Aaaand it’s a wrap! 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! We're grateful to each and every of you, and hope to see you all at the next V4SDB meeting in Prague, 2027!

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Penultimate speaker of the session (and of the meeting) is Irina Poverennaya of the Adameyko lab at MedUni Wien, to share her knowledge on how rRNA-Modifications Connect Mesenchymal Fate Selection in Neural Crest and Prognosis in Neuroblastoma.
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Next speaker - Anna Pulawska-Czub from the University of Warsaw. She presents a talk titled "Unlocking Regeneration: The Potential of Nail Proximal Fold Stem Cells".

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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.

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Third talk and last invited speaker of the conference is none other than Han Li from Institut Pasteur who will tell us about the Double-Edged Sword: Cellular Senescence in the Mammary Gland.
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Second talk is 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”.
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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!

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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 IMP Prague!
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Our next speaker Abigail Tucker from King’s College London and Charles University in Prague. Her talk about the evolution of suckling compares the development in several therian mammals.
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Second keynote of the session is by Gage Crump, from USC, who will tell us about Cross-Species Single-Cell Approaches to Facial Development and Evolution. A big thanks to
ISDB and Cells and Development for sponsoring the talk!
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