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! 🥳

What to expect at the Vienna BioCenter - Hear it directly from our fellows! Sounds good? Apply now to join our Postdoc Program. The VIP³ call is open–16 fully-funded, three-year postdoctoral fellowships in an interdisciplinary environment: training.vbc.ac.at/post-docs/vi... #VBCPostDoc

VGZT keynote coming up!

Looking forward to this! 🥳

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

Der mit 1,9 Millionen Euro höchstdotierte Wissenschaftspreis des Landes, der #Wittgenstein-Preis des #FWF, geht 2025 an Elly Tanaka. Die Biochemikerin erforscht die Regeneration komplexer Körperstrukturen. Via @orf.at science.orf.at/stories/3230...

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

It’s out! 🥳 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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

I recently started my new project @genikhovich.bsky.social investigating Chordin function in the sea anemone Nematostella. I thank @fwf-at.bsky.social for funding my work via the ESPRIT program! @lifesciencesunivie.bsky.social @univie.ac.at