Congratulations to our postdoc @nikhil-mishra.bsky.social for winning an award for his fantastic talk on 'Zygote geometry-driven asymmetric cell divisions pattern cell cycles and zygotic genome activation' at #DevStem2025 @impvienna.bsky.social! Way to go, Nikhil! 🥳🙌

At the end of #DevStem2025 @viennabiocenter.bsky.social @vbcscitraining.bsky.social, the organizing committee gave out the presentation awards to six happy winners. Many thanks to @gfeev.bsky.social for sponsoring the prizes and the subsequent networking meeting!

Happy to have presented our evolving story at #DevStem2025. Exciting stuff on the way :)

The final presentation of #DevStem2025 @viennabiocenter.bsky.social is given by Joanna Jachowicz @jjachowicz.bsky.social from @imbavienna.bsky.social, shedding light onto the mechanisms by which long #RNAs expressed from the “dark genome” can become switches for developmental control.

Nikhil @nikhil-mishra.bsky.social from @heisenbergcplab.bsky.social concludes the late afternoon session of #DevStem2025 with a careful analysis of mitotic waves in early #zebrafish development, their regulation by cell geometry & impact on zygotic #transcription. Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

At #DevStem2025, Theresa Maxian from Sandra Haider’s group at #MedUniWien now discusses the emergence of cell types in human placental development, capitalizing on #scRNAseq and various staining techniques. More on placental biology in the recent publication doi.org/10.1016/j.pl...

Kick-off of the late afternoon session at the #DevStem2025 meeting. Sanjay Narayanaswamy @sanjay-n.bsky.social from @ulrichtechnau.bsky.social lab discusses germ layer biology in #Nematostella, exploring a powerful gastruloid system. For a primer on gastruloids, see doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...

Sabrina Villar Pazos from Sofia Grade’s lab @imbavienna.bsky.social closes the first afternoon session of #DevStem2025 @viennabiocenter.bsky.social with research testing the neurodevelopmental hypothesis of Huntington's disease.

The afternoon session of #DevStem2025 @viennabiocenter.bsky.social is continued by Helena Bragulat-Teixidor from the @shotarootsuka.bsky.social lab, using high-resolution EM and CLEM to interrogate the junctions btw. nuclear envelope and endoplasmitic reticulum. Read more at doi.org/10.1038/s443...

The afternoon session of #DevStem2025 @viennabiocenter.bsky.social has begun. First speaker: Lidija Milojković from Noelia Urbán’s lab @imbavienna.bsky.social, presenting on the interplay of molecular pathways regulating #quiescence and activation of adult neural #StemCells in the mammalian CNS.

In the final talk of the #DevStem2025 @viennabiocenter.bsky.social morning session, Stavros Papadopoulos from Lora Sweeney’s group at @istaresearch.bsky.social presents on #development and evolution of rostrocaudal circuits and their molecular regulation.

Kyojiro Ikeda @beingkyo.bsky.social @univie.ac.at presenting now at #DevStem2025 @viennabiocenter.bsky.social on first mechanistic & molecular regulators of #bristle biogenesis in the #Platynereis model. Also check Kyojiro's recent @naturecomms.bsky.social publication www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It is Leonie @leonieadelmann.bsky.social ‘s turn now at #DevStem2025 to present progress in decoding the modulation of #regeneration in Platynereis dumerilii. Pls. check www.nature.com/articles/s41... for our recent study, and bsky.app/profile/tess... for our @vbcscitraining.bsky.social PhD opening!

Carina Seidl from Elly Tanaka's lab @imbavienna.bsky.social presents at #DevStem2025 @viennabiocenter.bsky.social now on research into functional motor circuit #regeneration in the #axolotl system.

Carolina Atria from Roger Revilla’s lab @univie.ac.at now diving into the molecular details of #StemCells and their regulation in the sponge model Suberites domuncula during the morning session of #DevStem2025 @viennabiocenter.bsky.social

Now at #DevStem2025, Anastasia Chugunova from @pauligroup.bsky.social group reports on changes in mitochondria over early fish development. Check out the recent preprint at doi.org/10.1101/2024...

A beautiful spring outside, and a colorful bouquet of model systems and topics at display in the morning session of #DevStem2025 now at the @impvienna.bsky.social @viennabiocenter.bsky.social, ranging from sponges and annelids to fishes, amphibians and mammals.

First keynote at #DevStem2025 by Andi @pauligroup.bsky.social @impvienna.bsky.social @viennabiocenter.bsky.social on conserved and divergent mechanisms of vertebrate egg-sperm interactions. Also check out recent the study by Deneke et al. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

Meeting at the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social today for this year's Vienna region #DevStem2025 meeting! Many thanks to co-organizers Sofia Grade (IMBA), Paulina Latos (MUW), @dianapinheiro.bsky.social & @heisenbergcplab.bsky.social, institutional sponsors, @gfeev.bsky.social and all helpers!