Developmental Biology: from genes to functional organism – news from the 3rd Meeting of the Visegrád Group Society for Developmental Biology

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The third meeting of the Visegrád Group Society for Developmental Biology (V4SDB) was held on September 8th-10th, 2023 in Warsaw, Poland. It was a continuation of previous meetings, the first organized in the Czech Republic in 2018 and the second in Hungary in 2021. Similarly to the previous meetings, the organizers created a friendly platform for networking and science sharing. The conference gathered an excellent group of 160 researchers working on various animal models, who during lecture and poster sessions discussed a broad range of subjects, including early embryonic development, organogenesis, genetic and epigenetic control of developmental processes, stem cells and regeneration, cellular dynamics and migration in developmental biology, and in vitro models in development and disease. Additionally, two satellite events were organized: the Young Developmental Biologists’ Forum, which gave young researchers an opportunity to share and promote their work and to participate in hands-on courses, and an outreach initiative “Developmental Biology for Everyone”, which presented different aspects of developmental biology to a broad audience.