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

Join us next week for the second Eastern VGZT of the season! 🤩 🗓️ Wednesday, December 10th ⏰ 9:00 UTC / 9:00 GMT / 10:00 CET / 14:30 IST / 18:00 JST / 20:00 AEDT Our speakers are: 👉 Guojun Sheng 👉 Jennifer Zenker See you there! ✨

Join us next week for the second Eastern VGZT of the season! 🤩 🗓️ Wednesday, December 10th ⏰ 9:00 UTC / 9:00 GMT / 10:00 CET / 14:30 IST / 18:00 JST / 20:00 AEDT Our speakers are: 👉 Guojun Sheng 👉 Jennifer Zenker See you there! ✨

Reminder: Tomorrow is VGZT day! 🚀 Don’t miss great talks from 👉 Luca Braccioli (@bracciolilab.bsky.social) 👉 Komal Makwana (on X: @Komal_Makwana4)

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 👋

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 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☕️👋

🚀 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 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! 👋

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! 👋

Dear VGZT enthusiasts, Do you—or someone in your lab—work on exciting developmental biology research? Showcase it at VGZT, a global online seminar series connecting developmental biologists across all career stages. Apply here: www.tinyurl.com/VGZT-Nomination

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)

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.

As we close VGZT season 6, we’d like to THANKS all the speakers and participants for this fantastic season ✨. The VGZT 7 organiser team is ready and coming 👇. New announcements are coming soon, keep an eye out ⭐.

Last seminar of the season with the keynote by @josh-brickman.bsky.social coming up tomorrow! 🗓️ Thursday, August 07 ⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET

Join us next week for the second part of our Western 🌙 keynote seminar! 🗓️ Thursday, August 07 ⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET Featuring @josh-brickman.bsky.social 👉 „Don't you (forget about me) – Transcription Factor Occupancy, Memory and Plasticity.“

Slight change regarding our Western 🌙 KEYNOTE seminars! This week, on 🗓️ Thursday, July 17 ⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET Charlene Guillot @charleneguillot.bsky.social will speak And we will be back on Aug 07 for another seminar by @josh-brickman.bsky.social Details 👇

Join us next week for our Western 🌙 KEYNOTE seminar: 🗓️ Thursday, July 17 ⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET Our speakers are: Josh Brickman @josh-brickman.bsky.social Charlene Guillot @charleneguillot.bsky.social We are looking forward to this great season finale! 🥳

Join the VGZT Eastern KEYNOTE lecture ☀️☕ TOMORROW 🗓️ Wednesday July 09 ⏰ 13:30 IST / 17:00 JST / 8:00 UTC / 10:00 CET Featuring: 1) Maithreyi Narasimha 👉Positioning tissues during Drosophila morphogenesis Jose Silva @josesilvalab.bsky.social 👉From founder cells to organogenesis-stage embryo model

Less than 24h to go! Join us for one of the last seminars this season! 🐭🐸🐟 🗓️ Thursday, July 03 ⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET

Next Western VGZT 🌙 🗓️ Thursday, July 03 ⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET Our speakers: Alexandre Francou 👉 Intercalation dynamics driving endoderm morphogenesis during mouse gastrulation Roberto Mayor @mayorlab.bsky.social 👉 Directional Migration of Neural Crest

Join us for our next seminar: 🗓️ Thursday, June 19 ⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET

Next Thurs, join us for the next Western VGZT 🌙 🗓️ Thursday, June 19 ⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET Featuring: @jesseveenvliet.bsky.social 👉Exploring physiological constraints by sculpting with stem cells @sermenchero.bsky.social 👉What marsupials can teach us about time

Join us for talks by Ramkumar Sambasivan & @mundhegayatri.bsky.social in the upcoming VGZT Eastern session ☀️☕ 🗓️ Wednesday June 11 ⏰ 13:30 IST / 17:00 JST / 8:00 UTC / 10:00 CET

The next VGZT Eastern session ☀️☕ is happening next week: 🗓️ Wednesday June 11 ⏰ 13:30 IST / 17:00 JST / 8:00 UTC / 10:00 CET Our speakers: Ramkumar Sambasivan 👉 Retinoic acid, Wnt/β-catenin signaling & mesoderm patterning Gayatri Mundhe 👉 Biochemical and mechanical control of a morphogenetic wave

Our next session is coming up soon! Join us for gastruloids and sea urchins: 🗓️ Thursday, June 05 ⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET

Next Western 🌙 VGZT session: 🗓️ Thursday, June 05 ⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET Luke Simpson 👉Gastruloids reveal the dynamics of interspecies development and chimerism Thierry Lepage 👉Maternal factors shaping the expression of Nodal: the two faces of the TGF-β Panda

Next VGZT western 🌙 session tomorrow: 🗓️ Thursday, May 22 ⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET

Please join next week‘s Western 🌙 VGZT: 🗓️ Thursday, May 22 ⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET @aliseleit.bsky.social 👉Developmental heterochrony & evolution of segmentation in eels @laura-rustarazo.bsky.social 👉Rigidity transitions & epithelial organization in 🐟 embryos

The next VGZT seminar is happening tomorrow! 🗓️ Wednesday May 14 ⏰ 13:30 IST / 17:00 JST / 8:00 UTC / 10:00 CET

Join us for another VGZT Eastern session ☀️☕ next week: 🗓️ Wednesday May 14 ⏰ 13:30 IST / 17:00 JST / 8:00 UTC / 10:00 CET Our speakers are: Edwina McGlinn @eddymcglinn.bsky.social 🐁 Vertebrate body elongation Mona Hosny 🐁 Insights from a novel mouse model for mitochondrial dysfunction

Join us tomorrow for our next seminar: 🗓️ Thursday, May 08 ⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET

Next Western 🌙 VGZT coming up: 🗓️ Thursday, May 08 ⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET 👉 @ancheldjs.bsky.social (Regulation of chromosome segregation fidelity across lineage specification) 👉 @emmanuelhaillot.bsky.social (Mesoderm and endoderm formation in Nematostella)

Reminder, next seminar: 🗓️ Thursday, April 24 ⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET

Join us for our next Western 🌙 VGZT on 🗓️ Thursday, April 24 ⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET 👉 @erosadoolivieri.bsky.social (human trachea-esophageal morphogenesis) 👉 @susannevandenbrink.bsky.social (signaling balance during mesodermal and haematopoietic development)

Thank you VGZT community for your active participation 🌎 See below the session flyers for the rest of the season: 🌞 Eastern sessions: Happening on Wednesdays. Our keynote for this season: Maithreyi Narasimha and @josesilvalab.bsky.social [1/2]

Reminder for our ☀️☕️ seminar tomorrow: 🗓️ Wednesday Apr 09 ⏰ 17:00 JST / 8:00 UTC / 10:00 CET

Mark your calendars for another VGZT Eastern session ☀️☕ 🗓️ Wednesday Apr 09 ⏰ 17:00 JST / 8:00 UTC / 10:00 CET Bipasha Dey “Divergent evolutionary strategies prevent tissue collision in fly embryos”🪰 Chii Jou (Joe) Chan “Ovarian mechanobiology: roles of compressive stress in follicle development”🐁

Next VGZT session in less than 24h! 🥳

Come join our next Western 🌙 VGZT on Thursday! 🗓️ Thursday, April 3rd at ⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET Our speakers: Madalena Madeira Reimão Pinto @madalenamrp.bsky.social 🐟5' UTRs in translational control Xingbo Yang 🐁 Bioenergetics of spindle self-organization

Join us tomorrow for the next VGZT seminar! 🗓️ Thursday, March 20th at ⏰ 10:30 PDT (!) / 13:30 EDT (!) / 17:30 UTC / 17:30 GMT / 18:30 CET

Mark your calendars for our western/evening 🌙 session seminar next week! We’ll have a 🐁 double feature with: Kate Cavanaugh @katecavanaugh.bsky.social and Vera Van der Weijden @vvdw.bsky.social 🗓️ Thursday, March 20th at ⏰ 10:30 PDT (!) / 13:30 EDT (!) / 17:30 UTC / 17:30 GMT / 18:30 CET

Join us tomorrow for the next VGZT Eastern ☀️☕️ session: 🗓️ Wednesday, March 12 ⏰ 18:00 JST / 9:00 UTC / 10:00 CET

We are back with an Eastern session ☀️☕ on 🗓️ Wednesday, March 12 ⏰ 18:00 JST / 9:00 UTC / 10:00 CET 👉Shun Shibata “Recapitulating human embryo implantation using stem cells and organoids” 👉Joaquin Navajas Acedo @mads100tist.bsky.social “Spatiotemporal emergence of somatosensory neuron diversity”

Join us for our next VGZT seminar tomorrow! 🗓️ Thursday, March 06th at ⏰ 09:30 PST / 12:30 EST / 17:30 UTC / 17:30 GMT / 18:30 CET