⏳ Last week to apply! Join us at the 2026 V4SDB Student Summer School in Budapest - a great opportunity to connect with peers and explore spatial transcriptomics 🔥 🔗 Apply by June 21: v4sdb.org/2026-v4sdb-s...

V4SDB@v4sdb.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Curious about spatial transcriptomics? 🔬 Join the 2026 V4SDB Student Summer School, September 1–4 in beautiful Budapest 🇭🇺, and gain hands-on experience with this cutting-edge technology. 🧬 Apply by June 21! 🔗 v4sdb.org/2026-v4sdb-s...

Curious about spatial transcriptomics? 🔬 Join the 2026 V4SDB Student Summer School, September 1–4 in beautiful Budapest 🇭🇺, and gain hands-on experience with this cutting-edge technology. 🧬 Apply by June 21! 🔗 v4sdb.org/2026-v4sdb-s...

The photographs 📸 from the @v4sdb.bsky.social Meeting 2025 are available! Check out the photogallery at v4sdb2025.img.cas.cz/extras/ Many thanks to the photographers Viacheslav Zemlianski and Petr Vodička!

We took #V4SDB2025 all the way up… to the mountains 🏔️🔥 Thanks to everyone who joined our Post-Conference Mountain Adventure ❤️

Petra Kompanikova@petrakompanikova.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Big thanks to David Zimčík from the Buchtová lab, who guided our participants during the Post-Conference Mountain Adventure in the heart of the High Tatras, showing them the beauty of the cascading waterfalls — "Vodopády Studeného potoka"🌲💧

Congratulations to the winners of the @devdynamics.bsky.social prizes at the @v4sdb.bsky.social Meeting 2025! 🏅The best short talk: Allan Akandwanaho. 🏅The best poster: Zsanna Gecse, Denisa Belisova & Himanshi Singh. 👏👏👏

We are grateful to Visegrád Fund for sponsoring the Best chalk talk & Best poster prizes at the @v4sdb.bsky.social Meeting 2025. Congratulations to the winners: 🏅Chalk talks: Affifah Azimuddin Chogle, Adam Soos & Malgorzata Wojtaszek; 🏅Posters: Marcelina Osyra, Kriti Attri & Tomas Suchanek.👏

We are grateful to all our sponsors who made the V4SDB Meeting 2025 in 🇸🇰 possible and accessible, specifically Visegrád Fund, @biologists.bsky.social, @isdb.bsky.social, @cellsdev.bsky.social, @devdynamics.bsky.social, MUNI SCI, Allgene, BRIX, LABO-SK, and Merck Life Science. Thank you!

Wow, that was amazing! We thank everyone for attending the V4SDB 2025 meeting! You all made it an excellent conference, where we had the opportunity to hear from outstanding speakers,share ideas and experiences, and of course have some unforgettable time during social activities!

Please welcome our final speaker to the stage: Ádám Soós from Semmelweis University with his fascinating talk Exposure to Mesenchymal Growth Factors Enhances the Ability of Enteric Neural Stem Cells to Colonize the Avian Aganglionic Hindgut! #V4SDB2025 #conference #developmentalbiology #organoids

Next on the programme we have Irina Poverennaya of the @adameykolab.bsky.social at @meduniwien.ac.at, to share her knowledge on how rRNA-Modifications Connect Mesenchymal Fate Selection in Neural Crest and Prognosis in Neuroblastoma  #V4SDB2025 #conference #developmentalbiology #stemcells

Our next speaker - Anna Pulawska-Czub from the University of Warsaw. She presents a talk Unlocking Regeneration: The Potential of Nail Proximal Fold Stem Cells #V4SDB2025 #conference #developmentalbiology #evodevo #morphogenesis #regeneration

And we proceed with Radek Šindelka, Institute of Biotechnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, who will tell us about Identification of Regeneration Initiation Cells and Their Function #V4SDB2025 #conference #developmentalbiology #evodevo #morphogenesis #regeneration

The last invited speaker of the conference is none other than Han Li @hanli-pasteur.bsky.social from Institut Pasteur @pasteur.fr who will tell us about the Double-Edged Sword: Cellular Senescence in the Mammary Gland #V4SDB2025 #conference #developmentalbiology #stemcells #mammarygland #organoids

The rest of the session will be chaired by Zuzana Sumbalová Koledová @sumbalovakoledova.bsky.social from @imgprague.bsky.social - we are looking forward to this final set of talks! #V4SDB2025 #conference #developmentalbiology #evodevo #morphogenesis #organoids #stemcells #plasticity

And we proceed with an exciting talk by Krzysztof Kobielak from the University of Warsaw, The BMP-ID2 Axis Reveals a Reversible Hair Follicle Stem Cells Gene Network That Regulates Intrinsic Oscillations Between Opposing States During Hair Regeneration #V4SDB2025 #conference

We start with an invited talk Clonal Reconstruction at Single Cell Level Helps to Decipher Embryonic Development by Igor Adameyko @adameykolab.bsky.social, Karolinska Institute @ki.se & Medical University of Vienna @meduniwien.ac.at

Welcome to the day 3! We start with a session Stem cells and plasticity, chaired by Nàndor Nagy, Semmelweis University. Grab some coffee and join us! #V4SDB2025 #conference #developmentalbiology #evodevo #morphogenesis #organoids

Conferences aren’t only for science but also to have fun with colleagues and making new friends. What better time for this than the gala dinner on our last evening together! Keep an eye out, the evening has only just begun! #V4SDB2025 #conference #developmentalfriendships #galadinner

Last but certainly not least, the final talk of the day is on Ancient Pharyngeal Proto-Pituitary in Embryos of Basal Fishes held by Agáta Horáčková from Charles University! @charlesuni.cuni.cz @sciencecharles.bsky.social #V4SDB2025 #conference #developmentalbiology #evodevo

To tell us about his lab’s research into Missing Genetics in the Classical Developmental Model: Filling the Gap Using Primordial Germ Cells and Gene Editing in Chickens, we have Jiří Hejnar from @imgprague.bsky.social! #V4SDB2025 #conference #developmentalbiology #evodevo

Our next speaker Abigail Tucker from King’s College London and @charlesuni.cuni.cz @sciencecharles.bsky.social. Her talk about the evolution of suckling compares the development in several mammals #V4SDB2025 #conference #developmentalbiology #evodevo

#V4SDBMeeting2025 is family friendly & makes science attractive & accessible to our youngest participants from @sumbalovakoledova.bsky.social lab. Many thanks to Michel C. Milinkovitch @lanevol.bsky.social for the illustrative 3D printed models of 🐊 snout patterning!

And here is Gage Crump @crumplab.bsky.social, all the way from @usc.edu, to tell us about Cross-Species Single-Cell Approaches to Facial Development and Evolution. A big thanks to @isdb.bsky.social @cellsdev.bsky.social @devdynamics.bsky.social for sponsoring the talk! #V4SDB2025 #evodevo

After a refreshing coffee break and some snacks, our new chair for the second half of this session is Máté Varga @mvargam.bsky.social from ELTE Eötvös Loránd University #V4SDB2025 #conference #developmentalbiology #evodevo #morphogenesis

We are pleased to welcome Iryna Kozmiková from the Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences @imgprague.bsky.social to talk about Vertebrate Head Evolution Informed by the Invertebrate Chordate Amphioxus #V4SDB2025 #developmentalbiology #evodevo

Next we look forward to hearing from Máté Varga @mvargam.bsky.social from ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, who will tell us about the Evolution and Development of Breathing Strategies in Paradise Fish! #V4SDB2025 #developmentalbiology #evodevo

Our invited speaker for this session is Michel C. Milinkovitch @lanevol.bsky.social from the University of Geneva @biology-unige.bsky.social, who will be presenting his lab’s multidisciplinary research into Patterning: How Reptiles Got Their Looks! #V4SDB2025 #developmentalbiology #evodevo

Welcome to the third session of this conference, Non-Traditional Models and Evo-Devo, which will be chaired by Marcela Buchtová of @masarykuniversity.bsky.social #V4SDB2025 #conference #developmentalbiology #evodevo

The poster session is ongoing! Join us to enjoy wonderful data and share experiences with your colleagues! #V4SDB2025 #developmentalbiology #evodevo #organoids

Head downstairs for another opportunity to see the vast range of research into #developmentalbiology our participants are carrying out - today we have another 57 posters for you to enjoy, so make sure you don’t miss out! #V4SDB #conference #evodevo #organoids