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Aging lab @Stanford. Our interests include mechanisms of aging, brain aging and rejuvenation, neural stem cell aging, genetics of lifespan and suspended animation in killifish

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Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wow. I really appreciate this review! (So detailed and well-written)
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BrunetLab @brunetlab.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Excited to share our paper on identification of secreted proteins during aging! Using proximity labeling and mass spectrometry, we identify secreted proteins that change during aging in C. elegans! Congrats to Jason Miklas and all collaborators! www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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An in vivo resource of age-regulated C. elegans intestinal secretory-pathway proteins highlights secreted enzymes associated with lifespan regulation
Miklas et al. characterize age-related C. elegans intestinal secretory-pathway proteins using proximity labeling tools and in vivo proteomics. They identify a conserved secreted phosphatase, ACP7, that extends lifespan in a secretion- and phosphatase-dependent manner. This resource highlights the role of extracellular enzymes in regulating lifespan.
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Ashley Webb, PhD @aewebb.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The abstract deadline is coming up for the FASEB on Epigenetics and Aging! Oct 19-22 in Malahide, Ireland. Submit now to be considered for a short talk! Amazing lineup including Yang Shi @denadubal.bsky.social @brunetlab.bsky.social @bbparis1984.bsky.social and more! events.faseb.org/event/Chroma...
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Home - Chromatin and Epigenetics in Aging and Disease
Discover how epigenetics and transcription shape aging and disease, with new tools, therapies, and collaborations at this leading conference.
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Antebi Lab @antebilab.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
1/8 🚨 Out now in @NatureComms 🚨 A vitamin mitigates symptoms of a rare genetic disease. Verheij syndrome is caused by mutations in the mRNA splicing factor PUF60. Vitamin B12 restores normal development in our disease model, the worm C. elegans. rdcu.be/fyIgM
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Vitamin B12 alleviates spliceosomopathy via phospholipid remodeling
Nature Communications - The authors use a Caenorhabditis elegans model of Verheij syndrome, caused by mutations in the splicing factor PUF60, and show that Vitamin B12 can rescue the phenotype.
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BrunetLab @brunetlab.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Excited about our new manuscript @elife.bsky.social: Engulfment by brain macrophages in a short-lived vertebrate doi.org/10.7554/eLif...! Huge congratulations to Rahul Nagvekar and the team!! ✨⭐🍾🐟 We generated a genetic model to identify engulfing macrophages in the #killifish aging brain!
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Engulfment by brain macrophages in a short-lived vertebrate
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Julia Belk @juliabelk.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Gaining therapeutic access to the human brain is one of the biggest unsolved problems in biomedical science. Today @nature.com, we uncover a massive influx of immune cells into the human brain during aging, revealing that the brain is more accessible than previously thought. 1/
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Somatic mutations reveal the ontogeny of microglia in human aging - Nature
Nature - Somatic mutations reveal the ontogeny of microglia in human aging
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Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Talked about "How We Age" on Kara Miller's "It Turns Out" podcast - links here - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
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How to extend life - and where the science stands
Podcast Episode · It Turns Out · July 24 · 39m
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BrunetLab @brunetlab.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Our new paper on lipids in neural stem cell aging!! Congratulations to Xiaoai Zhao for her fantastic work! ✨🥂 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Lipidomic profiling reveals age-dependent changes in plasma membrane lipids that affect neural stem cell aging
Plasma membrane lipids are remodeled with age in neural stem cells, and rejuvenating membrane lipids boosts old cell function.
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Benoit Bruneau @benoitbruneau.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
4D Nucleome special issue of Science, featuring our paper "Dose-dependent sensitivity of human three-dimensional chromatin to a heart disease–linked transcription factor", led by Zoe Grant in my lab and Zhuzhen Kuang in Katie Pollard's lab @gladstoneinst.bsky.social www.science.org/toc/science/...
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Contents | Science 393, 6809
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Syd Sattler @sydsat.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
What if an embryo made immune cells before it finished building the tissue they usually come from? In our new preprint, we show that annual killifish embryos specify neutrophils before germ layers are fully resolved. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Huge thanks to my PI, @ohnolog.bsky.social ! 🧵
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Early immune cell development precedes gastrulation in annual killifish
During embryogenesis, cell types arise in a predictable order because developmental regulators act sequentially. But how evolutionary changes in morphogenesis reshape the signaling environments that a...
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Éthyliszt, Esq. @ethyliszt.esq · 09/06/2026
"Then, in 2021, the Princeton University geneticist Coleen Murphy found that Caenorhabditis elegans worms could learn to avoid a pathogenic bacterium by eating, or even just swimming around in, pureed worms who had learned the hard way." www.quantamagazine.org/are-memories...
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Are Memories Transferable — or Edible? | Quanta Magazine
In the 1960s, worm-training experiments and their strange implications captivated the nation. Columnist Claire L. Evans follows the neuroscientists who attempted to recapture the magic.
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Jesse Engreitz @jengreitz.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Planning a Perturb-seq experiment? Building virtual cells? First step to good models is good data. How many cells to profile? How deeply to sequence? What statistical power? Check out PerturbPlan — new tool from Ziang Niu in Katsevich Lab www.perturbplan.com www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Dario Riccardo Valenzano @dvalenzano.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Thrilled to see this out today in PLOS Biology. With postdocs Siqi Liu and Flávio Costa, we ask why the gut microbiome loses its balance with age. It's an Unsolved Mystery piece: a framework, not a finalized account, with predictions we lay out for the field to test. 🧵
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Jesse Engreitz @jengreitz.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Why do guinea pigs have so many natural bypass arteries — and mice and humans almost none? We develop in vivo Perturb-seq for endothelial cells to ask how protective collateral arteries are built. Preprint with by Irene Fan, Ronghao Zhou, and Kristy Red-Horse: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
A Perturb-seq screen guided by species divergence uncovers pathways for collateral artery formation
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BrunetLab @brunetlab.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Interested in aging and rejuvenation? We have a new Research Assistant position to understand aging at the cellular level!! Come join our team!!! 😎 careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/life-sc...
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Life Science Research Professional 1 in School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States
Stanford University is seeking a Life Science Research Professional 1 to study the mechanisms of aging and rejuvenation, particularly in a variety of....
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Alex Schier @schierlab.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Very happy to see this out. 👏 @yinanwan.bsky.social Bogdan Bintu and team. Whole-embryo spatial transcriptomics at subcellular resolution from gastrulation to organogenesis | free link Science www.science.org/eprint/5MHTM...
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Whole-embryo spatial transcriptomics at subcellular resolution from gastrulation to organogenesis
Gene expression patterns underlie development, but their systematic detection in whole embryos has remained elusive. We introduce a whole-embryo imaging platform using multiplexed error-robust fluores...
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Michael Ward @michael-e-ward.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Excited to share a pre-print from a collaboration between my lab at NIH, Len Petrucelli's lab at University of Miami, and Shyamal Mosalaganti's lab at University of Michigan.
CryoET and colored segmentation of TMEM106B fibrils protruding from within a broken lysosome in post-mortem FTLD-GRN brain.
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Datta Lab @dattalab.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Have you ever wondered why mice do what they do when they are free to do whatever they want? Check out our latest (and this slightly delayed thread about our recent paper, led by Caleb Weinreb and friends...) www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
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Spontaneous behavior is a succession of self-directed tasks
Weinreb et al. reveal a hierarchy of timescales in mouse behavior, including low-level syllables and high-level behavioral states. States and syllables are encoded in different brain areas. Prefrontal...
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BrunetLab @brunetlab.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
So very sorry for your loss, Rebecca.
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Nature Aging @nataging.nature.com · 05/03/2026
Online now! A new study shows transplanting gut microbiota from estropausal female mice to young adult female mice improves ovarian hormone profiles, follicle metrics, and fertility-related outcomes. @bbparis1984.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s435...
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Estropausal gut microbiota transplant improves measures of ovarian function in adult mice - Nature Aging
To investigate the link between the gut microbiome and ovarian health, here the authors transplant gut microbiota from estropausal female mice to young adult female mice. Microbial transplantation imp...
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Claire Bedbrook @clairebedbrook.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Aging may feel gradual… but what if it’s not? In our recent paper, we tracked fish continuously from puberty until death. This gave us a unique view of how aging unfolds across the adult lifespan. 🧵
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Karl Deisseroth @deisseroth.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Great work from Claire, Ravi, and the whole team– the initial lifelong continuous screen of behaving vertebrates provided a wealth of ideas on progression/staging of brain function across lifespan. Behavior is unmatched as a noninvasive quantitative readout of brain function (and, one that matters).
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Ravi Nath @ravi-nath.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Lifelong behavioral screen reveals an architecture of vertebrate aging | Science Was a wonderful collaboration with @clairebedbrook.bsky.social, Libby Zhang, Scott Linderman, @brunetlab.bsky.social & @deisseroth.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Lifelong behavioral screen reveals an architecture of vertebrate aging
Mapping behavior of individual vertebrate animals across lifespan could provide an unprecedented view into the lifelong process of aging. We created a platform for high-resolution continuous behaviora...
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Zebrafish Rock! 🎃 @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Youthful antics predict lifespan? Using machine learning & continuous recordings of #killifish behavior from adolescence until death, @brunetlab.bsky.social & @deisseroth.bsky.social find early-life behavior predicted future lifespan! Now published @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪 1/2
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Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
🧪 New from incoming LSI faculty Claire Bedbrook & Ravi Nath, from @brunetlab.bsky.social's lab: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪
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Lifelong behavioral screen reveals an architecture of vertebrate aging
Mapping behavior of individual vertebrate animals across lifespan could provide an unprecedented view into the lifelong process of aging. We created a platform for high-resolution continuous behaviora...
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stanfordbrain.bsky.social @stanfordbrain.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
On today's podcast, we talk with neuroscientists Claire Bedbrook and Ravi Nath about their new study, which found that an animal's lifespan can be predicted surprisingly early by observing its behavior. @brunetlab.bsky.social @deisseroth.bsky.social 🔗 neuroscience.stanford.edu/news/why-do-...
Ravi Nath and Claire Bedbrook stand in an aisle of shelves filled with fish tanks. Photo by Andrew Brodhead.
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BrunetLab @brunetlab.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Multi-organ transcriptomic aging atlas in killifish, with both males and females! 🐟🐟🐟 Huge congratulations to Emma, Jing, Tony and the entire team!! ✨⭐ @emkcosta.bsky.social @jingxunchen.bsky.social Wyss-Coray lab! www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Multi-tissue transcriptomic aging atlas reveals predictive aging biomarkers in the killifish - Nature Aging
Characterizing molecular aging features is crucial for understanding systemic and local factors contributing to the aging process. Here Costa, Chen et al. performed RNA sequencing on 13 tissues across...
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Nature Aging @nataging.nature.com · 05/03/2026
Online now! Costa, Chen et al. performed RNA-seq on 13 tissues, six ages in male and female African turquoise killifish. The Killifish Aging Atlas provides a comprehensive resource for aging studies. @emkcosta.bsky.social @jingxunchen.bsky.social @brunetlab.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s435...
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Multi-tissue transcriptomic aging atlas reveals predictive aging biomarkers in the killifish - Nature Aging
Characterizing molecular aging features is crucial for understanding systemic and local factors contributing to the aging process. Here Costa, Chen et al. performed RNA sequencing on 13 tissues across...
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BrunetLab @brunetlab.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Congratulations to the entire team and a huge thank you to all collaborators! Thank you so much for the support of the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience at Stanford for this project! 🙏
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BrunetLab @brunetlab.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
We are excited by this study because it provides the potential for 'immunotherapies' for the old brain. Of course, a lot remains to be done, including identifying additional efficient 'immunotherapies' that can rejuvenate old brain function.
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BrunetLab @brunetlab.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
More broadly, this IL-10 variant has beneficial effects on cognitive behavior (done with Saul Villeda's lab) in old mice. This suggests that quenching inflammation in old brains can boost cognitive function in old individuals
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BrunetLab @brunetlab.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Importantly, this IL-10 variant decreases inflammation in both neurogenic niches in the adult brain – the subventricular zone and the dentate gyrus. The IL-10 variant has a small beneficial effect on the production of new neurons from the subventricular zone neurogenic niche in old individuals.
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BrunetLab @brunetlab.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
We found that this engineered IL-10 variant reduces inflammation in microglia (and does not trigger strong T cell activation) in old brains.
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BrunetLab @brunetlab.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
We chose IL-10 because we noticed that the IL-10 pathway is going down with age, notably in microglia. We infused this engineered IL-10 variant that is more targeted toward anti-inflammation into old brains and examined its impact using a variety of assays.
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BrunetLab @brunetlab.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
So could age-dependent inflammation be quenched to counter brain aging? For this, we used an engineered cytokine (IL-10) which has anti-inflammation properties and was generated by Bobby Saxton in the Garcia lab.
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BrunetLab @brunetlab.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
We found that infusing this checkpoint inhibitor into the brain triggers massive inflammation of microglia. This suggests that reversing T cell exhaustion actually augments inflammation in the aged brain (which is already more inflamed than the young brain), which is likely detrimental.
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BrunetLab @brunetlab.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
We wondered what would happen if we infused a checkpoint inhibitor into the aged brain to reverse this T cell exhaustion. We used a potent checkpoint inhibitor (RIPR-PD1) engineered by Ricardo Fernandes in the Garcia lab, and we examined its effect on a key brain region – the subventricular zone.
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BrunetLab @brunetlab.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
We and others had previously observed that cytotoxic T cells strikingly accumulate in the old brain. Characterizing T cells from aged brains, we noticed that some of them have hallmarks of memory T cells whereas others have hallmarks of exhausted T cells, such as the checkpoint protein PD1.
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BrunetLab @brunetlab.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Brain aging is associated with cognitive decline and a dramatic increase in neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease. Could 'immunotherapies' – strategies based on the immune system – counter brain aging?
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BrunetLab @brunetlab.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Excited to share our new study using engineered immune proteins to quench inflammation in aged brains!! Congratulations to Paloma Navarro and the entire team! Fantastic collaboration with Chris Garcia's lab, Tony Wyss-Coray's lab, and Saul Villeda's lab! www.cell.com/immunity/ful...
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Targeting immune cells in the aged brain reveals that engineered cytokine IL-10 enhances neurogenesis and improves cognition
Immune cells populate the old brain, but whether they can be specifically targeted to improve brain function in older individuals remains unclear. Navarro Negredo et al. dissect how aging impacts brai...
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BrunetLab @brunetlab.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
We have posted a Research Assistant (LSRP1) position to work on aging and 'rejuvenation' using mouse models!! 🐭 careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/life-sc... Apply and join our awesome lab!! (please share) 😎
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BrunetLab @brunetlab.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Interested in the mechanisms of aging and 'rejuvenation'? Our lab at Stanford has a Research Assistant/Lab manager position open!! Apply and join our awesome team! 😎 (please share) careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/life-sc...
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Life Science Research Professional 1 in School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States
The Brunet lab in the Department of Genetics at Stanford University (https://web.stanford.edu/group/brunet/) is seeking an independent and motivated.....
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The Dissenter @thedissenteryt.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
New episode (1211), with Dr. Coleen Murphy (@ctmurphy1.bsky.social). We talk about her book, How We Age: The Science of Longevity. #Biology #Science YouTube: youtu.be/Fy22JhtHhdU Podcast: bit.ly/4a1fCh8
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#1211 Coleen Murphy - How We Age: The Science of Longevity
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BrunetLab @brunetlab.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
We are hiring!! Lab Assistant II position to work with the killifish! 🐟🐟🐟 This is an amazing model to study aging and 'suspended animation' careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/lab-ass... Come and join our fantastic team at Stanford!! 🤩 Please share!
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BrunetLab @brunetlab.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Join us for an awesome Keystone Symposia in Banff, Canada in March 2026! Fantastic line up of speakers at the juncture between immunity and aging!! www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...
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EMBL Events @events.embl.org · 14/01/2026
📣 Deadline extension for #EMBOBrainEpi! Good news for anyone who did not submit an abstract for the EMBO Workshop 'Brain (epi)genome': the abstract deadline is now 26 January 👉 s.embl.org/brg26-01-bl Join us to explore how genome and epigenome shape brain cell diversity, function, and disease 🧠
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Jonathan Pritchard @jkpritch.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
I'm just delighted to announce our new preprint on genome-scale perturb-seq in CD4+ T cells. We learned both general lessons about the power of perturb-seq, and specific lessons about T cell biology. Led by amazing postdocs Emma Dann and Ronghui Zhu, with my wonderful collaborator Alex Marson.
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Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
We have had a lot of requests for the protocol for single-nucleus RNA-seq of adult C. elegans neurons that our lab developed - I hope that you find this helpful! 🧪 #Celegans www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Protocol for single-nucleus RNA sequencing of adult C. elegans neurons
Single-nucleus sequencing, specifically, remains the gold standard for characterizing difficult-to-dissociate cell types, such as neurons in complex b…
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Catherine Dulac @dulaclab.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
New paper alert!!...🤩 Led by @blogeman.bsky.social, we identify how cell type-specific hormonal responses in the hypothalamus tunes parenting behavior in males and females 🐭🧠🍼. Highlights in thread 👇 1/6 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Cell Type-Specific Hormonal Signaling Configures Hypothalamic Circuits for Parenting
Parenting behavior emerges from hormonally sensitive circuits, but how distinct circuit components are affected by, and contribute to, sex and state dependent changes in infant caregiving remains uncl...
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Sergiu P. Pasca @sergiuppasca.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Remarkable energy at the inaugural @cshlnews.bsky.social conference on Assembloids and complex cell–cell interactions across tissues and systems A wonderful series of talks so far highlighting advances & discoveries being made with these self-organizing systems and a few common themes are emerging
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