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📢 SAVE THE DATE | 5th V4SDB Meeting | 1–4 September 2027 We’re excited to announce that the V4SDB meeting is heading back to the Czech Republic — this time to beautiful Prague! 🇨🇿 #V4SDB #DevelopmentalBiology #DevBio #Conference

Calling all young developmental biologists from the V4 region and beyond! 🥼 Are you a Master’s student, PhD student, or postdoc? Take part in our questionnaire and help us understand your situation, needs, what’s on your mind, and how V4SDB can support you. 🧵 forms.cloud.microsoft/e/8a1p7Ws3ea

🎫 As a bonus, you can enter a raffle for a chance to win free registration for the V4SDB Meeting 2027 in Prague or the next V4SDB Student School! Please share or repost, the more perspectives we hear, the better. 🔥 Thanks a lot for your participation and help 🤗 🧵

Four days and many spatial datasets later, the V4SDB Summer School 2026 has come to an end 🔬 Thanks to all the students who joined us, our sponsors, everyone behind the Summer School, and all our instructors and lecturers! 🧵

A shout-out as well to Jonathan Enriquez (Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon) & @yinanwan.bsky.social (University of Basel) for the MERFISH talks, followed by a hands-on session led by Dorottya Ralbovszki (BRIC University of Copenhagen) & @tarcsavirg.bsky.social (ELTE).🔬🧵

Four days and many spatial datasets later, the V4SDB Summer School 2026 has come to an end 🔬 Thanks to all the students who joined us, our sponsors, everyone behind the Summer School, and all our instructors and lecturers! 🧵

The V4SDB Summer School 2026 on Spatial Transcriptomics has been rolling since yesterday in Budapest 🔬, with excellent talks from Enikő Lázár (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) and Konstantin Khodosevich (BRIC, University of Copenhagen; @khodosevichlab.bsky.social ) on 🫀 Visium and 🧠 Xenium 🧵

And that wasn’t quite all 👀… Raphaël Mauron (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) led the super 🫀 Visium hands-on session, and later, Katarina Dragicevic & Dorottya Ralbovszki (both BRIC, University of Copenhagen) did a great job guiding students through processing 🧠 Xenium sections. 🧵

Curious about spatial transcriptomics? 🔬 Join the 2026 V4SDB Student Summer School, September 1–4 in beautiful Budapest 🇭🇺, and gain hands-on experience with this cutting-edge technology. 🧬 Apply by June 21! 🔗 v4sdb.org/2026-v4sdb-s...

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!

Please welcome our 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! #V4SDB2025 #conference #developmentalbiology #organoids

Next on the programme we have Irina Poverennaya of the @adameykolab.bsky.social at @meduniwien.ac.at, to share her knowledge on how rRNA-Modifications Connect Mesenchymal Fate Selection in Neural Crest and Prognosis in Neuroblastoma  #V4SDB2025 #conference #developmentalbiology #stemcells

Our next speaker - Anna Pulawska-Czub from the University of Warsaw. She presents a talk Unlocking Regeneration: The Potential of Nail Proximal Fold Stem Cells #V4SDB2025 #conference #developmentalbiology #evodevo #morphogenesis #regeneration

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

The last invited speaker of the conference is none other than Han Li @hanli-pasteur.bsky.social from Institut Pasteur @pasteur.fr who will tell us about the Double-Edged Sword: Cellular Senescence in the Mammary Gland #V4SDB2025 #conference #developmentalbiology #stemcells #mammarygland #organoids

And we proceed with an exciting talk by Krzysztof Kobielak from the University of Warsaw, The BMP-ID2 Axis Reveals a Reversible Hair Follicle Stem Cells Gene Network That Regulates Intrinsic Oscillations Between Opposing States During Hair Regeneration #V4SDB2025 #conference

We start with an invited talk Clonal Reconstruction at Single Cell Level Helps to Decipher Embryonic Development by Igor Adameyko @adameykolab.bsky.social, Karolinska Institute @ki.se & Medical University of Vienna @meduniwien.ac.at

Conferences aren’t only for science but also to have fun with colleagues and making new friends. What better time for this than the gala dinner on our last evening together! Keep an eye out, the evening has only just begun! #V4SDB2025 #conference #developmentalfriendships #galadinner

To tell us about his lab’s research into Missing Genetics in the Classical Developmental Model: Filling the Gap Using Primordial Germ Cells and Gene Editing in Chickens, we have Jiří Hejnar from @imgprague.bsky.social! #V4SDB2025 #conference #developmentalbiology #evodevo

Last but certainly not least, the final talk of the day is on Ancient Pharyngeal Proto-Pituitary in Embryos of Basal Fishes held by Agáta Horáčková from Charles University! @charlesuni.cuni.cz @sciencecharles.bsky.social #V4SDB2025 #conference #developmentalbiology #evodevo

Our next speaker Abigail Tucker from King’s College London and @charlesuni.cuni.cz @sciencecharles.bsky.social. Her talk about the evolution of suckling compares the development in several mammals #V4SDB2025 #conference #developmentalbiology #evodevo

And here is Gage Crump @crumplab.bsky.social, all the way from @usc.edu, to tell us about Cross-Species Single-Cell Approaches to Facial Development and Evolution. A big thanks to @isdb.bsky.social @cellsdev.bsky.social @devdynamics.bsky.social for sponsoring the talk! #V4SDB2025 #evodevo