Programme
Gastrulation Reloaded
Developing, engineering and evolving the body plan

October 14-17, 2025
Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
 
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Registration
3.30 pm-5.30 pm
Welcome reception
5.30 pm-6.30 pm
Openings remarks
6.30 pm-7.00 pm
Keynote lecture - Ray Keller
7.00 pm-8.00 pm
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Session 1 - Lineage and fate specification
09.00 am-10.15 am
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09.00 am
Anna Katarina Hadjantonakis
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09.50 am
Philip Abitua
Coffee Break
10.15 am-10.45 am
Session 1 - Lineage and fate specification
10.45 am-12.00 pm
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10.45 am
Jesse Veenvliet
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11.10 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
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11.35 am

Spatiotemporal emergence of somatosensory neuron diversity in zebrafish

Joaquin Navajas Acedo
Schier Lab, Biozentrum at the University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Sponsor talk
12.00 pm-12.15 pm
Lunch and exhibition (meet the speaker tables)
12.15 pm-1.30 pm
Session 2 - cell behaviors and their control
1.30 pm-3.10 pm
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1.30 pm
Diana Pinheiro
0
1.55 pm

Modes of Elongation

Pierre-François Lenne
IBDM, Turing Center for Living Systems, CNRS, Aix Marseille Univ, Marseille, France
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2.20 pm
Steffen Lemke
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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-5.00 pm
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3.40 pm
Kees Weijer
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4.00 pm
Mateo Rauzi
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4.20 pm

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

Shayan Shami Pour
University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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4.40 pm

Selected talk


Poster session 1 (Drinks - cocktail - Networking)
5.00 pm-7.00 pm
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Session 3 - Signalling and gene regulation
09.00 am-10.15 am
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Lunch and exhibition (meet the speaker tables)
12.00 pm-1.30 pm
Session 4 - Cell and tissue mechanics
1.30 pm-3.10 pm
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1.30 pm
Carl-Philipp Heisenberg
0
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
0
2.20 pm
Adam Martin
0
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-5.20 pm
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3.40 pm
Berna Sozen
0
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
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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
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4.55 pm

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

Michelle Hauser
Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Poster session 2 - Drinks - cocktail - Networking
5.20 pm-7.00 pm
Social event - Dinner
8.00 pm-9.00 pm
Friday, October 17, 2025
Session 6 - Axis elongation a continuation of gastrulation?
09.00 am-10.15 am
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09.00 am
Charlene Guillot
0
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
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09.50 am
Cantas Alev
Coffee Break
10.15 am-10.45 am
Session 6 - Axis elongation a continuation of gastrulation?
10.45 am-12.00 pm
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10.45 am
Val Wilson
0
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
0
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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