Next up is Martin Anger from the Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences with his talk: The Activity of APC/C During Metaphase II Arrest in Oocytes.
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Our next speaker is Anna Piliszek from the Institute of Genetics and Animal Biotechnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences with her talk: Trophectoderm Specification in the Rabbit Embryo – Acquisition of Polarity, Cavitation and the Role of ROCK.
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Last talk of the session is by Allan Akandwanaho from the Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, who will give a talk on Converting Molecular-Scale Torques to Cellular-Scale Chiral Counter-Rotatory Flows.
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The Non-Traditional Models and Evo-Devo session starts with a keynote talk by Michel C. Milinkovitch from the University of Geneva, who will be presenting his lab’s multidisciplinary research into Patterning: How Reptiles Got Their Looks!
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Next we look forward to hearing from Máté Varga
@mvargam from ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, who will tell us about the Evolution and Development of Breathing Strategies in Paradise Fish!
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We are also pleased to welcome Iryna Kozmiková from the Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences who talks about Vertebrate Head Evolution Informed by the Invertebrate Chordate Amphioxus.
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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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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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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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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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Last day starts with the invited talk "Clonal Reconstruction at Single Cell Level Helps to Decipher Embryonic Development" by Igor Adameyko of Karolinska Institute & Medical University of Vienna.
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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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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