Program
| 12:00 | Registration opens |
| 14:00 | Welcome Note: Kai-Uwe Kühnberger (Vice President for Research, Social Dialog and Outreach), Osnabrück Kerstin Bartscherer (GfE president), Osnabrück |
| 14:10 | Keynote 1: Melina Schuh (Göttingen) New insights into meiosis in mammalian oocytes |
| 14:55-16:00 | Session 1: Stem cells and fate decisions I, Chair: Dorothee Bornhorst, Münster |
| 14:55 | Erez Raz (Münster) The role of the Dead end protein in controlling the spatial organization and function of RNA molecules within zebrafish germ-cell granules |
| 15:20 | Mara Bouwman (Utrecht) Interspecies comparison reveals Hmga1 driven clearance of H3K27me3 underlying natural variation in cardiac regenerative capacity |
| 15:35 | Ivan Bedzhov (Münster) Tissue morphogenesis and cell fate dynamics in the early mouse embryo |
| 16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:30-18:40 | Session 2: Stem cells and fate decisions II, Chair: Florian Raible, Vienna |
| 16:30 | Fabian Rentzsch (Bergen) An ancient role for the Lsd1-CoREST complex in nervous system development |
| 16:55 | Margot Smit (Tübingen) Slow and not so furious: temporal control of cell fate in the stomatal lineage |
| 17:10 | Harsha Devalla (Amsterdam) Transcriptional and epigenetic dynamics during cardiac pacemaker cell specification |
| 17:35 | Victoria Mironova (Nijmegen) Revealing the Intricacies of Root Stem Cell Niche via RootCellAtlas |
| 18:00 | Yiteng Dang (Dresden) Tilting cell fate decisions by perturbing extracellular matrix organization during skull development |
| 18:15 | Jochen Wittbrodt (Heidelberg) Towards the genetics of individuality |
| 18:40 | Poster flash talks |
| 19:00 | Food, drinks & poster session I |
| 9:00 | Keynote 2: Christof Niehrs (Mainz): Spemann-Mangold Organizer 100th anniversary lecture |
| 9:45-10:25 | Session 3: Emergence and maintenance of patterns I, Chair: Olga Jarosinska, Utrecht |
| 9:45 | Martin Bayer (Tübingen) MAP kinase signaling in cell polarity – how parental signals shape the plant embryo |
| 10:00 | Rene Schneider (Potsdam) Unraveling the protein machinery controlling cell wall patterning in the plant vasculature |
| 10:25 | Coffee break |
| 11:00-12:35 | Session 4: Emergence and maintenance of patterns II, Chair: Kerstin Feistel, Hohenheim |
| 11:00 | Gaia Tavosanis (Aachen) Shaping the arbors: mechanisms of neuronal dendrite differentiation |
| 11:25 | Uwe Töpfer (British Columbia) AdamTS proteases control basement membrane heterogeneity and organ shape |
| 11:40 | Gregor Bucher (Göttingen) Temporal control of RNAi reveals both robust and labile feedback loops in the segmentation clock of the red flour beetle |
| 11:55 | Peter Walentek (Freiburg) Self-organization of mucociliary epithelia: from stem cells to patterns in time and space |
| 12:10 | Andriy Yatsenko (Hanover) The ECM receptor Dystroglycan is important for the blood-testis barrier formation |
| 12:25 | Lunch break |
| 13:35 | GfE Members Council/DSDB Members Council |
| 14:35-16:10 | Session 5: When location matters, Chair: Felix Gunawan, Münster |
| 14:35 | Annette Borchers (Marburg) Should I stay or should I go? How the RhoGEF Trio controls neural crest migration |
| 15:00 | Arica Beisaw (Heidelberg) Molecular and cellular mechanisms regulating cardiomyocyte invasion of collagenous tissue during zebrafish heart regeneration |
| 15:15 | Josefine Hoeren (Hohenheim) The endocytic receptor Lrp2 orchestrates apical constriction and cell polarity to drive cranial neural tube closure |
| 15:30 | Sophie Jarriault (Straßbourg) Using C. elegans to get minute insights into the cellular trajectory of terminal differentiation |
| 15:55 | Evgeniya Pukhovaya (Wageningen) Proteomics approach to identify cell polarity regulators in plants |
| 16:10 | Coffee break / meet the speakers |
| 16:50-18:25 | Session 6: Genetic and epigenetic control of development, Chair: Thomas Greb, Heidelberg |
| 16:50 | Jaques Bothma (Utrecht) Defining precise patterns of gene expression by regulating the timing of enhancer activity in the Drosophila embryo |
| 17:15 | Lieve van der Maarel (Amsterdam) Familial deletion of a TAD boundary in a gene desert implicates Pitx2 in the dysregulation of cardiac pacemaker development and arrhythmogenesis |
| 17:30 | Katrin Domsch (Heidelberg) The uncharacterised autonomous function of the Hox gene Antennapedia (Antp) during adult muscle development. |
| 17:45 | Laia Caudet Segarra (Erlangen) Neuronal subtype specification of spinal projection and motor neurons by a common temporal sequence |
| 18:00 | Claudia Köhler (Potsdam) Epigenetic regulation of seed development and plant speciation |
| 18:25 | Poster flash talks |
| 18:35 | Food, drinks & Poster session II |
| 9:00 | Keynote 3: Susana Coelho (Tübingen) Algal views on evo-devo of sex determination |
| 9:45-10:30 | Session 7: Quantifying and modeling development I, Chair: Heiko Harten, Osnabrück |
| 9:45 | Lauren Saunders (Heidelberg) Embryo-scale reverse genetics at single-cell resolution reveals lineage-specific genetic modules underlying cranial development |
| 10:00 | Erika Tsingos (Utrecht) A systematic in silico screen identifies thymic niche alterations as a synergistic driver in the clonal expansion of malignant T-cell progenitors |
| 10:15 | Maik Bischoff (Chapel Hill, NC) A Novel Role for Semaphorin/Plexin Signaling in Collective Cell Migration |
| 10:30 | Josephine Bageritz (Heidelberg) Deciphering Muscle Stem Cell Heterogeneity and Pool Sizes in Muscle Stem Cells Through Advanced Imaging and Analysis |
| 10:45 | Coffee break |
| 11:15-12:45 | Session 8: Quantifying and modeling development II, Chair: Ina Sonnen, Utrecht |
| 11:15 | Susana Chuva Sousa Lopes (Leiden) Development of the human fetal gonads and reproductive tracts |
| 11:40 | Hanh Vu (Heidelberg) Mechanisms of body size control: Lessons from planarian flatworms |
| 12:05 | Matthew Davies (Münster) Spectraplakin Couples Microtubule Orientation to Actin During Dendritic Pruning in Drosophila |
| 12:20 | Kirsten ten Tusscher (Utrecht) Remembering who you are: Specifying founder cells for lateral root formation |
| 12:45 | Lunch break |
| 13:45-14:30 | Katarina Timofeev (German Research Foundation) - Funding opportunities for early career researchers |
| 14:30-15:40 | Session 9: Evolutionary adaptions, Chair: Patrick Steinmetz, Bergen |
| 14:30 | Alexander Klimovich (Kiel) Genome size and gene family expansion in the metaorganism context: insights from genus Hydra |
| 14:45 | Anna D. Senft (NIH) Mouse embryos tolerate widespread ectopic retroviral activity after implantation |
| 15:00 | Grigory Genikhovich (Vienna) β-catenin-driven endomesoderm specification appears to be a Bilateria-specific novelty |
| 15:15 | Miltos Tsiantis (Köln) From genotype to phenotype in leaf development and evolution |
| 15:40 | Coffee break |
| 16:15-18:05 | GfE Awards Session |
| 16:15 | Poster Awards - presented by The Company of Biologists |
| 16:30 | Klaus-Sander-Laudatio: Michael Brand (Dresden) |
| 16:40 | Klaus-Sander Award Lecture: Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (Tübingen) Animal beauty: function and evolution of biological aesthetics |
| 17:25 | Quick break |
| 17:35 | GfE PhD Award 2024 lecture: Marco Podobnik (Melbourne) |
| 17:50 | GfE Hilde-Mangold Award lecture: Daniel Wehner (Erlangen) |
| 19:00 | Networking event at the Alando (invitation by University Society Osnabrück) |
| 9:30 | Keynote 4: Anna Akhmanova (Utrecht) Cellular roadmaps: control of cell polarity and migration by dynamic microtubules |
| 10:15-11:10 | Session 10: Regeneration and disease models I. Chair: Vanessa Disela, Utrecht |
| 10:15 | Leonie Adelmann (Vienna) Dissecting the re-establishment of stem cells for hormone-dependent posterior regeneration in a marine annelid |
| 10:30 | Denis Headon (Edinburgh) Organizing the embryonic skin with patterning waves |
| 10:55 | Mathilda Mommersteeg (Oxford) Identifying the metabolic profile underlying successful fish heart regeneration |
| 11:20 | Coffee break |
| 11:40-13:40 | Session 11: Regeneration and disease models II, Chair: Leah Biggs, Münster |
| 11:40 | Nadia Mercader (Bern) Intergenerational effects of cardiac injury |
| 12:05 | Alejandra Lopez Delgado (Dresden) Compartmentalization and synergy of osteoblasts drive bone formation in the regenerating fin |
| 12:20 | Elke Ober (Erlangen) Building a liver: cellular mechanisms establishing organ architecture and size |
| 12:45 | Kai Jürgens (Osnabrück) A Drosophila model for TMEM43-induced human cardiomyopathies reveals ERMCS involvement |
| 13:00 | Lika Drakhlis (Hanover) Advanced heart-forming organoids for modeling human multi-organ development |
| 13:15 | Hugo Snippert (Utrecht) Heterogeneity in tumors: a real-time and single-cell perspective |
| 13:40 | Farewell |