2nd Conference of the Visegrád Group Society for Developmental Biology
Szeged, 2021.09.02-05.
Lezárult nemzetközi / 2nd Conference of the Visegrád Group Society for Developmental Biology
Dear Colleagues,
on behalf of the organizing committee we are excited to announce that the 2nd Conference of the Visegrád Group Society for Developmental Biology will take place in the Biological Research Centre (BRC) Szeged, Hungary, between 3-6 September, 2020 in the organization of the V4 Society for Developmental Biology (V4SDB) and the Hungarian Genetics Society (MAGE). Both organizations are committed to continue the tradition which started with the first and inaugural meeting of V4SDB in Brno, in 2018.
We aim to organize a meeting which provides an ideal academic platform for researchers of the V4 region (and beyond) to present their latest research findings and describe emerging technologies, and directions in the field of developmental biology. A conference with a creative and friendly atmosphere, where former acquaintances are renewed and new collaborative partnerships are formed. The meeting will take place in the new conference center of the Biological Research Centre (BRC) Szeged, where the lecture halls, the poster and company exhibition areas will all be located in one building, together with the restaurant and social rooms, providing ample possibilities for professional discussions.
It is our main priority to provide a highly interactive environment between young scientists and renowned international experts, and motivate and educate early stage researchers through this meeting. To this end, a workshop will take place on the day before the conference, where students will present their research, can participate on a practical course and learn about open access (OA) and current alternative publication (e.g. preprint) opportunities from experts.
Hereby we kindly invite you to participate in the 2nd Conference of the Visegrád Group Society for Developmental Biology. We count on your contribution to a scientific symposium with great atmosphere that will be memorable and beneficial for the whole community of the Central European developmental biology sciences. The official language of the conference is English.
The congress is organized in collaboration with Régió10, Co. Their staff is happy to respond to your questions.
We hope to see you at the meeting!
Alexander W. Bruce (University of South Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic)
Vítězslav Bryja (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)
Marcela Buchtová (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)
Miklós Erdélyi (Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Hungary)
Dušan Fabián (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Animal Physiology, Kosice, Slovakia)
József Mihály (Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Hungary)
Anna Piliszek (Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Genetics and Animal Breeding, Magdalenka, Poland)
Máté Varga (ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary)
Péter Vilmos (Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Hungary)
DAY 0 – Thursday, 2nd of September – STUDENT WORKSHOP
from 09:30 Registration for students
09:45 – 10:00 Introduction and technical comments
10:00 – 12:00 Career advice:
How to use the Independent Development Plan (IDP) to plan your career
Orsolya Symmons
Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany
13:00 – 17:00 PRACTICAL WORKSHOP
17:00 – 19:00 Insights into scientific publishing 1:
How to write a fellowship/grant
Orsolya Symmons
Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany
19:00 – 24:00 Grill party
DAY 1 – Friday, 3rd of September
08:00 – 08:50 Student session/talks 1
Chair: Máté Varga
08:50 – 09:40 Student session/talks 2
Chair: Rita Sinka
09:40 – 10:00 Coffee break
10:00 – 10:50 Student session/talks 3
Chair: Péter Vilmos
10:50 – 11:40 Student session/talk 4
Chair: Viktor Honti
from 11:00 Registration opens to all participants
11:00 – 13:00 Lunchbox meal
13:00 – 13:30 Opening by the organisers
13:30 – 16:05 SESSION 1 – Early development
Chair: Pavel Tomancak
13:30 – 14:10 Keynote lecture:
Cytoplasmic forces functionally reorganize nuclear condensates in oocytes
Marie-Hélène Verlhac
Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology, College de France, Paris, France
14:10 – 14:50 Keynote lecture:
Understanding changing architecture of the mammalian embryo
Berenika Plusa
University of Manchester, Division of Developmental Biology and Medicine, United Kingdom
14:50 – 15:05 Is bigger also better? Functional comparison of somatic and larger, embryo specific linker histone during early Drosophila embryogenesis.
László Henn
Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Hungary
15:05 – 15:20 p38-MAPK-mediated translation regulation primes blastocyst development and is required for primitive endoderm differentiation in mice
Alexander W. Bruce
Laboratory of Early Mammalian Developmental Biology, Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
15:20 – 15:35 The detachment of the blastoderm-vitelline envelope interaction and blastoderm chirality
Giulia Serafini
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics – MPI-CBG, Dresden, Germany
15:35 – 15:50 Rabbit inner cell mass retains potential to differentiate into the trophectoderm lineage
Anna Piliszek
Department of Experimental Embryology, Institute of Genetics and Animal Biotechnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Jastrzebiec, Poland
15:50 – 16:05 The role of activin A in the regulation of preimplantation development of mouse embryo
Eliza Winek
Department of Embryology, Institute of Developmental Biology and Biomedical Research, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Doctoral School of Exact and Natural Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
16:05 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 18:25 SESSION 2 – Organogenesis
Chair: Marcela Buchtova
16:30 – 17:10 Keynote lecture:
Aberrant activation of developmental programs in adult disease
Angela Nieto
Instituto de Neurociencias, Developmental Neurobiology Unit, Alicante, Spain
17:10 – 17:25 Pharyngeal component in the premandibular segment of the vertebrate head
Robert Cerny
Dept. Zoology, Charles University in Prague
17:25 – 17:40 Unique stem cell subpopulation which ensures mesenchymal regeneration of continuously growing teeth contributes to various tissue organogenesis
Jan Krivanek
Department of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
17:40 – 17:55 Developmental anoikis: A novel, protective safeguarding mechanism in the embryonic neocortex
Zsolt Lele
Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest, Hungary
17:55 – 18:10 Primary Cilia and Kidney Cysts Development in Nek8-deficient Mice
Daniela Kristekova
Laboratory of Molecular Morphogenesis, Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, v.v.i., Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
Section of Animal Physiology and Immunology, Department of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
18:10 – 18:25 Shedding light on the details of hemocyte transdifferentiation in Drosophila melanogaster with an artificial intelligence based technology
Erika Gábor
Drosophila Blood Cell Differentiation Group, Genetic Institute, ELKH, Szeged, Hungary
18:30 – 23:00 POSTER SESSION 1 (with Welcome Reception)
19:00 – 20:00 Insights into scientific publishing 2
Máté Pálffy
Cambridge, United Kingdom – Features & Reviews Editor, Journal of Cell Science at The Company of Biologists
DAY 2 – Saturday, 4th of September
08:30 – 10:25 SESSION 3 – Emerging Technologies and RNA Biology
Chair: Péter Vilmos
08:30 – 09:10 Keynote lecture:
Posttranscriptional control of the germline-soma dichotomy
Rafal Ciosk
University of Oslo, Department of Biosciences, Oslo, Norway
09:10 – 09:25 Cytoplasmic RNA exosome is essential for post-implantation mouse embryo development
Michał Brouze
Laboratory of RNA Biology, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Warsaw, Poland
09:25 – 09:40 Golden hamster piRNAs are necessary for zygote development and establishment of spermatogonia
Zuzana Loubalova
Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague 4, Czech Republic
09:40 – 09:55 The snoRNAome of zebrafish (Danio rerio)
Renáta Hamar
Department of Genetics, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
09:55 – 10:10 Multi-modal Volumetric Image Registration by Establishing Cell Correspondence
Manan Lalit
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
Center for Systems Biology, Dresden, Germany
10:10 – 10:25 How to choose the most suitable increased fidelity SpCas9 nuclease for high specificity genome editing
Péter István Kulcsár
Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Institute of Enzymology, Budapest, Hungary
Department of Biophysics and Radiation Biology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
10:25 – 10:50 Coffee break
10:50 – 13:00 SESSION 4 – Non-traditional Model Organisms
Chair: Máté Varga
10:50 – 11:30 Keynote lecture:
Whole-body connectomics and the study of motor control in larval Platynereis
Gáspár Jékely
University of Exeter, Living Systems Institute, United Kingdom
11:30 – 11:45 Revealing secrets of Proteus anguinus by 3D X-ray imaging
Markéta Tesařová
Central European Institute of Technology, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
11:45 – 12:00 The paradise fish (Macropodus opercularis) as a complementary model species of behavioral and developmental genetics
Máté Varga
Department of Genetics, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
12:00 – 12:15 Blastomeres Derived from the Vegetal Pole are the Extraembryonic Nutrition in Sturgeon Embryo: Transition from Holoblastic to Meroblastic Cleavage
Mujahid Shah
University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice, Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters, South Bohemian Research Center of Aquaculture and Biodiversity of Hydrocenoses, Vodnany, Czech Republic
12:15 – 12:30 Allele distribution modelling predicts climate change adaptation in the bank vole
Marco Alejandro Escalante
Laboratory of Molecular Ecology, Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Liběchov, Czech Republic
12:30 – 12:45 Insight into the maternal gene complement of Priapulus caudatus embryos
Ferenc Kagan
University of Bergen
12:45 – 13:00 X-ray Micro computed tomography imaging based collection of reptile skull models for morphological analysis of tooth attachment
Michaela Kavková
Central European Institute of Technology, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 16:10 SESSION 5 – Stem Cells, Organoids and Regeneration
Chair: Nándor Nagy
14:00 – 14:40 Keynote lecture:
Newt regeneration – evolution and regulation
András Simon
Karolinska Institutet, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Stockholm, Sweden
14:40 – 14:55 The role of matrix metalloproteinases during embryonic wound healing
Radek Sindelka
Institute of Biotechnology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Vestec, Czech Republic
14:55 – 15:10 hiPSC derived cardiomyocytes: struggles and hopes
Katarzyna Radaszkiewicz
Department of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
15:10 – 15:25 Sertoli cell progenitors as a promising tool for muscle regeneration
Vladimir Krylov
Charles University, Faculty of Science, Department of Cell Biology, Prague 2, Czech Republic
15:25 – 15:40 Exploring the Role of TMEM107 in Retinal Development Using Human Retinal Organoid Model
Tomáš Bárta
Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics CAS, Brno, Czech Republic
Department of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
15:40 – 15:55 Are LGR5-positive cells labeling stem cell niche in molars?
Marcela Buchtova
Laboratory of Molecular Morphogenesis, Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, Brno, Czech Republic
Department of Experimental Biology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
15:55 – 16:10 Setting up the model of Alzheimer’s disease using cerebral organoids
Dasa Bohaciakova
Department of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
International Clinical Research Center, St. Anne’s University Hospital, Brno, Czech Republic
16:10 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 18:40 SESSION 6 – Signalling pathways
Chair: József Mihály
16:30 – 17:10 Keynote lecture:
Towards understanding the dynamics of cell fate decisions and organization in the early mammalian embryo
Eszter Pósfai
Princeton University, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton, USA
17:10 – 17:25 In vivo examination of actin based membrane nanotubes in developing zebrafish embryos
Katalin Türmer
Department of Biophysics, Medical School, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary
17:25 – 17:40 DUSPing mouse embryonic stem cells – role of dual specificity phosphatases in differentiation
Stanislava Sladeček
Department of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
17:40 – 17:55 Avian ceca are required for hindgut enteric nervous system development by promoting enteric neural crest cell proliferation and inhibiting neuronal differentiation via non-canonical Wnt signaling
Nándor Nagy
Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
17:55 – 18:10 Wnt1 to rule them all: A story about the shared origin of all types of choroid plexi
Petra Kompanikóvá
Department of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
18:10 – 18:25 The role of CXCR4-CXCL12 signaling in extrinsic innervation of enteric nervous system develpoment
Viktória Halasy
Laboratory of Stem Cells and Experimental Embryology, Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
18:25 – 18:40 Diverse roles of ERK and AKT signaling pathways in epithelial morphogenesis
Jakub Sumbal
Department of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
18:40 – 19:40 POSTER SESSION 2
20:00 – 24:00 Banquet dinner at Hunguest Hotel Forrás
DAY 3 – Sunday, 5th of September
09:00 – 10:55 SESSION 7 – Morphogenesis/patterning/differentiation
Chair: Alexander W. Bruce
09:00 – 09:40 Keynote lecture:
The egg-to-embryo transition – from fertilization to translational regulation
Andrea Pauli
Research Institute of Molecular Pathology at the Vienna Biocenter, Vienna, Austria
09:40 – 09:55 Patterning and morphogenesis of the head-trunk boundary
Bruno Cossermelli Vellutini
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
09:55 – 10:10 Mechanical forces generated by fibroblasts regulate morphogenesis of mammary epithelium
Zuzana Koledova
Department of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
10:10 – 10:25 Microtubule organizing centers contain testis-specific γ-TuRC proteins in spermatids of Drosophila melanogaster
Elham Alzyoud
Department of Genetics, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
Doctoral School of Biology, Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged,Szeged, Hungary
10:25 – 10:40 The biological significance of nuclear actin
Péter Borkúti
Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Hungary
10:40 – 10:55 Effect of mir-302B microRNA inhibition on chicken PCG proliferation and apoptosis rate
Nikolett Tokodyné Szabadi
Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Gödöllő, Hungary
10:55 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 12:15 SESSION 8 – Cell stress and Death
Chair:
11:15 – 11:30 Deregulation of mitochondrial activity and redox status in oocytes from aged mouse females: is it maternal or postovulatory ageing to blame?
Anna Ajduk
Reproductive Biology Group, Department of Embryology, Institute of Developmental Biology and Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw , Warsaw, Poland
11:30 – 11:45 Embryonic cells can act as non-professional phagocytes and undertake the clearance of dying cells in mouse blastocysts
Dušan Fabian
Institute of Animal Physiology, Centre of Biosciences, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovak Republic
11:45 – 12:00 Lysosome Related Organelles promote stress and immune defenses in C. elegans
Gábor Hajdú
Semmelweis University, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Budapest, Hungary
12:00 – 12:15 A novel target for autophagy activation in Drosophila neurodegenerative and ageing models
Tibor Kovács
Department of Genetics, Institute of Biology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
12:15 – 12:25 Closing of the meeting
12:00 – Lunchbox meal
Időpont: 2021.09.02-05.
Helyszín: Szeged
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