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Assistant Professor
@ki.se
carlstromlab.com metabolic and epigenetic interplay in glial cells
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New preprint from
@gocastelobranco.bsky.social
lab!! We use MPRA & scCRISPRi/a to interrogate possible functions of GWAS-identified Multiple sclerosis risk SNPs in iPSC-derived oligodendrocytes.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Claudio Cantù
8 days ago
Join 🇸🇪 🌞 The PALS Summer School in TranscriptOMICS 🧬 🧪 To learn about ➡️ Dynamics of immunological tissue architecture in the human gut ⬅️ by ⭐ professor Simon Koplev ⭐ from KTH
@scilifelab.se
@kawresearch.bsky.social
@remeseiro-lab.bsky.social
REGISTER NOW!
www.trippus.net/summerschool...
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🚨🚨🚨Job alert We are looking for postdoc joining our lab. If you are interested in subcellular distribution of proteins using iPSC and animal models in combination with leading genome engineering tools, check this add out!! 🧠🧬🔬🧫💊
www.linkedin.com/posts/karl-c...
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Postdoctoral position (scholarship) in metabolic-epigenetic interplay | Karl Carlström
📣 📣 📣 Job alert!!! Join us at Karolinska Institutet We are looking for a postdoc to the Carlström lab curious to dissect metabolic and epigenetic interplay using iPSCs and animal models coupled with...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/karl-carlstr%C3%B6m-26081735_postdoctoral-position-scholarship-in-metabolic-epigenetic-activity-7442920315816632320-SFie?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAdq8agB5Ey6BU2HYdDxwrhQsiExWmD_RS8
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Karolinska Institutet
16 days ago
KI researchers have created a detailed map showing how genetic activity is controlled in individual cells of the adult human
#brain
and
#spinalcord
. Oligodendroglia retain an epigenetic memory of developmental programs long after these genes are no longer active 🧪
news.ki.se/new-map-reve...
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Latest form GCB lab!! Great work Muk!!🎉🎉🎉
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Karolinska Institutet
16 days ago
A study published in
@nature.com
today presents a new method that makes it possible to generate CAR-T cells inside the body. Several types of
#cancer
were treated in mice without the immune cells needing to be extracted and processed in a laboratory 🧪
#immunotherapy
news.ki.se/immune-cells...
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chrismlangseth.bsky.social
22 days ago
Let me introduce you to KaroSpace, which is a rapid-access framework for interactive exploration of multi-sample spatial omics data. The preprint can be accessed here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Check our latest preprint, Christoffer et al. at our lab developed KaroSpace, with which you can quickly generate a browser to explore your own or published spatial omics data! And here goes my soundtrack to spatial explorations, DJ-Kicks by Erlend Øye
youtu.be/naKrdCozPUg?...
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Amanda Andersson-Rolf
3 months ago
We are hiring! Looking for curious and motivated new colleagues to join my lab at the Karolinska Institute
@ki.se
. If you are interested in studying cell identity and pancreas biology using human organoids, (spatial)omics genome and bioengineering please reach out!
#hiring
#sciencejob
#STEMJobs
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Gonçalo Castelo-Branco
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Congrats
@patrikernfors.bsky.social
!!! Our head of the MolNeuro unit at
@ki.se
, an inspiration to all of us!
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Karolinska Institutet
about 2 months ago
KI researchers have identified the neurogenic progenitor that gives rise to dopaminergic neurons – the primary neurons affected in
#Parkinsons
disease and essential for controlling movement. The study is published in
@natneuro.nature.com
🧪
#neuroscience
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How dopamine producing neurons arise in the developing brain
In a new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Nature Neuroscience, researchers have identified the neurogenic progenitor that give rise to dopaminergic neurons, the primary neurons affected ...
https://news.ki.se/how-dopamine-producing-neurons-arise-in-the-developing-brain
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John Lukens
2 months ago
CRISPR screens in iPSC-derived neurons reveal principles of tau proteostasis:
@cellpress.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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John Lukens
3 months ago
3 papers in Cell
@cellpress.bsky.social
today exploring the mechanistic connection between Epstein-Barr virus and multiple sclerosis
#MultipleSclerosis
cell.com/cell/fulltex...
cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Harald Lund
3 months ago
Microglia checkpoints promote healthy myelin aging Our new paper is out in Nature Neuroscience
@natneuro.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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TGFβ signaling mediates microglial resilience to spatiotemporally restricted myelin degeneration - Nature Neuroscience
Zhu et al. find that aging causes region-specific myelin damage in the spinal cord, which is counteracted by enhanced TGFβ signaling in microglia, revealing a protective mechanism for healthy aging.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-02161-4
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Itai Yanai
3 months ago
With all the excitement about AI giving us answers, we often forget that the real trick is to figure out what is the question.
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Itai Yanai
4 months ago
There’s an art to writing a grant proposal so that your creativity is on full display. Maria Leptin - president of the ERC - talks about it on the new episode of the Night Science Podcast.
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Enric Llorens
4 months ago
First paper from the lab is now online
@natneuro.nature.com
! We mapped injury induced enhancers in the mouse CNS and decoded their sequence architecture. Little 🧵
rdcu.be/eSQi1
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Alex Stark
5 months ago
Major new direction in the lab: hacking human cell biology with pathogen effectors (eORFs) - amazing collaboration with
@miketilapia.bsky.social
lab. Huge congrats to first authors Tomas & He & all co-authors! Check out the pre-print on
@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Leopold Parts
5 months ago
New 🧬✂️ pre-print! We show that paired prime editing can efficiently generate large deletions — even >1 Mb — with high precision and at scale. We use this to perform the first pooled prime deletion screen across the human genome. 🔗
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A short thread (by Juliane Weller)👇
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Generating long deletions across the genome with pooled paired prime editing screens
Engineered deletions are a powerful probe for studying genome architecture, function, and regulation. Yet, the lack of effective methods to create them in large numbers and at multi-kilobase scale has...
https://biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.03.686307v1
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We are hiring!! Interested in applying various CRISPR editing approaches and cell profiling to address functional metabolic and epigenetic interplay in oligodendrocytes?! Apply here 👇
www.linkedin.com/posts/karl-c...
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We are looking for a Research Assistant with an interest in functional metabolic and epigenetic interplay in oligodendrocytes! To study this we apply a wide range of leading-edge technologies… | Kar...
We are looking for a Research Assistant with an interest in functional metabolic and epigenetic interplay in oligodendrocytes! To study this we apply a wide range of leading-edge technologies, inclu...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/karl-carlstr%C3%B6m-26081735_happy-to-share-a-new-preprint-from-gon%C3%A7alo-activity-7399841627466379264-mY2Q?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android&rcm=ACoAAAdq8agB5Ey6BU2HYdDxwrhQsiExWmD_RS8
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Karolinska Institutet
5 months ago
A new study in
@natneuro.nature.com
by
@gocastelobranco.bsky.social
et al explores how oligodendrocytes respond in
#MultipleSclerosis
. The researchers identified distinct and early disease-related states and gene activity patterns that may help explain how
#MS
progresses 🧪
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Oligodendrocytes show early changes in multiple sclerosis
A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Nature Neuroscience, explores how oligodendrocytes, the cells that produce myelin in the brain and spinal cord, respond during the development of m...
https://news.ki.se/oligodendrocytes-show-early-changes-in-multiple-sclerosis
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Gonçalo Castelo-Branco
5 months ago
Our paper, driven by Chao Zheng and Bastien Hervé in the lab
@ki.se
, is now out in
@natneuro.nature.com
! Check it out at:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
with
@pkukanja.bsky.social
,
@deckardw.bsky.social
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Distinct transcriptomic and epigenomic responses of mature oligodendrocytes during disease progression in a mouse model of multiple sclerosis - Nature Neuroscience
Single-cell ATAC/RNA multiomic profiling was used to investigate how oligodendrocyte lineage cells respond across multiple disease stages within a mouse MS model, revealing early activation of immune ...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-02100-3
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New preprint from
@gocastelobranco.bsky.social
lab!! We use MPRA & scCRISPRi/a to interrogate possible functions of GWAS-identified Multiple sclerosis risk SNPs in iPSC-derived oligodendrocytes.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Anja Groth
5 months ago
Chromatin fatigue: DNA repair alters the chromatin environment and introduces heritable variation in gene expression in a larger region around the lesion! Amazing achievement by
@sbantele.bsky.social
and Jiri Lukas published in
@science.org
🙌 Happy we could contribute. See 👇
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Karolinska Institutet
5 months ago
Researchers at KI and
@yale.edu
have created a multidimensional, molecular map of how the mouse
#brain
develops after birth and how it reacts to
#inflammation
. The study is published in
@nature.com
. 🧪
#neuroscience
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Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
5 months ago
Researchers
@ki.se
and Yale University have created a multidimensional, molecular map of how the mouse
#brain
develops after birth and how it reacts to
#inflammation
#research
supported by Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
#MS
#neuroscience
@gocastelobranco.bsky.social
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Scientists map how the brain develops – and how it resolves inflammation
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Yale University have created a multidimensional, molecular map of how the mouse brain develops after birth and how it reacts to inflammation. The study, which ...
https://news.ki.se/scientists-map-how-the-brain-develops-and-how-it-resolves-inflammation
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Latest from the lab in colab with
@rongfan8.bsky.social
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Fruktansvärda fel på regnet
6 months ago
Låter som något äkta gnällisar skulle säga.
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Gioele La Manno
6 months ago
🧠 The Lipid
#Brain
Atlas is out now! If you think
#lipids
are boring and membranes are all the same, prepare to be surprised. Led by
@lucafusarbassini.bsky.social
with Giovanni D'Angelo's lab, we mapped membrane lipids in the mouse brain at high resolution.
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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Yizhou Hu(Eugene)
7 months ago
Our study on neuroblastoma developmental plasticity is the cover story in the latest issue of Dev. Cell
@cp-devcell.bsky.social
.The Chinese-ink Taiji (Yin–Yang) cover to echo cell-state transitions. Huge thanks to the editors, co-authors.
#Neuroblastoma
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Mattia Zaghi
7 months ago
A few weeks ago, I had to discuss about DynaTag, a smart tweak to CUT&Tag that enables single-cell transcription factor mapping with just a buffer change. Opening a number of future avenues. 📰 Via @GenomeWeb :
lnkd.in/djYm_sGg
#epigenetics
#singlecell
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https://lnkd.in/djYm_sGg
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Jeppe D Larsen
7 months ago
Min vän Jovan har startat cykelverkstad i Gubbängens centrum
cykelnomad.com
. Blev en räddad palm som inflyttningspresent. Vi jobbade tillsammans för 10 år sedan och han har jobbat heltid som cykelmekaniker sen dess. Sprid gärna ordet så han kommer igång ordentligt!
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Fyodor Urnov
7 months ago
Of David's countless accomplishments is the important work that Matt Porteus did in his lab on early-stage genome editing with engineered nucleases (pubmed 12730593). He and Matt both speak about this in the documentary "Human Nature." A true titan.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/s...
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David Baltimore, Nobel-Winning Molecular Biologist, Dies at 87
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/science/david-baltimore-dead.html
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John Doench
7 months ago
Doomscrolling pause to chat CRISPR libraries! Preprint describes our new, data-driven approach to combine on-target and off-target predictions much more intelligently for *selecting* guides, which we use to develop our newest Cas9 knockout library, Jacquere. Thread:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Balancing off-target and on-target considerations for optimized Cas9 CRISPR knockout library design
The continued development of high-dimensional CRISPR screen readouts, such as single-cell RNA sequencing and high-content imaging, necessitates compact libraries to enable functional interrogation at ...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.26.672375v1
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Anna Williams
7 months ago
Our new paper on metformin, myelin, mitochondria and metabolism is now out at
rdcu.be/eDbFD
Thanks to Nina and all of the team!
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Metformin alters mitochondria-related metabolism and enhances human oligodendrocyte function
Nature Communications - Metformin is under clinical trial for brain neuroprotection but how it may work is poorly understood. Here, the authors show that metformin helps myelin formation by human...
https://rdcu.be/eDbFD
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Daniel Mucida
7 months ago
A careful, comprehensive and creative characterization of T cell dynamics in response to pathogens, with all credits going to
@rohamparsa.bsky.social
who just opened his lab!
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Roham Parsa
7 months ago
Excited to share our new preprint! We studied how T cells are functionally & clonally shaped across organs over time. With the new TRACK mice, we genetically label recently activated T cells with tdTomato and track their migration across tissues.
#immunology
#science
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7 months ago
Träffade SR:s Mellanösternkorrespondent Cecilia Uddén och pratade om Gaza, opartisk journalistik och sorgen efter hennes kärlek Elisabet Ohlson.
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Cecilia Uddén: ”Som journalist ska du vara opartisk – men objektiv kan ingen vara”
Cecilia Uddén har hamnat i fokus för debatten om journalistik och opartiskhet.
https://www.dn.se/kultur/cecilia-udden-som-journalist-ska-du-vara-opartisk-men-objektiv-kan-ingen-vara/
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Gonçalo Castelo-Branco
7 months ago
Deadline (September 2) approaching! Join us and start your lab at
@ki.se
!
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Johan Jakobsson
7 months ago
New paper from our lab! We found that LINE-1 transposons contribute to early human brain development. Funded by
@asapresearch.parkinsonsroadmap.org
www.cell.com/cell-genomic...
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LINE-1 retrotransposons mediate cis-acting transcriptional control in human pluripotent stem cells and regulate early brain development
Adami et al. demonstrate that evolutionarily young L1s are expressed in human pluripotent stem cells and are dynamically regulated throughout neural differentiation. The study examines the role of L1s...
https://www.cell.com/cell-genomics/fulltext/S2666-979X(25)00235-6
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DN Debatt. ”Därför slutar jag som statsepidemiolog”
Statsepidemiologen Magnus Gisslén berättar i debattartikel att han tappat sitt förtroende för Folkhälsomyndigheten
https://www.dn.se/debatt/darfor-slutar-jag-som-statsepidemiolog/
8 months ago
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oZgun Gokce
8 months ago
I am hiring an halftime administrative assistant for my lab! we are fun dynamic group located in Bonn DZNE. Pls Spread the word. Learn more & apply
karriereamukb.de/jobs/teamass...
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Teamassistenz (m/w/d) Klinik für Alterspsychiatrie und Kognitive Störungen - Karriereamukb | Jobs & Karriere an der Uniklinik Bonn
In der Klinik für Alterspsychiatrie und Kognitive Störungen des Universitätsklinikums Bonn ist zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt folgende Stelle in Teilzeit (19,25 Std. / Woche) zu besetzen. Die Stelle is...
https://karriereamukb.de/jobs/teamassistenz-m-w-d-klinik-fuer-alterspsychiatrie-und-kognitive-stoerungen/
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Amina Manzoor
8 months ago
Tillbaka i tjänst och första texten handlar naturligtvis om RFK jr. Det är svårt att ignorera allt som han gör och förstör. (Premium, men kan läsas om man har en prenumeration på någon Bonnier-titel via Plus allt)
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Kennedys stopp för mRNA-forskning är en present till antivaxxare
Kennedys pengastopp till mRNA-forskning i USA riskerar att hindra medicinska framsteg. Dessutom ger han antivaxxare ännu fler skäl att misstro myndigheter.
https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/kronikorer/amina-manzoor/kennedys-pengastopp-till-mrna-forskning-kan-hindra-medicinska-framsteg/
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Gonçalo Castelo-Branco
8 months ago
Join us at the FENS Single-Cell & Spatial Omics Winter School with:
@sarabiz86.bsky.social
@rongfan8.bsky.social
@gokcegroup.bsky.social
@gioelelamanno.bsky.social
@sj-marzi.bsky.social
@jplopez-atalaya.bsky.social
Ana Falcão Florian Rosenberger Gabriel Baró Bosiljka Tasic Barbara Treutlein
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Itai Yanai
8 months ago
The creative process in science has a set of thinking tools that we could do a better job teaching. Here are the 12 articles that Martin and I wrote about them, including "It takes two to think", "A hypothesis is a liability" and "The two languages of science".
night-science.org/home/learn/r...
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Robert Hänsel-Hertsch
8 months ago
🧪Move over CUT&Tag, there’s a new
#TranscriptionFactor
mapping method in town. Our newly developed DynaTag is faster, cleaner, more sensitive than
#ChIPseq
,
#CUT&RUN
and
#CUT&Tag
. 🔗 Our
@natcomms.nature.com
paper:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧵Let’s break down what makes DynaTag so powerful (1/7)
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Sternberg Lab
8 months ago
1/16 New pre-print from the Sternberg Lab! We uncover how temperate phages can use RNA-guided transcription factors to remodel the flagellar composition of their bacterial host and enhance their fitness. Find the preprint and full story here:
tinyurl.com/mshwjd77
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Skalman
8 months ago
Herregud vad uselt chefredaktören på DN svarar. Det är så pinsamt, så skamligt. Återigen: ingen av alla dessa medlöpare och självpåtagna censorer som bidragit till att folkmordet har fått fortgå ohejdat ska någonsin få glömma det.
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Gonçalo Castelo-Branco
9 months ago
12th Dev Brains:
@junyuecao.bsky.social
@alainchedotal.bsky.social
@cecilecharrier.bsky.social
@trayon.bsky.social
Isabel Espinosa-Medina Beatriz Rico Michael Ziller Dwight Bergles
news.ki.se/calendar/dev...
@hjerling-leffler.bsky.social
@ulrikakmarklund.bsky.social
@flallemend.bsky.social
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9 months ago
@carlstrom.bsky.social
Clemens Ries, and Ting Sun rocking at
#GLIA2025
! And the launch of the Carlström lab!
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Camp Lab
9 months ago
Neuron programming! Pro-neural TFs + 480 morphogen conditions + scRNA-seq --> Diverse iN subtypes of forebrain, midbrain, hindbrain, spinal cord, and PNS.
@hsiuchuanlin.bsky.social
@jasperjanssens.bsky.social
and Treutlein Lab!
@science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#NGN2
#ASCL1
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