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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

Get ready for our next western/evening 🌙 session seminar on Thursday! with Loic Le-Goff @loic-legoff.bsky.social (buckling morphogenesis 🪰) and Berna Sozen @bernasozen.bsky.social (🐁 gastrulation) 🗓️ Thursday, March 06th at ⏰ 09:30 PST / 12:30 EST / 17:30 UTC / 17:30 GMT / 18:30 CET

Join us tomorrow for the next seminar!👇 🗓️ Thursday, February 20th at ⏰ 09:30 PST / 12:30 EST / 17:30 UTC / 17:30 GMT / 18:30 CET

Our next western/evening 🌙 session seminar is happening next week! Join us to learn about human embryo models with @bailweatherbee.bsky.social and pancreatic organoids with @amandaanderssonr.bsky.social 🗓️ Thursday, February 20th at ⏰ 09:30 PST / 12:30 EST / 17:30 UTC / 17:30 GMT / 18:30 CET

1-day reminder! Join us tomorrow for another morning/eastern seminar! ☀️☕️

Join us next week (Wednesday!) for the next VGZT morning/eastern session ☀️ ☕️ seminar! We are looking forward to exciting 🪰🪲 talks by: Juan Manuel Gómez @gomezjm-devmech.bsky.social and Wolfram Pönisch @wolframponisch.bsky.social 🗓️ Wednesday, Feb 12 ⏰ 18:00 JST / 10:00 CET / 9:00 UTC

Join us next week (Wednesday!) for the next VGZT morning/eastern session ☀️ ☕️ seminar! We are looking forward to exciting 🪰🪲 talks by: Juan Manuel Gómez @gomezjm-devmech.bsky.social and Wolfram Pönisch @wolframponisch.bsky.social 🗓️ Wednesday, Feb 12 ⏰ 18:00 JST / 10:00 CET / 9:00 UTC

Our next seminar is coming up in just over 24h! 🥳

Join us for our next western/evening 🌙 session seminar! Next week we’ll be hearing about 🪰 and 🐓 development; our speakers will be: Claudia Vasquez @claudiaraudia.bsky.social and Ashley Libby 🗓️ Thursday, February 6th at ⏰ 09:30 PST / 12:30 EST / 17:30 UTC / 17:30 GMT / 18:30 CET

We are looking forward to our next seminar tomorrow! 🥳 Join us: 🗓️ Thursday, January 23rd at ⏰ 09:30 PST / 12:30 EST / 17:30 UTC / 17:30 GMT / 18:30 CET

Join us next week for another western/evening 🌙 session seminar! Our speakers will be: Stefano Di Talia @ditalialab.bsky.social and Chaitanya Dingare 🗓️ Thursday, January 23rd at ⏰ 09:30 PST / 12:30 EST / 17:30 UTC / 17:30 GMT / 18:30 CET

Join us tomorrow (Wednesday) for the first VGZT morning/eastern session ☀️ ☕️ seminar!

Join us next week (Wednesday!) for the first VGZT morning/eastern session ☀️ ☕️ seminar! We are looking forward to exciting talks by Xianfa Yang & Romain Levayer (@levayerr.bsky.social) ! 🗓️ Wednesday, Jan 15 ⏰ 18:00 JST / 10:00 CET / 9:00 UTC

Join us later today for the first seminar of the year! 👉 09:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 17:30 UTC / 18:30 CET

Happy new year everyone! 🎉🎇 Join us for the first seminar (Western 🌙 session) of the year with Shinuo Weng @shinuoweng.bsky.social (🐸 convergent extension) and Aryeh Warmflash (human gastrulation model) ⏰ Thursday, January 9th at 09:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 17:30 UTC / 18:30 CET 🗓️