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The United Japanese Researchers around the World (UJA) has awarded the 2026 Research Paper Award to Nanami Satoh. Nanami’s work has shown how position ad cell fate are coupled during mammalian gastrulation. You can read the original publication at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38579720/

The Spanish Society for Developmental Biology (SEBD) has awarded the José Luis Gómez-Skarmeta (JLGS) Award 2026 to Marta Shahbazi, in recognition of her contributions to the study of early human development. The award will be presented at the SEBD 2026 congress, taking place in El Rompido, Huelva, from 28–30 October 2026. You can find more information at https://sebd.es/news-of-the-society/?lang=en#1749541748000-2857b33b-f875

Marta has been selected as a new member of the EMBO Young Investigator Programme, which provides financial support, networking opportunities, and mentoring to young group leaders in the life sciences. Read more about it here

Marta Shahbazi and Vincent Pasque review our current knowledge of early human embryo development and the stem cell-based embryo models that have been developed to investigate it. Read the whole review here

How do pluripotent cells enter the germline at the right time and place? We have discovered that contact with extracellular matrix proteins inhibits embryonic cells from becoming germ cells.

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Gastrulation is a crucial developmental event that entails simultaneous changes in cell fate, tissue shape and cell numbers. We developed a three-dimensional culture of embryonic stem cells to understand how these events are coordinated.

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