Gesellschaft für Entwicklungsbiologie e.V.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Florian Raible (@tessmarraiblelabs.bsky.social) conlcudes the session with his talk on "More than meets the eye: Light-modulated stem cells in the camera-type eye of an annelid model for adult brain plasticity" #GfE2026

Christoph Gerhardt (from HMU Potsdam) presents that "The primary cilium governs programmed cell death via its proteasome-regulating function"

Gert Jan C. Veenstra (@gertjanveenstra.bsky.social‬) investigates "Heart evolution and development" during squid embryogenesis #GfE2026

Felicity Jones (@gelifes.bsky.social) makes us revisit "evolutionary tinkering with gene regulation: cis-regulation and pleiotropic constraints shape adaptive divergence" as understood from marine and freshwater sticklebacks

Isabel Almudí (@isabelalmudi.bsky.social) "Oh my what big (and new) eyes you have!" - insights from the mayfly Cloeon dipterum on the development of a peculiar set of eyes

Christian Schröter (@schroeterfisch.bsky.social) shows how "Species-specific developmental speed is associated with differences in glycogen metabolism"

Leo Otsuki (@leootsuki.bsky.social) shows "Principles of 3D tissue assembly derived from regenerative axolotl cells" at #GfE2026

Jesse Veenvliet (@jesseveenvliet.bsky.social) is "Building towards understanding: leveraging stem-cell-based models to elucidate principles of development" using gastruloids

final talk of todaya at #GfE2026 is by Asalbanoo Farahvashi (from @panakovalab.bsky.social) detailing that "Actin capping protein CAPZB plays a critical role in cardiac development and congenital heart defects" in zebrafish

Grigory Genikhovich (@genikhovich.bsky.social) shows that "Sox3 acts as a transcriptional repressor of FoxA maintaining the conserved ectoderm/endoderm boundary in the sea anemone." #GfE2026

Gabriel Rodrigues Cavalheiro (from @molgen.mpg.de, Mundlos lab) is "Deciphering the cis-regulatory code of developmental signaling centers with rare-cell type genomics and deep learning" - demonstrating how computational approaches help understanding of dynamic biological processes

Luca Braccioli (@bracciolilab.bsky.social) "A dual role for CTCF in development" identified studying gastruloids

due to Álvaro Rada-Iglesias ’ (@radaiglesiaslab.bsky.social) studies, we are "Gaining mechanistic insights into long-range gene regulation through synthetic biology approaches"

first talk of the session is by Peter Zeller (Aarhus University)„Detection of histone modifications and full-length transcriptome in single cells identifies sequential epigenetic perceptiveness to lineage commitment."