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Official Bluesky Page for Season 7 of VGZT. Every 1st & 3rd Thursday at 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET.
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Join us next week for the second Eastern VGZT of the season! 🤩

🗓️ Wednesday, December 10th
⏰ 9:00 UTC / 9:00 GMT / 10:00 CET / 14:30 IST / 18:00 JST / 20:00 AEDT

Our speakers are:
👉 Guojun Sheng
👉 Jennifer Zenker

See you there! ✨
December 6, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Join us next week for another round of inspiring VGZT talks! 🤩

🗓️ Thursday, December 4th
⏰ 9:30 PST / 12:30 EST / 17:30 UTC / 17:30 GMT / 18:30 CET

Our speakers are
👉 Luca Braccioli (@bracciolilab.bsky.social)
👉 Komal Makwana (on X: @Komal_Makwana4)

See you next week 👋
November 29, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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 14, 2025 at 8:43 AM
We are excited to announce the first Eastern ☀️VGZT session for this season!✨🎉

📅Tomorrow, November 12th
⏰ 9:00 UTC / 9:00 GMT / 10:00 CET / 14:30 IST / 18:00 JST / 20:00 AEDT

Our speakers are:
👉Sameer Thukral (on X: @SameerThukral6)
👉Axel Newton (on X: @AxelHNewton)

See you on tomorrow☕️👋
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
🚀 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
Join us next week for another exciting VGZT session!

🗓️ Thursday, November 6th
⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET

Our speakers are

👉 David Oriola (@davidoriola.bsky.social)
👉 Nicole Edwards (@nicoleedwds.bsky.social)

See you then! 👋
October 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
We are excited to announce the second Western VGZT of Season 7!

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

Our speakers:
👉 Hidenobu Miyazawa (on X: @HidenobuAnzo)
👉 Girish Kale (@girishkalephd.bsky.social)

See you next week! 👋
October 10, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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
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 ⭐.
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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
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
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
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 10:54 AM
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
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
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
June 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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
May 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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
May 16, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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
May 9, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Next Western 🌙 VGZT coming up:
🗓️ Thursday, May 08
⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET

👉 @ancheldjs.bsky.social (Regulation of chromosome segregation fidelity across lineage specification)

👉 @emmanuelhaillot.bsky.social (Mesoderm and endoderm formation in Nematostella)
May 1, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Join us for our next Western 🌙 VGZT on
🗓️ Thursday, April 24
⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET

👉 @erosadoolivieri.bsky.social (human trachea-esophageal morphogenesis)

👉 @susannevandenbrink.bsky.social (signaling balance during mesodermal and haematopoietic development)
April 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM
🌛Season flyer for the Western sessions:
Happening bi-weekly on Thursdays.

Keynote speakers will be announced soon!

We thank all the speakers and look forward to hearing their exciting science!
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April 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Thank you VGZT community for your active participation 🌎

See below the session flyers for the rest of the season:

🌞 Eastern sessions: Happening on Wednesdays.

Our keynote for this season: Maithreyi Narasimha and @josesilvalab.bsky.social

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April 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Mark your calendars for another VGZT Eastern session ☀️☕

🗓️ Wednesday Apr 09
⏰ 17:00 JST / 8:00 UTC / 10:00 CET

Bipasha Dey
“Divergent evolutionary strategies prevent tissue collision in fly embryos”🪰

Chii Jou (Joe) Chan
“Ovarian mechanobiology: roles of compressive stress in follicle development”🐁
April 3, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Come join our next Western 🌙 VGZT on Thursday!
🗓️ Thursday, April 3rd at
⏰ 9:30 PDT / 12:30 EDT / 16:30 UTC / 17:30 BST / 18:30 CET

Our speakers:

Madalena Madeira Reimão Pinto @madalenamrp.bsky.social
🐟5' UTRs in translational control

Xingbo Yang
🐁 Bioenergetics of spindle self-organization
March 28, 2025 at 11:02 PM