Join us next week for the Western VGZT keynote! 🎉 We're excited to welcome Jennifer Nichols for a keynote lecture: “Embryos, stem cells and gastruloid manipulation” 🗓️ Thursday, July 16th 
⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CEST See you there! 👋

Final Eastern VGZT session of the season! ☀️ Join us for the keynote by Thomas Lecuit (@thomaslecuit.bsky.social)! “The interplay between geometry and mechanics during Drosophila gastrulation” 🗓️ Wednesday, July 8th ⏰ 9:00 BST / 10:00 CEST / 13:30 IST / 17:00 JST / 18:00 AEST See you there! 👋

Exciting VGZT session this week! 🎉 🗓️ Thursday, July 2nd ⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CEST Our speakers are: 👉 Silvia Santos (@santoslab.bsky.social) 👉 Diana Pinheiro (@dianapinheiro.bsky.social) See you there! 👋

This week, we're excited to welcome Hannah Long to VGZT! ✨ 🗓️ Thursday, June 18th ⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CEST Our speaker: 👉 Hannah Long (@hannahlong.bsky.social) See you there! 👋

We're excited to welcome Liangwen Zhong to this week's VGZT session! ✨ 🗓️ Thursday, June 4th ⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CEST Our speakers is 👉 Liangwen Zhong (@liangwenzhong.bsky.social) See you there! 👋

Don’t miss this week’s VGZT session! 🤩 🗓️ Thursday, May 21st ⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CEST Our speakers are 👉 Soham Basu (@sohambasu.bsky.social) 👉 Anestis Tsakiridis (@tsakiridis.bsky.social) See you there! 👋

Glad to see this out in its final form! www.nature.com/articles/s41... What changed since the preprint? Wonderful experiments disentangling the effect of receptor binding vs tissue porosity on Nodal diffusion, plus one of the smoothest review experiences! Thanks @natcellbio.nature.com & reviewers 🙏

Eastern VGZT returns next week with two exciting talks! ☀️ 🗓️ Wednesday, May 13th ⏰ 9:00 BST / 10:00 CEST / 13:30 IST / 17:00 JST / 18:00 AEST Don’t miss: 👉 Clare Buckley (@buckleylab.bsky.social) 👉 Mel White (@melaniedwhite.bsky.social) See you there! 👋

Exciting VGZT session this week! 🎉 🗓️ Thursday, May 7th ⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CEST Our speakers are 👉 Rui Yan 👉 Bruno Vellutini (@bruvellu.bsky.social) See you there! 👋

Over the moon to see this work from my PhD finally published in Development! Using a combination of structural biology and genetics we identify an avidity-driven mechanism of BMP signal control in the extracellular space. (1/11)

Two great talks coming up this Thursday at VGZT! 🗓️ Thursday, April 16th ⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CEST Our speakers are 👉 Meng Zhu (@zhumeng123.bsky.social) 👉 Pulin Li (on X: @Pulin_Li) See you on Thursday! 👋

Following several years (!) of discussion and rumination, our team of excellent colleagues - Martin Pera, @nicolasrivron.bsky.social, @amartinezarias.bsky.social, Karen Sermon and Nienke de Graeff - have published a new ethical perspective on SCBEM #embryomodels rdcu.be/fcklG [1/5]

I illustrated my way through the @bsdb.bsky.social Spring Meeting a couple weeks ago - here's my illustrated summary of the conference! I sketched (almost) all the speakers and glimpses of the science that made it such a great few days.

☀️ Join us next week for another great Eastern VGZT session! 🗓️ Wednesday, April 8th ⏰ 9:00 BST / 10:00 CEST / 13:30 IST / 17:00 JST / 18:00 AEST Our speakers are: 👉 Leqian Yu 👉 Tatsuo Shibata See you there! 👋

⚠️ Update: The VGZT keynote seminar has been postponed Due to unforeseen circumstances, Cassandra Extavour’s keynote will now take place on:
 🗓️ Thursday, July 23rd, 2026 We apologize for any inconvenience and look forward to seeing you then! 👋

We’re excited to announce our 2nd keynote VGZT seminar! Featuring: 👉 Cassandra Extavour "One, two, three: evolution of developmental counting mechanisms" 🗓️ Thursday, April 2nd ⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CEST See you there! 👋

The Frenster Lab is here! 🍾 I am so excited to start my #EmmyNoether funded group at @uni-freiburg.de this summer. Our group studies #CellCompetition dynamics during embryonic development using #gastruloids from multiple species. Thanks to the @dfg.de for creating this opportunity! FrensterLab.com

We’re looking for a new team member! 🚀 Only 3 more weeks to apply to the fantastic Vienna BioCenter PhD program

Are you fascinated by self-organised patterning processes? The brand-new Stuart lab at EMBL Barcelona is looking for a lab manager! Hannah @htstuart.bsky.social is a fantastic scientist and mentor. Building the lab with her will be a lot of fun! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Bar...

Join us for next week’s exciting VGZT session! 🎉 🗓️ Thursday, March 5th ⏰ 9:30 PST / 12:30 EST / 17:30 UTC / 17:30 GMT / 18:30 CET Our speakers are 👉 David Mörsdorf (@davidmoersdorf.bsky.social) 👉 Lakshmi Balasubramaniam (@lakshmib02.bsky.social) See you there! 👋

We‘re looking for a motivated Master student to join our team! Do you want to optogenetically control metabolic activity to see how metabolism affects patterning and morphogenesis? 💡🧫🧬🔬 Then please apply! #optogenetics #metabolism #devbio #hESCs Please RT. Thank you!🙏

VGZT is back this Thursday with two exciting talks! 🎉 🗓️ Thursday, February 19th ⏰ 9:30 PST / 12:30 EST / 17:30 UTC / 17:30 GMT / 18:30 CET Our speakers are 👉 Raquel Fueyo (@fueyoraquel.bsky.social) 👉 Margarete Diaz Cuadros (@mdiazcuadros.bsky.social) See you on there! 👋

Join us next week for two exciting talks in the Eastern VGZT session! ☀️ 🗓️ Wednesday, February 11th ⏰ 9:00 GMT / 10:00 CET / 14:30 IST / 18:00 JST / 20:00 AEDT Don’t miss: 👉 Pragathi Masamsetti (on X: @PMasamsetti) 👉 Marc Trani-Bustos (@mtrani.bsky.social) See you there! 👋

Join us this week for the next exciting VGZT session! 🎉 🗓️ Thursday, February 5th ⏰ 9:30 PST / 12:30 EST / 17:30 UTC / 17:30 GMT / 18:30 CET Our speakers are 👉 Evgeny Kvon (@evgenykvon.bsky.social) 👉 Silas Boye Nissen (on X: @SilasBoyeNissen) See you on Thursday! 👋

See you on Thursday! 🐟🔬🖥️

Join us for the next VGZT, featuring complementary approaches to understanding dynamic tissue organization! 🗓️ Thursday, January 22nd ⏰ 9:30 PST / 12:30 EST / 17:30 GMT / 18:30 CET Our speakers are 👉 Chen Yuan Kam (@chenyuankam.bsky.social) 👉 Camilla Autorino (@cami-autorino.bsky.social)

New Year’s resolution to read more? Then what better way to start than by checking out our new review on the biophysics of organoids!

🎉 Happy New Year! We’re kicking off 2026 with an exciting VGZT seminar! 🗓️ Thursday, January 8th ⏰ 9:30 PST / 12:30 EST / 17:30 UTC / 17:30 GMT / 18:30 CET Our speakers are 👉 Jan Jakub Zylicz (@jzylicz.bsky.social) 👉 Anahi Binagui-Casas (@abinagui.bsky.social) See you there 👋

🎄 Final VGZT seminar before Christmas! 🎄 We’re excited to welcome keynote speaker Olivier Pourquié ✨ “Recapitulating human somitogenesis in vitro” 🗓️ Thursday, December 18th ⏰ 9:30 PST / 12:30 EST / 17:30 UTC / 17:30 GMT / 18:30 CET

Lovely little pre-Christmas present to see this out @natcellbio.nature.com! Some 🔥 new results in here since the biorvix incl (1) a new RARE-GFP reporter ✳️🙌, (2) additional NMP quantification 🔢, (3) no neural tube patterning on RA inhibition 🙅 etc. Enjoy! 😍 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Join us tomorrow for two great talks in the Eastern VGZT session! ☀️ Don’t miss: 👉 Guojun Sheng 👉 Jennifer Zenker

News: VGZT has updated its official website and now has now a brand-new LinkedIn page! 🎉🚀 You can find all upcoming sessions, past talks, and updates there. 🌐 Website 🔗 LinkedIn Feel free to follow, share, and and help spread the word about the seminar series! 🙌

Join us next week for another round of inspiring VGZT talks! 🤩 🗓️ Thursday, December 4th ⏰ 9:30 PST / 12:30 EST / 17:30 UTC / 17:30 GMT / 18:30 CET Our speakers are 👉 Luca Braccioli (@bracciolilab.bsky.social) 👉 Komal Makwana (on X: @Komal_Makwana4) See you next week 👋

Join us tomorrow for another pair of outstanding talks!

Tomorrow is VGZT day! 🚀 Don’t miss the great talks from 👉 Allison Kann (@apkann.bsky.social) 👉 Joana da Silva (on X: @joanamsilva14)

Join us for next week’s exciting VGZT session! 🎉 🗓️ Thursday, November 20th ⏰ 9:30 PST / 12:30 EST / 17:30 UTC / 17:30 GMT / 18:30 CET Our speakers are 👉 Allison Kann (@apkann.bsky.social) 👉 Joana da Silva (on X: @joanamsilva14) See you there 👋

We are excited to announce the first Eastern ☀️VGZT session for this season!✨🎉 📅Tomorrow, November 12th ⏰ 9:00 UTC / 9:00 GMT / 10:00 CET / 14:30 IST / 18:00 JST / 20:00 AEDT Our speakers are: 👉Sameer Thukral (on X: @SameerThukral6) 👉Axel Newton (on X: @AxelHNewton) See you on tomorrow☕️👋

We offer a 1-year postdoc on modelling multicellular systems in my group at @biocomsc-upc.bsky.social and @barcelonacollaboratorium.com in sunny Barcelona. We encourage applicants to also apply for a Juan de la Cierva Fellowship for a 2-year extension. Feel free to contact me!

🚀 It’s VGZT day! Join us today (Nov 6th) for another round of inspiring talks 🎉 ⏰ Updated times: 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 17:30 UTC / 17:30 GMT / 18:30 CET Our speakers are 👉 David Oriola (@davidoriola.bsky.social) 👉 Nicole Edwards (@nicoleedwds.bsky.social) Don’t miss it - see you there 👋✨

Join us next week for another exciting VGZT session! 🗓️ Thursday, November 6th ⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET Our speakers are 👉 David Oriola (@davidoriola.bsky.social) 👉 Nicole Edwards (@nicoleedwds.bsky.social) See you then! 👋

We’ve officially launched the MetaboDev lab at IMBA 🚀! I’m extremely grateful for all the support from the @imbavienna.bsky.social & @viennabiocenter.bsky.social community. Special thanks to @eunicechan.bsky.social, the most amazing first lab member I could have hoped for. On to the science!🔬🧬#NewPI

📢 2 very exciting PhD opportunities, please share! We use a range of technologies+systems to study #collagen, #ECMatrix, and #fibrosis 👇 1) MRC CASE DTP - #3D #biomaterials, #immune cells alter, #drugscreens lnkd.in/e6eMqs8M 2) Bicentenary - #macrophages, #circadian, #omics. lnkd.in/ekZfJfsd

Looking forward to a day at EMBL Barcelona for Science by the Beach Seminar at noon Science by the beach | EMBL.org share.google/Eb8dktOiuUbJ...

We are excited to announce the second Western VGZT of Season 7! 🗓️Thursday, October 16th ⏰9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET Our speakers: 👉 Hidenobu Miyazawa (on X: @HidenobuAnzo) 👉 Girish Kale (@girishkalephd.bsky.social) See you next week! 👋

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 FRIENDS PLEASE SPREAD and RT We are building a small expert team within the @bokelab.bsky.social at @crg.eu @prbb.org to investigate fundamental questions in oocyte cell biology, focusing on how proteostasis regulation influences dormancy and fertility. See below 2 calls👇

Very excited to present my research focussing on the evolutionary differences of epiblast morphogenesis across amniotes next week at the kick-off of @vgzt2021.bsky.social season 7! A story of 🐁,🧍,🐓 & many 🦎🦎🦎🦎

We are excited to announce the first Western VGZT of Season 7! 🎉 🗓️ Thursday, October 2nd ⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET Our speakers: 👉 Antonia Weberling (@a-weberling.bsky.social) 👉 Sanjay Narayanaswamy (@sanjay-n.bsky.social)

Stay Connected with VGZT Season 7 🌍 From Oct 2025–July 2026, join our online seminar series featuring cutting-edge developmental biology across diverse model organisms. Hear from senior PhD students, postdocs, and PIs as they share their latest discoveries with a global audience.

We are delighted to host @paveltomancak.bsky.social as our next Science By The Beach speaker from @mpi-cbg.de. Please join us @embl.org for an exciting talk and discussion. 📅 September 16 📍 @prbb.org #evolution #development #imaging #TissueBiology

📢 Fresh off the press and featuring new exciting experiments! 🧪 We show how glycolytic activity instructs germ layer proportions through regulation of Nodal and Wnt signaling - happy to finally share this 😊 doi.org/10.1016/j.st... B2B with @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social lab: doi.org/10.1016/j.st... 🤩