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The photographs 📸 from the @v4sdb.bsky.social Meeting 2025 are available! Check out the photogallery at v4sdb2025.img.cas.cz/extras/
Many thanks to the photographers Viacheslav Zemlianski and Petr Vodička!

We took #V4SDB2025 all the way up… to the mountains 🏔️🔥 Thanks to everyone who joined our Post-Conference Mountain Adventure ❤️

Congratulations to the winners of the @devdynamics.bsky.social prizes at the @v4sdb.bsky.social Meeting 2025!
🏅The best short talk: Allan Akandwanaho.
🏅The best poster: Zsanna Gecse, Denisa Belisova & Himanshi Singh.
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We are grateful to Visegrád Fund for sponsoring the Best chalk talk & Best poster prizes at the @v4sdb.bsky.social Meeting 2025. Congratulations to the winners:
🏅Chalk talks: Affifah Azimuddin Chogle, Adam Soos & Malgorzata Wojtaszek;
🏅Posters: Marcelina Osyra, Kriti Attri & Tomas Suchanek.👏

We are grateful to all our sponsors who made the V4SDB Meeting 2025 in 🇸🇰 possible and accessible, specifically
Visegrád Fund, @biologists.bsky.social, @isdb.bsky.social, @cellsdev.bsky.social, @devdynamics.bsky.social, MUNI SCI, Allgene, BRIX, LABO-SK, and Merck Life Science.
Thank you!

We're grateful to each and every of you, and cordially invite to the next V4SDB meeting in Prague, 2027! And follow us to not miss more updates in the field of developmental biology!

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Wow, that was amazing! We thank everyone for attending the V4SDB 2025 meeting! You all made it an excellent conference, where we had the opportunity to hear from outstanding speakers,share ideas and experiences, and of course have some unforgettable time during social activities!

He has worked on improving neurospheres to model the development of the enteric nervous system. They did this by combining in vitro culturing with specific growth factors, followed by implantation in ovo to track the progress of enteric neural stem cells during ENS development!

Please welcome our final speaker to the stage: Ádám Soós from Semmelweis University with his fascinating talk Exposure to Mesenchymal Growth Factors Enhances the Ability of Enteric Neural Stem Cells to Colonize the Avian Aganglionic Hindgut!
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The data reveal the importance specific genes during rRNA modifications and ribosomal assembly in specifying mesenchymal cell fate of cranial neural crest cells in mouse embryos - and a connection with neuroblastoma

Next on the programme we have Irina Poverennaya of the @adameykolab.bsky.social at @meduniwien.ac.at, to share her knowledge on how rRNA-Modifications Connect Mesenchymal Fate Selection in Neural Crest and Prognosis in Neuroblastoma 
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Have you ever wondered how nails grow? Well today is the day we find out!
Nail proximal fold stem cells can change their fate in response to injury - here we find out how BMP and WNT signalling contribute to this by using mouse models
#tissueregeneration #celltransplantation

Our next speaker - Anna Pulawska-Czub from the University of Warsaw. She presents a talk Unlocking Regeneration: The Potential of Nail Proximal Fold Stem Cells

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Radek will describe an unrecognised cell population, which takes part in regeneration initiation and uncover its role in tail regeneration of Xenopus laevis embryos. Don't miss out!

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And we proceed with Radek Šindelka, Institute of Biotechnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, who will tell us about Identification of Regeneration Initiation Cells and Their Function

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Cellular senescence can be either protective or detrimental to an organism - this depends entirely on the situation!
She will tell us about its role both during mammary gland involution and its implications in breast cancer

The last invited speaker of the conference is none other than Han Li @hanli-pasteur.bsky.social from Institut Pasteur @pasteur.fr who will tell us about the Double-Edged Sword: Cellular Senescence in the Mammary Gland
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The rest of the session will be chaired by Zuzana Sumbalová Koledová @sumbalovakoledova.bsky.social from @imgprague.bsky.social - we are looking forward to this final set of talks!
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Krzysztof will talk about the largest tissue of our body - the skin, and how hair follicle stem cells are involved in hair regeneration, covering the Bmp-Id2 axis and its role in quiescence.

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And we proceed with an exciting talk by Krzysztof Kobielak from the University of Warsaw, The BMP-ID2 Axis Reveals a Reversible Hair Follicle Stem Cells Gene Network That Regulates Intrinsic Oscillations Between Opposing States During Hair Regeneration

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Igor will provide us new insights on how the cells decide their fate, and what is happening during early development. Stay tuned!

We start with an invited talk Clonal Reconstruction at Single Cell Level Helps to Decipher Embryonic Development by Igor Adameyko @adameykolab.bsky.social, Karolinska Institute @ki.se & Medical University of Vienna @meduniwien.ac.at

Welcome to the day 3! We start with a session Stem cells and plasticity, chaired by Nàndor Nagy, Semmelweis University. Grab some coffee and join us!

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Scientists are multipotent - we can have a great time on the dance floor as well as playing chess or a game of cards!

Conferences aren’t only for science but also to have fun with colleagues and making new friends. What better time for this than the gala dinner on our last evening together!
Keep an eye out, the evening has only just begun!
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His work is furthering the development of the chicken as a model organism. The lab has established a new method to optimise CRISPR/Cas9 editing in chick embryos with some very exciting results

Last but certainly not least, the final talk of the day is on Ancient Pharyngeal Proto-Pituitary in Embryos of Basal Fishes held by Agáta Horáčková from Charles University! @charlesuni.cuni.cz @sciencecharles.bsky.social
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Lactation is a key feature of mammals and successful nursing is essential for the survival of offspring. The talk showed exciting new insights, comparing the development of bones and muscles in the mouse with the echidna and the platypus, which lack nipples and therefore nurse by a different method

To tell us about his lab’s research into Missing Genetics in the Classical Developmental Model: Filling the Gap Using Primordial Germ Cells and Gene Editing in Chickens, we have Jiří Hejnar from @imgprague.bsky.social!
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