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Advancing developmental biology in Central Europe: report from the V4SDB meeting 2025 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41378468/ #EvoDevo

Advancing developmental biology in Central Europe: report from the V4SDB meeting 2025 - PubMed

Hosted in the scenic surroundings of the High Tatras, the V4SDB Meeting 2025 represented the fourth biennial conference of the Visegrád Group Society for Developmental Biology. The meeting brought together over 170 researchers covering a multidisciplinary range of topics, from early development and …

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V4SDB Oct 29

Máté Varga Oct 29

This essay, by Nektarios Tavernarakis president of EMBC, is one of the best opinion pieces on the importance of frontier science that I have read recently.
https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.1038/s44319-025-00587-2

Money quote:
"We are currently burning through a stockpile of knowledge accumulated during a more enlightened era of public investment, while allocating insufficient resources for replenishing it."

(Side note: sadly no (active) EMBL accounts seem to be left on Mastodon, so can’t tag them either :-/.)

V4SDB Oct 15

@Co_Biologists Oct 15

1925 #OnThisDate 100 years ago, The Company of Biologists is founded.
Read https://bit.ly/46NlQ2B

1930 BJEB is renamed Journal of Experimental Biology.

1966 QJMS is renamed Journal of Cell Science

1987 JEEM is renamed Development

2008 DMM founded

2010 the Node

2010 The Company of Biologists Workshops begin

2012 BiO first issue

2018 preLights

2020 FocalPlane

2023 The Forest of Biologists

2024 First Global South Workshop

Thank you to everyone for their continued support

V4SDB Sep 13, 2025

For those interested in these kind of things, the final report on the 2025 V4SDB Student Winter School is now available. https://www.v4sdb.org/2025-v4sdb-student-winter-school-report

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V4SDB Sep 8, 2025

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!

#V4SDB2025 #conference #developmentalbiology #morphogenesis #organoids #evodevo

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V4SDB Sep 8, 2025

The final speaker is 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!

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V4SDB Sep 8, 2025

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.
#V4SDB2025 #conference #developmentalbiology #stemcells

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V4SDB Sep 7, 2025

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".

#V4SDB2025 #conference #developmentalbiology #evodevo #morphogenesis #regeneration

V4SDB Sep 7, 2025

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

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V4SDB Sep 7, 2025

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.
#V4SDB2025 #conference #developmentalbiology #stemcells #mammarygland #organoids