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
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.
Juliane Münch (from @unipotsdam.bsky.social) concludes the session by presenting how "Fibrin defines tissue stiffness and biomechanical signalling in regenerating zebrafish hearts as revealed by high-resolution stiffness mapping" #GfE2026
Miguel Angel Garitagoitia-Romero (from @nadiamercader.bsky.social lab) gives a talk on "Comparison of cardiac regeneration capacity between Zebrafish and Medaka reveals significant regenerative response in both teleost species" #GfE2026
Jana Fuss (from @wittbrodtlab.bsky.social)is „Unraveling the genetics of spinal cord regeneration in a high-throughput injury screen of the Medaka-Inbred-Kiyosu-Karlsruhe (MIKK) panel" #GfE2026
Chi-Chung Wu (www.ccwulab.com) reports "Endothelial-cardiomyocyte crosstalk via Endothelin-1 signaling drives chamber-specific mouse cardiomyocyte polyploidy during postnatal heart development" #GfE2026
Susanne Önel (from @unimarburg.bsky.social) presents her research on "The role of mitochondrial fission during myoblast fusion and tissue regeneration" in Drosophila #GfE2026
Ani Grigoryan (from @uniulm.bsky.social) presents her work on "Bone formation and fracture healing; new approaches to improve the regeneration of aging bones"
at #GfE2026
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)
Jochen Rink (from @mpi-nat.bsky.social) investigates a "Competition phenomena during planarian tissue turnover- a new bag of worms" at #GfE2026
Teresa Rayón (@trayon.bsky.social) is "Exploring the role of protein metabolism in developmental tempo" #GfE2026
Kerstin Bartscherer (from University of Osnabrück) discusses "Skin regeneration and disease: lessons from spiny mice and human in vitro models" #GfE2026
"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"
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This prize recognizes his outstanding role as a successful early-career scientist in German developmental biology. In his groundbreaking scientific research, Maik Bischoff contributed to elucidating molecular and cellular mechanisms during collective cell migration of muscle cells in Drosophila.
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
In her award lecture, Elisabeth Knust provides an overview of the history of developmental biology but also highlights the privilege to perform curiosity driven research, which is only possible with the support of colleagues, students, family & friends with their encouraging and challenging thoughts
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 1st shared José A. Campos-Ortega Award Lecture is given by Noelia Antón Bolaños "Navigating cortical development: From animal systems to human brain models" demonstrating that genetic variety in so-called "chimeroids" is providing robustness by averaging out line and batch effects #GfE2026
The presidents of the societies Salim Seyfried & Eloisa Herrera @sebioldev.bsky.social introduce the winners for outstanding roles as successful early-career scientists in developmental neurobiology. Lauren Saunders will present on the next conference, Noelia Anton Bolaños presents her research …
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
Sofia J. Araújo (@sofiajaraujo.bsky.social) concludes the session with her talk on „Centrosome loss in embryonic development disrupts axonal pathfinding and muscle integrity." in Drosophila #GfE2026
Kim Boutilier (from @w-u-r.bsky.social) researches how "A conserved BABY BOOM motif prevents asexual embryogenesis" in arabidopsis. #GfE2026
Anne-Kathrin Classen (@classenlab.bsky.social) uses Drosophila to research "Local repair, systemic rules: coordinating growth during regeneration" #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