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Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · 2d

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Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · 13d

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)

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Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · 13d

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)

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Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · 13d

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Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · 13d

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Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · 13d

Stay Connected with VGZT Season 7 🌍

From Oct 2025–July 2026, join our online seminar series featuring cutting-edge developmental biology across diverse model organisms. Hear from senior PhD students, postdocs, and PIs as they share their latest discoveries with a global audience.

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Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · 14d

As we close VGZT season 6, we’d like to THANKS all the speakers and participants for this fantastic season ✨.
The VGZT 7 organiser team is ready and coming 👇. New announcements are coming soon, keep an eye out ⭐.

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Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · Aug 6

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

Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · Jul 31

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.“

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Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · Jul 31

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.“

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Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · Jul 16

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 👇

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Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · Jul 12

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! 🥳

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Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · Jul 8

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

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Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · Jul 2

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

Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · Jun 26

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

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Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · Jun 26

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

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Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · Jun 18

Join us for our next seminar:
🗓️ Thursday, June 19
⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET

Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · Jun 13

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

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Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · Jun 13

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

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Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · Jun 10

Join us for talks by Ramkumar Sambasivan & @mundhegayatri.bsky.social in the upcoming VGZT Eastern session ☀️☕

🗓️ Wednesday June 11
⏰ 13:30 IST / 17:00 JST / 8:00 UTC / 10:00 CET

Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · Jun 6

The next VGZT Eastern session ☀️☕ is happening next week:

🗓️ Wednesday June 11
⏰ 13:30 IST / 17:00 JST / 8:00 UTC / 10:00 CET

Our speakers:

Ramkumar Sambasivan
👉 Retinoic acid, Wnt/β-catenin signaling & mesoderm patterning

Gayatri Mundhe
👉 Biochemical and mechanical control of a morphogenetic wave

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Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · Jun 6

@mundhegayatri.bsky.social

Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · Jun 6

The next VGZT Eastern session ☀️☕ is happening next week:

🗓️ Wednesday June 11
⏰ 13:30 IST / 17:00 JST / 8:00 UTC / 10:00 CET

Our speakers:

Ramkumar Sambasivan
👉 Retinoic acid, Wnt/β-catenin signaling & mesoderm patterning

Gayatri Mundhe
👉 Biochemical and mechanical control of a morphogenetic wave

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Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · Jun 4

Our next session is coming up soon! Join us for gastruloids and sea urchins:

🗓️ Thursday, June 05
⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET

Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · May 30

Next Western 🌙 VGZT session:
🗓️ Thursday, June 05
⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET

Luke Simpson
👉Gastruloids reveal the dynamics of interspecies development and chimerism

Thierry Lepage
👉Maternal factors shaping the expression of Nodal: the two faces of the TGF-β Panda

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Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · May 30

Next Western 🌙 VGZT session:
🗓️ Thursday, June 05
⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET

Luke Simpson
👉Gastruloids reveal the dynamics of interspecies development and chimerism

Thierry Lepage
👉Maternal factors shaping the expression of Nodal: the two faces of the TGF-β Panda

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Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · May 21

Next VGZT western 🌙 session tomorrow:
🗓️ Thursday, May 22
⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET

Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · May 16

Please join next week‘s Western 🌙 VGZT:
🗓️ Thursday, May 22
⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET

@aliseleit.bsky.social
👉Developmental heterochrony & evolution of segmentation in eels

@laura-rustarazo.bsky.social
👉Rigidity transitions & epithelial organization in 🐟 embryos

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Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · May 16

Please join next week‘s Western 🌙 VGZT:
🗓️ Thursday, May 22
⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET

@aliseleit.bsky.social
👉Developmental heterochrony & evolution of segmentation in eels

@laura-rustarazo.bsky.social
👉Rigidity transitions & epithelial organization in 🐟 embryos

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Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · May 13

The next VGZT seminar is happening tomorrow!
🗓️ Wednesday May 14
⏰ 13:30 IST / 17:00 JST / 8:00 UTC / 10:00 CET

Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · May 9

Join us for another VGZT Eastern session ☀️☕ next week:

🗓️ Wednesday May 14
⏰ 13:30 IST / 17:00 JST / 8:00 UTC / 10:00 CET

Our speakers are:

Edwina McGlinn @eddymcglinn.bsky.social
🐁 Vertebrate body elongation

Mona Hosny
🐁 Insights from a novel mouse model for mitochondrial dysfunction

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Virtual Gastrulation Zoom Talks @vgzt2021.bsky.social · May 9

Join us for another VGZT Eastern session ☀️☕ next week:

🗓️ Wednesday May 14
⏰ 13:30 IST / 17:00 JST / 8:00 UTC / 10:00 CET

Our speakers are:

Edwina McGlinn @eddymcglinn.bsky.social
🐁 Vertebrate body elongation

Mona Hosny
🐁 Insights from a novel mouse model for mitochondrial dysfunction

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