms underlying development of epithelial cell polarity.

The German & Spanish societies for Developmental Biology jointly award the José A.Campos-Ortega Prize shared between Lauren Saunders @lsaunders.bsky.social @cosheidelberg.bsky.social (in absence) & Noelia Antón Bolaños @bolanosanton.bsky.social @umcutrecht.bsky.social at the awards ceremony #GfE2026

#GfE2026 session 9 is on "Organogenesis and tissue development" chaired by Elke Ober (from @fau.de) & Andreas Kispert (MHHannover)

Alex Eve (@amjeve.uk) guides us through the Company of Biologists (@biologists.bsky.social) publishing formats and support options for scientists, career options and how to strengthen the devbio and stem cell communities at #GfE2026. Best way to stay up to date: join @the-node.bsky.social

Martin Blum (fromerly Uni Hohenheim) gives a mentoring session on "Excitement for the embryo" - once across the tree of life - keep your eyes open, follow your passion. #GfE2026

The topic of session 8 at #GfE2026 is "Evolutionary adaptations & #EvoDevo" and is chaired by Ulrich Technau (@ulrichtechnau.bsky.social) & Sofia Araujo (@sofiajaraujo.bsky.social)

Ina Sonnen (@sonnenlab.bsky.social) and Katja Rust (@rustflylab.bsky.social) chair session 7 of #GfE2026 on "Quantifying and modeling development"

Day 3 of #GfE2026 #GfESEBDDSDB2026 starts with the keynote lecture by Frank Bradke (from @dzne.science) showing "Mechanisms of axon growth and regeneration" in the mammalian context

second round of Poster flash talks at #gfe2026 by Kim Heilemann (@becklab.bsky.social), Sabine Klein (Friedrich Loeffler Institut), Katja Rust (@rustflylab.bsky.social), Daniel Barcenilla-Merino (from james hombria lab, @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social) and Chiau-Yuan Hsu (from @wittbrodtlab.bsky.social)

We are back with session 6 of #GfE2026 "Genetic and epigenetic control of development" chaired by Luca Braccioli (@bracciolilab.bsky.social) & Vincent Christoffels (from @amsterdamumc.bsky.social)

Wednesday afternoon at #GfE2026 - Kerstin Feistel (@kerstinfeistel.bsky.social) & Wolfgang Driever (from @uni-freiburg.de) chair the "Emergence and maintenance of patterns" session

In session 4 at #GfE2026 we continue with "Forces define form - mechanobiology II"

3rd session at #GfE2026 focuses on how "Forces define form - mechanobiology" is chaired by Dorothee Bornhorst-Ohmstede (@dorotheeb.bsky.social) & Jérôme Solon (@csic.es)

In her keynote Lecture, Isabel Fariñas (University of Valencia) details that "YAP/TAZ are required for stem cell quiescence in the adult brain" and how ECM adhesion induced quiescence is based on multiple cues that interact synergisitcally. #GfE2026

day 2 of #GfESEBDDSDB2026 #GfE2026 just started with the president of the SEBD Eloísa Herrera (@eloisaherrera.bsky.social) introducing the 2nd keynote lecture given by Isabel Fariñas (University of Valencia)

And now: Poster flash talks at #gfe2026 by Jorge Mañes-García (from @cbm-csic-uam.bsky.social), Benjamin Knüppel (from @bogdanlab.bsky.social), Isabel Pérez-Ferrer (from @eloisaherrera.bsky.social), Payel Banerjee (from @unipotsdam.bsky.social), and Katrin Domsch (@katrin-domsch.bsky.social)

We are entering session 2 of #gfe2026 to continue with "Fertilization and early development" chaired by Aydan Bulut-Karslıoğlu (@bulutkarslioglu.bsky.social) & Felix Gunawan (@gunawanlab.bsky.social)

Session 1 of #gfe2026 deals with "Fertilization and early development" and is chaired by Katja Röper @katjaroeper.bsky.social

First keynote lecture of #gfe2026 is given by Thomas Bosch (@uni-kiel.de) who presents "A microbial perspective on animal development and behaviour" - fascinating lessons from #hydra and the #microbiome

Welcome to the GfE Meeting 2026 joint with DSDB and SEBD in Potsdam. Salim Seyfried opens the #gfe2026 conference at Uni Potsdam. Let’s have amazing 4 days of science.