V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026And a big thanks to @mvargam.eurosky.social and @petrakompanikova.bsky.social for this initiative! 001
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026🎫 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 🤗 🧵 100
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Calling 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 111
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Last but not least, big congratulations to Martina Šindlerová (Masaryk University) for winning the best student flash talk! 🏆🎤 Stay tuned, a few things are cooking at V4SDB 👀 010
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 04/09/2026A 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).🔬🧵 120
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 04/09/2026A special shout-out to those who kept us busy over the last two days: @sergiomarcosalas.bsky.social (Helmholtz Munich) with Xenium segmentation & spatial domains, and @shuozhencat.bsky.social (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm) with spatial multi-omics & DBiT-seq. 🔬🧵 100
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Four 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! 🧵 131
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Big thanks to our sponsors, @biologists.bsky.social, @brukercorporation.bsky.social, Genetica and IGATech for making this possible 🤗, and to @mvargam.eurosky.social for all the time and effort behind the V4SDB Summer School 2026! 🙌 More to come over the next two days! 🔥 030
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026And 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. 🧵 120
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The 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 🧵 141
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 15/06/2026⏳ Last week to apply! Join us at the 2026 V4SDB Student Summer School in Budapest - a great opportunity to connect with peers and explore spatial transcriptomics 🔥 🔗 Apply by June 21: v4sdb.org/2026-v4sdb-s... 041
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 04/06/2026And big thanks to @mvargam.eurosky.social for putting this together and @biologists.bsky.social for supporting this event! 🤗 030
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Curious 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... 174
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 23/09/2025The photographs 📸 from the @v4sdb.bsky.social Meeting 2025 are available! Check out the photogallery at v4sdb2025.img.cas.cz/extras/ Many thanks to the photographers Viacheslav Zemlianski and Petr Vodička! 010
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 16/09/2025We took #V4SDB2025 all the way up… to the mountains 🏔️🔥 Thanks to everyone who joined our Post-Conference Mountain Adventure ❤️ 040
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Congratulations to the winners of the @devdynamics.bsky.social prizes at the @v4sdb.bsky.social Meeting 2025! 🏅The best short talk: Allan Akandwanaho. 🏅The best poster: Zsanna Gecse, Denisa Belisova & Himanshi Singh. 👏👏👏 011
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 11/09/2025We are grateful to Visegrád Fund for sponsoring the Best chalk talk & Best poster prizes at the @v4sdb.bsky.social Meeting 2025. Congratulations to the winners: 🏅Chalk talks: Affifah Azimuddin Chogle, Adam Soos & Malgorzata Wojtaszek; 🏅Posters: Marcelina Osyra, Kriti Attri & Tomas Suchanek.👏 011
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 10/09/2025We are grateful to all our sponsors who made the V4SDB Meeting 2025 in 🇸🇰 possible and accessible, specifically Visegrád Fund, @biologists.bsky.social, @isdb.bsky.social, @cellsdev.bsky.social, @devdynamics.bsky.social, MUNI SCI, Allgene, BRIX, LABO-SK, and Merck Life Science. Thank you! 073
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 07/09/2025We're grateful to each and every of you, and cordially invite to the next V4SDB meeting in Prague, 2027! And follow us to not miss more updates in the field of developmental biology! #V4SDB2025 #conference #developmentalbiology #morphogenesis #organoids #evodevo 040
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Wow, 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! 194
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 07/09/2025He has worked on improving neurospheres to model the development of the enteric nervous system. They did this by combining in vitro culturing with specific growth factors, followed by implantation in ovo to track the progress of enteric neural stem cells during ENS development! 010
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Please 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 100
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 07/09/2025The data reveal the importance specific genes during rRNA modifications and ribosomal assembly in specifying mesenchymal cell fate of cranial neural crest cells in mouse embryos - and a connection with neuroblastoma 010
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Next 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 120
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Have you ever wondered how nails grow? Well today is the day we find out! Nail proximal fold stem cells can change their fate in response to injury - here we find out how BMP and WNT signalling contribute to this by using mouse models #tissueregeneration #celltransplantation 000
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Our 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 110
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Radek will describe an unrecognised cell population, which takes part in regeneration initiation and uncover its role in tail regeneration of Xenopus laevis embryos. Don't miss out! #V4SDB2025 #conference #developmentalbiology #evodevo #morphogenesis #regeneration 020
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 07/09/2025And 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 121
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Cellular senescence can be either protective or detrimental to an organism - this depends entirely on the situation! She will tell us about its role both during mammary gland involution and its implications in breast cancer 000
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 07/09/2025The 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 120
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 07/09/2025The rest of the session will be chaired by Zuzana Sumbalová Koledová @sumbalovakoledova.bsky.social from @imgprague.bsky.social - we are looking forward to this final set of talks! #V4SDB2025 #conference #developmentalbiology #evodevo #morphogenesis #organoids #stemcells #plasticity 010
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Krzysztof will talk about the largest tissue of our body - the skin, and how hair follicle stem cells are involved in hair regeneration, covering the Bmp-Id2 axis and its role in quiescence. #V4SDB2025 #conference #developmentalbiology #evodevo #morphogenesis #organoids 000
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 07/09/2025And 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 110
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Igor will provide us new insights on how the cells decide their fate, and what is happening during early development. Stay tuned! 010
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 07/09/2025We 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 181
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Welcome to the day 3! We start with a session Stem cells and plasticity, chaired by Nàndor Nagy, Semmelweis University. Grab some coffee and join us! #V4SDB2025 #conference #developmentalbiology #evodevo #morphogenesis #organoids 010
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 06/09/2025Scientists are multipotent - we can have a great time on the dance floor as well as playing chess or a game of cards! 030
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 06/09/2025Conferences 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 121
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 06/09/2025His work is furthering the development of the chicken as a model organism. The lab has established a new method to optimise CRISPR/Cas9 editing in chick embryos with some very exciting results 000
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 06/09/2025Last 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 210
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 06/09/2025Lactation is a key feature of mammals and successful nursing is essential for the survival of offspring. The talk showed exciting new insights, comparing the development of bones and muscles in the mouse with the echidna and the platypus, which lack nipples and therefore nurse by a different method 000
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 06/09/2025To 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 110
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 06/09/2025Our 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 141
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 06/09/2025#V4SDBMeeting2025 is family friendly & makes science attractive & accessible to our youngest participants from @sumbalovakoledova.bsky.social lab. Many thanks to Michel C. Milinkovitch @lanevol.bsky.social for the illustrative 3D printed models of 🐊 snout patterning! 031
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 06/09/2025The talk features new insights into ear development in mammals by comparison with gills in amphibians! #developmentalbiology 010
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 06/09/2025And 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 172
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 06/09/2025After a refreshing coffee break and some snacks, our new chair for the second half of this session is Máté Varga @mvargam.bsky.social from ELTE Eötvös Loránd University #V4SDB2025 #conference #developmentalbiology #evodevo #morphogenesis 000
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 06/09/2025We are pleased to welcome Iryna Kozmiková from the Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences @imgprague.bsky.social to talk about Vertebrate Head Evolution Informed by the Invertebrate Chordate Amphioxus #V4SDB2025 #developmentalbiology #evodevo 000
V4SDB @v4sdb.bsky.social · 06/09/2025Next we look forward to hearing from Máté Varga @mvargam.bsky.social from ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, who will tell us about the Evolution and Development of Breathing Strategies in Paradise Fish! #V4SDB2025 #developmentalbiology #evodevo 061