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#GFE2026 reflections & experiences shared by our #SEBD travel awardees 🌍✨
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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
Meeting report: Joint international GfE/DSDB/SEBD Meeting #GfE2026
@girishkalephd.bsky.social recently attended #GfE2026, and in this post on the Node, you can feel like you were there too👀.
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I wrote a meeting report on #GfE2026. It ended up being a bit of an opinion piece, where I talk about my problems with how poster sessions are organised, and some thoughts on the future of research in model organisms.
Hope you enjoy reading it :)
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Amulya collecting her first place Best Poster Prize!
(left to right) Myself, Amulya, and Newsha at the conference.
The acknowledgement slide from Newsha's interesting talk
A group photo of the attendees of the Meeting
Fantastic talks and chats at the #GfE2026 #GfESEBDDSDB2026! with @gfeev.bsky.social @sebioldev.bsky.social #DSDB
Thanks to the organizers for giving Newsha Mortazavi a chance to share her cool work. Congrats to @amulyavhejjaji.bsky.social for winning Best Poster Prize. So proud of both students!
This was a great meeting! What a fantastic way to celebrate #DevBio with our #GfE and #DSDB colleagues at #GfESEBDDSBD2026 Thank you all for the #science , the discussions and all the fun! See you all again soon! #GfE2026
On the way back to the lab 🥼🧫 after four days of amazing science, discussions, fun, meeting friends & colleagues. A lot of ideas, concepts, and tools to reflect on - #DevBio rocks!🚀💫
Great thanks to all organisers and participants for coming together and making #Gfe2026 an unforgettable experience!
And #gfe2026 comes to an end!
Thanks to the organisers from @gfeev.bsky.social, @sebioldev.bsky.social & DSDB, and all the speakers and delegates for a really fun and interesting meeting.
Delighted that @dev-journal.bsky.social and @biologists.bsky.social could be involved!
..I'll stop typing now
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.
More zebrafish heart regeneration at #gfe2026. Juliane Münch explains that scars are stiffer than healthy tissue & shows that regenerated heart tissue has region-specific mechanical properties, with stiffer regions exhibiting high fibrin deposition that activates mechanosensitive responses in cells.
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
Two species of ray-finned fish, zebrafish & medaka, can and cannot regenerate hearts, respectively. Miguel Angel Garitagoitia-Romero compares injury response between species to find permissive regeneration cues, showing more scarring & fewer vessels in regenerated medaka hearts than zfish. #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
Using inbred families of Japanese rice fish (medaka), Jana Fuss employs a high-throughput assay to find strains that regenerate well after spinal injury (determined by swimming behaviour) and will map their genomes to identify DNA regions associated with this regenerative potential. #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
Mitochondria adopt a variety of shapes depending on cellular energy demand through fission and fusion events. Muscle cells also fuse to produce multinuclear 'myoblasts'. Susanne Önel shows mitochondrial fission is dynamically controlled during fly myoblast fusion and frog tail regeneration. #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
Bones regenerate relatively well after fracture, but this declines with age. @agrigoryan.bsky.social uses engineered human bone models to show skeletal stem cells from aged donors produce cartilage, marrow & bone less effectively, & changes in aging blood stem cells increase inflammation. #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
Planarian flatworms are highly regenerative. Stem cells are distributed throughout the body that renew all tissues, including the germline, meaning mutations in stem cells can be passed to future generations. Jochen Rink asks whether stem cells compete by transplanting them between animals. #gfe2026
Last morning of #GfESEBDDSDB2026 and a session on Stem cells and organoids where our board member @trayon.bsky.social gave a fantastic talk on her most recent results on protein metabolism in developmental tempo #gfe2026
Mice and human embryos look similar at some stages of development, but the time to reach those stages differs. @trayon.bsky.social asks how developmental tempo emerges, showing species-specific protein turnover correlates w/ developmental speeds & might link other factors, like metabolism. #gfe2026
Teresa @trayon.bsky.social from Cambridge is presenting new advances into the analysis of divergent protein stability as an explanation for the different developmental tempos in different mammalian species at @gfeev.bsky.social #gfe2026. Check out the preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Teresa Rayón (@trayon.bsky.social) is "Exploring the role of protein metabolism in developmental tempo" #GfE2026
How can skin repair without scarring? Kerstin Bartscherer learns from spiny mice, which frequently suffer large wounds from predatory snake bites that fully regenerate both skin and hair. Comparing spiny mice, lab mice and gerbils, Kerstin shows immune cells are involved in regeneration. #gfe2026
Kerstin Bartscherer (from University of Osnabrück) discusses "Skin regeneration and disease: lessons from spiny mice and human in vitro models" #GfE2026
