Programme
Gastrulation Reloaded
Developing, engineering and evolving the body plan

October 14-17, 2025
Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
 
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Registration
4.45 pm-5.45 pm
Openings remarks
5.45 pm-6.00 pm
Keynote lecture
6.00 pm-7.00 pm
1
6.00 pm

Gastrulation Reloaded: 50 Years of Adventure 

Ray Keller
College of Arts and Sciences and School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, United States
Welcome reception
7.00 pm-8.00 pm
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Session 1 - Lineage and fate specification
09.00 am-10.15 am
Chair: Alfonso Martinez Arias, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
2
09.00 am

Guts and gastrulation

Anna Katarina Hadjantonakis
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, United States
3
09.25 am

In vivo cell lineage tracing reveals early segregation of trunk neural crest from caudal epiblast

Ashley Libby
Briscoe Lab, The Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom
4
09.50 am

Emergence of a novel innate immune cell lineage prior to gastrulation in the African Turquoise Killifish

Philip Abitua
University of Washington, United States
Coffee Break
10.15 am-10.45 am
Session 1 - Lineage and fate specification
10.45 am-12.00 pm
Chair: Alfonso Martinez Arias, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
5
10.45 am

Creating to understand: leveraging stem-cell-based models to elucidate principles of development

Jesse Veenvliet
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany
6
11.10 am

Robust Modeling of Trunk and Neural Patterning with Livestock Stem Cell-Derived Embryo Models

Michelle Hauser
Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
7
11.35 am

Spatiotemporal emergence of somatosensory neuron diversity in zebrafish

Joaquin Navajas Acedo
Schier Lab, Biozentrum at the University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Lunch and exhibition (meet the speaker tables)
12.00 pm-1.30 pm
Session 2 - cell behaviors and their control
1.30 pm-3.10 pm
Chair: Kate Mcdole, MRC laboratory of Molecular biology, United Kingdom
8
1.30 pm

Connecting the dots: linking fate and shape in vertebrate gastrulation

Diana Pinheiro
Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Austria
9
1.55 pm

Modes of Elongation

Pierre-François Lenne
IBDM, Turing Center for Living Systems, CNRS, Aix Marseille Univ, Marseille, France
10
2.20 pm

Evolving mechanisms of collision avoidance in fly gastrulation

Steffen Lemke
Centre for Organismal Studies University of Heidelberg, Germany
11
2.45 pm

Collective oscillatory large-scale calcium waves in the gastrulating Medaka embryo

Simon Knoblich
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany
Coffee Break
3.10 pm-3.40 pm
Session 2 - cell behaviors and their control
3.40 pm-5.20 pm
Chair: Kate Mcdole, MRC laboratory of Molecular biology, United Kingdom
12
3.40 pm

The coordination of critical cell behaviours driving primitive streak formation in the chick embryo

Kees Weijer
University of Dundee, United Kingdom
13
4.05 pm

Composite morphogenesis: how can a tissue fold and extend at the same time

Matteo Rauzi
Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, Inserm, IBV, Nice, France
14
4.30 pm

Investigating the Mechanochemical Basis of Cell Fate Decisions Using Multiplexed Protein Mapping of Developing Embryo

Shayan Shami Pour
University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
15
4.55 pm

Abrupt suppression of NODAL signaling triggers primitive streak regression and axial body formation in amniote embryos

Yu Ieda
régulation dynamique de la morphogenese, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Poster session 1 (Drinks - cocktail - Networking)
5.20 pm-7.00 pm
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Session 3 - Signalling and gene regulation
09.00 am-10.15 am
Chair: Benjamin Steventon, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
16
09.00 am

Regulation of gastrulation progression by successively acting regulatory modules of signals and transcription factors

Sebastian Arnold
Institute of Pharmacology, University of Freiburg, Germany, Freiburg, Germany
17
09.25 am

Study of the role of BMP signalling during Primitive Streak regionalisation using mouse 2D Gastruloids

Gaël Simon
Institut Jacques Monod, Université Paris Cité, CNRS, 75013, Paris, France Institut Curie, Université PSL, Sorbonne Université, CNRS UMR168, Physics of Cells and Cancer, 75005, Paris, France
18
09.50 am

A matter of time: sulfatase modifiers govern the onset of morphogenetic cell movements

Margot Williams
Center for Precision Environmental Health, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States
Coffee Break
10.15 am-10.45 am
Session 3 - Signalling and gene regulation
10.45 am-12.00 pm
Chair: Benjamin Steventon, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
19
10.45 am

Reconstitution of minimal requirements for neural tube self-organisation: two transcription factors and regulative fate allocation

Hannah Stuart
Tanaka lab, IMBA, Vienna, Austria
20
11.10 am

Cis-regulatory strategies for cell fate choice: spatial, temporal and synthetic patterning in the vertebrate neural tube

M Joaquina Delas
University College London, London, United Kingdom
21
11.35 am

PRC2 safeguards ontogeny by restricting stochastic lineage commitment in post-implantation embryos

Daniel Ming-Kang Lee
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
Sponsor talk
12.00 pm-12.10 pm
Lunch and exhibition
12.10 pm-1.30 pm
Session 4 - Cell and tissue mechanics
1.30 pm-3.10 pm
Chair: Pavel Tomancak, Max Planck Institute for molecular cell biology and genetics, Germany
22
1.30 pm

Geometry-driven asymmetric cell divisions pattern cell cycles and zygotic genome activation in the zebrafish embryos

Carl-Philipp Heisenberg
Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria
23
1.55 pm

Uncovering the Interplay between Morphogens, Cell Fates and Mechanical Forces in Human Gastruloid Discs

Chloé Roffay
Pinheiro lab, IMP Vienna, Wien, Austria
24
2.20 pm

Tissue morphogenesis from signals to forces

Adam Martin
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
25
2.45 pm

A mechanically distinct yolk compartment constrains blastoderm and gastrulation morphogenesis

Sameer Thukral
RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe, Japan
Coffee Break
3.10 pm-3.40 pm
Session 5 - Integrating morphogenesis and patterning
3.40 pm-4.55 pm
Chair: Lilianna Solnica-Krezel, Washington University School of Medicine, United States
26
3.40 pm

Metabolic regulators of mammalian gastrulation

Berna Sozen
27
4.05 pm

Extended culture of 2D gastruloids to model human mesoderm development

Bohan Chen
Department of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
28
4.30 pm

Behavioural and mechanical heterogeneities underpin cell migration essential for mouse anterior patterning

Shankar Srinivas
Department of Physiology Anatomy & Genetics, Institute of Developmental and Regenerative Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Poster session 2 (Drinks - cocktail - Networking)
5.00 pm-6.30 pm
Social event - Dinner
7.00 pm-10.00 pm
Friday, October 17, 2025
Session 6 - Axis elongation a continuation of gastrulation?
09.00 am-10.15 am
Chair: Jérome Gros, Institut Pasteur, France
29
09.00 am

Control of epiblast cell fate by mechanical cues

Charlene Guillot
Institute of Genetics, Reproduction & Development, France Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
30
09.25 am

Growth and patterning of the vertebral column: The long and short of it

Edwina Mcglinn
Monash University, Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Clayton, Australia
31
09.50 am

Towards reconstituting human post-gastrulation development in vitro

Cantas Alev
Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology (ASHBi), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Coffee Break
10.15 am-10.45 am
Session 6 - Axis elongation a continuation of gastrulation?
10.45 am-12.00 pm
Chair: Jérome Gros, Institut Pasteur, France
32
10.45 am

Thresholds in axis-building: revisiting the role of TBXT

Val Wilson
Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Institute for Regeneration and Repair, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
33
11.10 am

Coordinating Cell Fate and Morphogenesis during Post-Gastrulation Axis Elongation in the Quail Embryo

Bertrand Benazeraf
CBI Toulouse France, CNRS, Toulouse, France
34
11.35 am

Genetic ablation of Hox function in mammalian pseudo-embryos reveals major rewiring in the early developmental program

Hocine Rekaik
College de France, Paris, France
Concluding remarks - End of the meeting
12.00 pm-12.30 pm


 

 

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