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! 👋

An avidity-driven mechanism of extracellular BMP regulation by Twisted gastrulation Read this Research Article from our special issue #DevSIextracellular by @garethmoore.bsky.social, @hilaryashe.bsky.social & co from @mcf-uom.bsky.social. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/... #Drosophila

This is not an April fool's! The YEN 2026 Conference is really happening on June 15th! We are excited to have Kay Elder, Diana Pinheiro and Christopher Thomas. We are looking forward to your abstract submissions! Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Join us this Friday for the Long Night of Research & get some insight to the work of the members of Vienna BioCenter! Wie funktioniert ein Antikörper-Titer-Test? (ThermoFisher) - lnkd.in/ddVqj3uV Vom Virus zur Impfung - Was braucht es zur Entwicklung von Impfstoffen? (Valneva) - lnkd.in/dg6DJtk6

Catch up on Development presents… webinar on neural development Our February webinar featured early-career researchers studying neural development. Here, we share the talks from Joaquín Navajas Acedo @mads100tist.bsky.social & Carlo Donato Caiaffa. #DevPres thenode.biologists.com/catch-up-on-...

Auf dem Weg zu früher unabhängiger Forschung? Das Walter Benjamin-Programm bietet optimale Möglichkeiten, ein eigenständiges Profil zu entwickeln - an einer passenden (auch ausländischen) Einrichtung. In unserer Inforeihe #Prospects stellen wir nächste Woche alles Wichtige zu dem Programm vor. 👇

🥳 I am happy to share our latest manuscript published in @natcellbio.nature.com We use #Gastruloids to study #CellCompetition during early mammalian development and find not only that this is highly pronounced in our system but also tightly restricted in time. (1/12) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📣 Save the date: Lange Nacht der Forschung an der Uni Wien! 📅: 24.04.2026, 17:00 - 23:00 Uhr 📍: über 100 Stationen an 5 Standorten: Hauptgebäude, Fakultät für Chemie, Fakultät für Physik, Sternwarte & Biologiezentrum Das gesamte Programm der Uni Wien im Überblick: ⤵️ www.univie.ac.at/lange-nacht-...

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

Tomorrow is VGZT day! 🤩 ⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 GMT / 17:30 CET
 ⚠️ 1 hour earlier than usual in GMT/CET Don’t miss our fantastic speakers:
 👉 Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla 
👉 Margherita Perillo

Exciting VGZT session this week! 🎉 🗓️ Thursday, March 19th ⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 GMT / 17:30 CET ⚠️ 1 hour earlier than usual in GMT/CET due to daylight saving time changes. Our speakers: 👉 Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla (@metorrespadilla.bsky.social) 👉 Margherita Perillo See you there! 👋

#ECR, PhDs and postdocs, take note - here is our alternative date for the info session about the DFG's Emmy Noether Programme, its eligibility requirements and your funding opportunities. Full Details:▶️ www.dfg.de/en/research-...

The GfE PhD Award 2026 goes to Tatiana Lebedeva (@tclebedeva.bsky.social) for her outstanding contribution to developmental biology. She presents the topic of her thesis on the "Role of β-Catenin signaling in germ layer specification in Cnidaria". #GfE2026

the deadline is coming soon👇 don't miss it, we are looking forward to welcoming all teleost (not just zebrafish 😉) afficionados in Vienna! 🙂🐟🐠🤓

Best buddies? More like budding buddies 🪼👯‍♀️✨ Six stages of asexual budding in Hydra to generate new genetically identical individuals (clones). 🟣: collagen 🟢: stem cells. 📸 Image by Ben Cox #FluorescentFriday

Eastern VGZT returns next week with two exciting talks! ☀️ 🗓️ Wednesday, March 11th ⏰ 9:00 GMT / 10:00 CET / 14:30 IST / 18:00 JST / 20:00 AEDT Don’t miss: 👉 Sundar Naganathan (on X: @Sundar_Ram_07) 👉 Ruth Arkell See you there! 👋

I’m looking forward to presenting my work at VGZT this Thursday!

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! 👋

Deleted my data and account. I've had a paid OpenAI account for years. Will be using other tools. LLMs have been fantastic for research and software development, but this is too much.

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!🙏

Die DFG nimmt mit großer Betroffenheit zur Kenntnis, dass der @daadworldwide.bsky.social in Russland zur "unerwünschten Organisation" erklärt wurde. Das ist ein gravierender Rückschritt für den internationalen Wissenschaftsaustausch. Wir stehen solidarisch an der Seite des DAAD und der Geförderten.

#WomenInScience day alert: Our labs participate in the E-STEEM initiative of @univie.ac.at: >= 20 funded postdoc positions for female applicants! Interested in pursuing original projects in #stemcells, #regeneration, #biomaterials, #chronobiology at @viennabiocenter.bsky.social? Please get in touch!

Switching fields or wanting to become an expert in #zebrafish research? The @mblscience.bsky.social 2026 Zebrafish Development & Genetics course offers a fantastic opportunity to learn from leaders in the field! Application deadline: March 2 Please spread the word! www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

Final registration reminder for SY-Stem 2026. The deadline is on Monday, February 16.

Register now for the EMBO Workshop "Awakening the Genome During Developmental Reprogramming: From Embryos to Organoids" in Seville, ES, 4–7 May 2026. Deadline: 13 Feb https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-awakening-genome #EMBOGenomeAwakening #EMBOevents 🧪

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 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)

The (Yoav) Voichek lab has opened its gates at the Weizmann Institute, and is actively recruiting students and researchers at all levels - come explore gene regulation and computational genomics in a fun, friendly sprouting lab 🤗🥼⚗️🧪 www.weizmann.ac.il/plants/voichek

🎉 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 👋

The Vienna BioCenter Summer School 2026 call is now open for talented undergrads, it's a great opportunity for students who are interested in graduate study in the life sciences. Marco Hein from Max Perutz Labs Vienna is recruiting! Please share https://training.vbc.ac.at/summer-school/

Very happy to share my postdoc work (on preprint), where we try to understand a long-standing transcription-silencing paradox, and uncovered a hidden RNA decay arm of nuclear piRNA pathway, see detailed threads quoted from @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social

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

SAVE THE DATE! Stoked to organize the 2026 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting with @rashmi-priya.bsky.social, @lowelab.bsky.social, and Shelbi Russell. Come learn about Biomedicine, Biomechanics, and the Biosphere, August 24-28, 2026. Registration dates, etc., coming soon! Please RT

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

Our paper on the role of neurons in Nematostella head regeneration is now out at @currentbiology.bsky.social Big thank you to all collaborators, it was a pleasure! Ectopic head regeneration after nervous system ablation in a sea anemone: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

We’re #hiring! Our #IMPRS @mpipz.bsky.social & @unicologne.bsky.social recruits 4 PhD students. We look for candidates with a keen interest in experimental & computational plant biology to join us in 2026! Find details at www.mpipz.mpg.de/imprs/imprs-... and apply by Jan 5. #PlantSciJobs

Our next #DevPres webinar focusses on regeneration with talks from Stephanie Tsai and Ben Cox @beeeencox.bsky.social. 📆Wed 19 November 🕓16:00 GMT/UTC For more info and to register: thenode.biologists.com/development-...

🚀 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 👋✨

A molecular, spatial and regulatory atlas of the Hydra vulgaris nervous system Read this #LifelongDevSI #OA Techniques and Resources Article by Hannah Morris Little, Abby S. Primack, Jennifer Tsverov, Celina E. Juliano (@julianolab.bsky.social) and colleagues: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

🪸 🪸 🪸 Postdoc position in my group at Bristol to study the role of venom in surviving environmental stress in corals! 🪸 Interested in venom biochemistry and coral ecology?Please apply by November 24! @bristolbiosci.bsky.social www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Join us 19 November to hear from two early-career researchers, Stephanie Tsai & Ben Cox, working on regeneration. Chaired by @dev-journal.bsky.social's Executive Editor, Alex Eve @amjeve.bsky.social. 📅 Wednesday 19 November – 16:00 GMT/UTC Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Very sad news, John Gurdon has died. A developmental biologist's developmental biologist, Nobel prize winner His work is the foundation of much of today's dev & stem cell bio. An inspiration to many, including me. Always asking questions & wanting the answers www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

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 have a diverse, international PhD program with English as our working language. We have 20+ fully-funded positions in this call for talented MSc students. Start your application by 10 October training.vbc.ac.at/p... @univie.ac.at @impvienna.bsky.social @imbavienna.bsky.social

We knew that cnidarians have stunning regenerative capacities. But the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying the self-organization of gastruloids of Nematostella surprised us. A story of cell sorting and Notch signaling. Please check out the work of Sanjay's PhD work: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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! 🥳