Tuesday, October 14, 2025
| Registration |
| 4.45 pm-5.45 pm
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| Openings remarks |
| 5.45 pm-6.00 pm
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| Keynote lecture |
| 6.00 pm-7.00 pm
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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
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| Welcome reception |
| 7.00 pm-8.00 pm
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Wednesday, October 15, 2025
| Session 1 - Lineage and fate specification |
| 09.00 am-10.15 am
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| Chair: Alfonso Martinez Arias, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain |
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09.00 am |
Guts and gastrulation
Anna Katarina Hadjantonakis Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, United States
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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
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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
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| Coffee Break |
| 10.15 am-10.45 am
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| Session 1 - Lineage and fate specification |
| 10.45 am-12.00 pm
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| Chair: Alfonso Martinez Arias, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain |
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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
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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
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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
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| Lunch and exhibition (meet the speaker tables) |
| 12.00 pm-1.30 pm
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| Session 2 - cell behaviors and their control |
| 1.30 pm-3.10 pm
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| Chair: Kate Mcdole, MRC laboratory of Molecular biology, United Kingdom |
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1.30 pm |
Connecting the dots: linking fate and shape in vertebrate gastrulation
Diana Pinheiro Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Austria
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9
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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10
2.20 pm |
Evolving mechanisms of collision avoidance in fly gastrulation
Steffen Lemke Centre for Organismal Studies University of Heidelberg, Germany
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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
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| Coffee Break |
| 3.10 pm-3.40 pm
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| Session 2 - cell behaviors and their control |
| 3.40 pm-5.20 pm
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| Chair: Kate Mcdole, MRC laboratory of Molecular biology, United Kingdom |
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3.40 pm |
The coordination of critical cell behaviours driving primitive streak formation in the chick embryo
Kees Weijer University of Dundee, United Kingdom
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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
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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
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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
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| Poster session 1 (Drinks - cocktail - Networking) |
| 5.20 pm-7.00 pm
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Thursday, October 16, 2025
| Session 3 - Signalling and gene regulation |
| 09.00 am-10.15 am
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| Chair: Benjamin Steventon, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom |
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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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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
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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
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| Coffee Break |
| 10.15 am-10.45 am
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| Session 3 - Signalling and gene regulation |
| 10.45 am-12.00 pm
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| Chair: Benjamin Steventon, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom |
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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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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
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| Sponsor talk |
| 12.00 pm-12.10 pm
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| Lunch and exhibition |
| 12.10 pm-1.30 pm
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| Session 4 - Cell and tissue mechanics |
| 1.30 pm-3.10 pm
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| Chair: Pavel Tomancak, Max Planck Institute for molecular cell biology and genetics, Germany |
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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
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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
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24
2.20 pm |
Tissue morphogenesis from signals to forces
Adam Martin Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
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2.45 pm |
A mechanically distinct yolk compartment constrains blastoderm and gastrulation morphogenesis
Sameer Thukral RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe, Japan
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| Coffee Break |
| 3.10 pm-3.40 pm
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| Session 5 - Integrating morphogenesis and patterning |
| 3.40 pm-4.55 pm
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| Chair: Lilianna Solnica-Krezel, Washington University School of Medicine, United States |
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3.40 pm |
Metabolic regulators of mammalian gastrulation
Berna Sozen
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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
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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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| Poster session 2 (Drinks - cocktail - Networking) |
| 5.00 pm-6.30 pm
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| Social event - Dinner |
| 7.00 pm-10.00 pm
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Friday, October 17, 2025
| Session 6 - Axis elongation a continuation of gastrulation? |
| 09.00 am-10.15 am
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| Chair: Jérome Gros, Institut Pasteur, France |
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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
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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 |
Towards reconstituting human post-gastrulation development in vitro
Cantas Alev Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology (ASHBi), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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| Coffee Break |
| 10.15 am-10.45 am
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| Session 6 - Axis elongation a continuation of gastrulation? |
| 10.45 am-12.00 pm
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| Chair: Jérome Gros, Institut Pasteur, France |
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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
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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
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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
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| Concluding remarks - End of the meeting |
| 12.00 pm-12.30 pm
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