Keystone Symposium on Stem Cell Models in Embryology 2026
The Keystone Symposium on Stem Cell Models in Embryology, 2026, was organised by Jun Wu (UT Southwestern), Jianping Fu (University of Michigan) and Miki Ebisuya (TU Dresden) and held at Asilomar Conference Grounds in California (US). The meeting discussed recent advances made in establishing stem-cell-based embryo models, what fundamental insights into developmental processes have been gleaned from them, as well as how they are beginning to be applied more widely. This prelist contains preprints by presenters at the talk and poster sessions at the conference, which our Reviews Editor in attendance spotted. Please do reach out to preLights@biologists.com if you notice any that we’ve missed.
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Cell-intrinsic compliance mechanism enables release of tensile stress to prevent tissue rupture
Ruoheng Li
'Preprints by preLighters': Cell loss disrupts mechanical homeostasis to drive retinal pigment epithelium ageing-like phenotype in vitro
Reinier Prosee, Teodora Piskova
Electrophysiological correlates of conscious experiences during sleep: Lucid dreams, sleep paralysis, out-of-body experiences, and false awakenings
uMontreal Neuro preLighters et al.
Cooperation between cortical and cytoplasmic forces shapes planar 4-cell stage embryos
Corentin Mollier, Shivani Dharmadhikari
A drought stress-induced MYB transcription factor regulates pavement cell shape in leaves of European aspen (Populus tremula)
Jeny Jose
Cross Sectional and Longitudinal Imaging Reveals Spatiotemporal Divergence in Morphogenesis and Cell Lineage Specification between in-vivo and in-vitro Mouse Embryo during Pre- and Peri-implantation
Heather Pollington
Resilience to cardiac aging in Greenland shark Somniosus microcephalus
Theodora Stougiannou
DNA Specimen Preservation using DESS and DNA Extraction in Museum Collections: A Case Study Report
Daniel Fernando Reyes Enríquez, Marcus Oliveira
PPARδ activation in microglia drives a transcriptional response that primes phagocytic function while countering inflammatory activation
Isabel Paine
Cannibalism as a mechanism to offset reproductive costs in three-spined sticklebacks
Tina Nguyen
The lipidomic architecture of the mouse brain
CRM UoE Journal Club et al.