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David Mörsdorf
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Biochemist; postdoctoral researcher at University of Vienna @univie.ac.at in the group of @genikhovich.bsky.social; studying BMP signaling during sea anemone embryogenesis;
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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
November 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Tomorrow is VGZT day! 🚀

Don’t miss the great talks from
👉 Allison Kann (@apkann.bsky.social)
👉 Joana da Silva (on X: @joanamsilva14)
Join us for next week’s exciting VGZT session! 🎉

🗓️ Thursday, November 20th
⏰ 9:30 PST / 12:30 EST / 17:30 UTC / 17:30 GMT / 18:30 CET

Our speakers are
👉 Allison Kann (@apkann.bsky.social)
👉 Joana da Silva (on X: @joanamsilva14)

See you there 👋
November 19, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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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...
Ectopic head regeneration after nervous system ablation in a sea anemone
Via genetic ablation of neurons, Mazloumi Gavgani et al. show that the nervous system is essential for defining axial polarity during whole-body regeneration in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis.
www.cell.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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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
November 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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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-...
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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🚀 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 👋✨
November 6, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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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....
November 3, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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🪸 🪸 🪸 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...
October 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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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...
October 28, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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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...
Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS (1933-2025) | Magdalene College
Magdalene College is deeply saddened to announce the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS, who served as Master of the College from 1995 to 2002.
www.magd.cam.ac.uk
October 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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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)
September 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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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
September 21, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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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...
September 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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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.“
August 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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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.“
July 31, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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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 👇
July 16, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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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! 🥳
July 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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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
July 9, 2025 at 7:22 AM
VGZT keynote coming up!
Join the VGZT Eastern KEYNOTE lecture ☀️☕ TOMORROW

🗓️ Wednesday July 09
⏰ 13:30 IST / 17:00 JST / 8:00 UTC / 10:00 CET

Featuring:
1) Maithreyi Narasimha
👉Positioning tissues during Drosophila morphogenesis

Jose Silva @josesilvalab.bsky.social
👉From founder cells to organogenesis-stage embryo model
July 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Looking forward to this! 🥳
Less than 24h to go! Join us for one of the last seminars this season! 🐭🐸🐟

🗓️ Thursday, July 03
⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET
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
July 2, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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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
June 26, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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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...
Wittgenstein-Preis an Biochemikerin Tanaka
Der mit 1,9 Millionen Euro höchstdotierte Wissenschaftspreis des Landes, der Wittgenstein-Preis des Wissenschaftsfonds FWF, geht 2025 an Elly Tanaka. Die Biochemikerin erforscht die Regeneration kompl...
science.orf.at
June 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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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
June 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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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
June 13, 2025 at 9:38 PM
June 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM