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Madeline Lancaster

@lancasterlab.bsky.social
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Developmental neurobiologist using cerebral #organoids to study brain size and evolution. Opinions my own.

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Help spread the word about the fully funded 4-yr PhD places available at the Max Planck School of Cognition. Pursue a passion for research & advance the understanding of cognition, mentored by a network of world renowned scientists. @maxplanck.de @mps-cognition.bsky.social More info & how to apply:
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Application; application procedure; FAQs; handbook
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Madeline Lancaster @lancasterlab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Cool new preprint from the McDole lab on morphogenesis of the antero-ventral mammalian embryo. Lots of nice microscopy and morphometric analysis in this! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Choreographed morphogenetic events underlie early foregut development in the mouse embryo
Between embryonic days 7.5 and 8.5, the mouse embryo undergoes a dramatic rearrangement of its entire anterior, a process known as ventral folding: the near-simultaneous morphogenesis of the cardiac c...
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Keri Martinowich @martinowk.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
With expansion of several stem cell based initiatives @lieberinstitute.bsky.social - we are hiring! We are looking for a Staff Scientist with expertise in hiPSCs and iPSC-derived neuronal models to join our Stem Cell Core, directed by @tsawada1.bsky.social recruiting.paylocity.com/recruiting/j...
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Stefan Schoenfelder @stefanschoenfelder.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Very grateful to Martin Pera for his excellent News & views piece on our recent paper with @lancasterlab.bsky.social in @natbiotech.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Restoring pluripotency to pluripotent stem cells - Nature Biotechnology
Human pluripotent cell lines that cannot generate cortical organoids are rescued by an epigenetic reboot.
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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.ac.uk · 07/08/2026
Magdalena Sutcliffe, @lancasterlab.bsky.social & @stefanschoenfelder.bsky.social demonstrate how epigenetic ‘memory’ shapes stem cell potential, but a chemical reset can restore differentiation ability. Read more: shorturl.at/PZ4tV #LMBResearch @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social @babrahaminst.bsky.social🧪
Human pluripotent stem cells favour either anterior or posterior formation, but this can be mediated by chromatin restoration (CHR) treatment.Fluorescent micrograph of an organoid with intricate folds and patterns in blue and purple
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Madeline Lancaster @lancasterlab.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Super proud and excited to share this new paper from our lab, a huge collaborative effort from an amazing team! If you do any differentiation of PSCs, this will be of interest 🤓👇 And if you’d like to try out this PSC standardisation, reach out and we’ll happily share the protocol!
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Alfonso Martinez Arias @amartinezarias.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Tribute to Gail Martin www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Discoverer of #EScells whose curiosity went beyond cells, genes / embryos. Good for younger generations to learn @ these giants. NB. Unfathomable why she was overlooked for a Nobel Prize, though this says more @ prizes than @ her.
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Vicki Metzis @vmetzis.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
How does an embryo generate the right cells in the right place? Delighted to share our latest findings on how neural crest cells acquire vagal or trunk identities Spoiler alert: The timing & combination of CDXs preconfigures cell identity & distinct HOX states www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Temporally distinct CDX programmes preconfigure vagal and trunk neural crest
Neural crest cells (NCCs) are progenitor cells vital in establishing the head, heart, gut and peripheral nervous system of vertebrate embryos. Disruptions to NCC development underlie neurocristopathie...
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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
You also don't have to do an editor's job of deciding if a paper "fits" or is "impactful enough" for their journal, because you're a scientist and not a marketing agent for the publisher.
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Madeline Lancaster @lancasterlab.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Cool work from the McDole lab just published. Primordial germ cells have to endure some pretty tight spaces on their journey! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Primordial germ cells experience increasing physical confinement and DNA damage during migration in the mouse embryo
Mammalian PGCs face a challenging journey to the gonads, and experience DNA damage as they navigate through confined spaces.
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Madeline Lancaster @lancasterlab.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Thank you for this important paper! Using biobanks of thousands of people to check what effects archaic coding variants might have. Finding certain variants in healthy modern humans helps clarify which might have real consequences to human evolution, and which do not.
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Madeline Lancaster @lancasterlab.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
This is a great article and you can read it free here! A fresh perspective to understanding language with an interdisciplinary and integrative approach.
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Madeline Lancaster @lancasterlab.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Just got @philipcball.bsky.social’s book, can’t wait to dig in!
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Madeline Lancaster @lancasterlab.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Cool paper and cool thread! Makes me wonder, what’s going on in a whale or dolphin brain where there’s essentially no layer 4 🤔
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Madeline Lancaster @lancasterlab.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Super excited for the start of #EESorgan 2025! One of my favorite parts of coming to EMBL is the walk to the ATC through the forest. Can’t wait for 4 days of awesome organoid science!
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Rob Klose @robklose.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
We are recuiting two new Associate Professors here in Oxford Biochemistry. Come join us! Reach out to me if you have any questions. Please repost! tinyurl.com/mr3m7bd3
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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
New paper alert! Rare DNA changes in the SETBP1 gene are linked to speech problems & diverse syndromes affecting brain development. Work led by ace postdoc @maggiemkwong.bsky.social uncovered impact of different gene variants, coupling clinical/speech evaluation to molecular & cellular readouts.🧬🗣️🔬🧪
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SETBP1 variants outside the degron disrupt DNA-binding, transcription and neuronal differentiation capacity to cause a heterogeneous neurodevelopmental disorder - Nature Communications
Different types of SETBP1 variants cause variable developmental syndromes with only partial clinical and functional overlaps. Here, the authors report that SETBP1 variants outside the degron region impair DNA-binding, transcription, and neuronal differentiation capacity and morphologies.
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Julius Brennecke @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
The Vienna BioCenter PhD Program application deadline is approaching: October 10! Join one of Europe’s premier life science campuses, home to cutting-edge research across all areas of biology. Apply and start your scientific journey in Vienna! training.vbc.ac.at/phd-program/ #PhD #LifeSciences
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Empowering Curious Researchers at the Vienna BioCenter PhD Program Are you a curious and motivated student looking to launch a successful scientific career? Look no further than the Vienna BioCenter P...
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Denis Jabaudon @djabaudon.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Interested in the mechanisms of neurogenesis, and how they might converge/differ across species, regions, and life epochs? Check this out, wonderful location and great science! Please RT neuro-unige.ch/news/csf-mee...
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Alessandro Gozzi @gozziale.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
🚨 Excited to share the latest preprint form the lab ➡️https://tinyurl.com/32d3be9f Here we tackle a long-standing chicken-or-egg 🐣🥚question in #autism and developmental neuroscience ➡️ Is excitation–inhibition (E:I) imbalance a "cause" or a "consequence" of #autism? Check out what we found! 🧵1/n
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 01/09/2025
Nine former CDC directors, from Bill Foege onward, speak out about the incalculable harm that RFK, Jr. is doing to public health in the US and around the world. Gift link.
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Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
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Madeline Lancaster @lancasterlab.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Amazing work! The Silver lab is on a roll!
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Madeline Lancaster @lancasterlab.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
This new preprint looks pretty interesting. Human neurons take up to 4 decades to fully mature!
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Stefan Schoenfelder @stefanschoenfelder.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Delighted & excited to share our latest preprint on non-canonical enhancers in human pluripotent stem cells, the result of a fantastic and fun collaboration with @guenesdoganlab.bsky.social‬: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 below
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Non-canonical enhancers control gene expression and cell fate in human pluripotent stem cells
Enhancers are key gene regulatory elements that ensure the precise spatiotemporal execution of developmental gene expression programmes. However recent findings indicate that approaches to identify en...
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Madeline Lancaster @lancasterlab.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
This is amazing. Really interesting science made accessible to non experts. I recommend tuning in if you can, even for a little while
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Jen MacKinnon @jenmackinnon.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Hi friends - In the face of unprecedented cuts to the basic research science funding, climate scientists are staging an 100-hour live stream of why science matters. There will be many talks on all sorts of things (I'm Saturday at 12:30 PT). Please share widely! wcstreamathon.netlify.app. 🌊🧪
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The Weather & Climate Livestream
Join us starting May 28th, as meteorologists and climate scientists from across the US share their research and answer your questions.
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Denis Jabaudon @djabaudon.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Still openings, check it out!
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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
New Faraday Fellowships for international applicants moving to the UK Up to £4 million per researcher over 5-10 years Fast-track option for mid-career researchers looking to relocate to the UK
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Madeline Lancaster @lancasterlab.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
This is so cool! It’s beautiful to see exactly the kind of elegant genetic locus swapping experiments I’ve been hoping to see in the field 🤩 Nice work Debby and team!
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Madeline Lancaster @lancasterlab.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Check out this impressive work from the Jabaudon lab exploring an age old question: how does the forebrain grow more than the rest of the brain?
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Madeline Lancaster @lancasterlab.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
So many exciting papers and preprints in the past few weeks. This one is quite the tour de force!
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Madeline Lancaster @lancasterlab.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Exciting work from the Albert lab on unique signatures of human basal radial glia. And look at those beautiful organoids with their basal progenitors! 🤩
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Madeline Lancaster @lancasterlab.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Interesting new work from the McDole lab on the extreme stress primordial germ cells have to endure on their journey to the gonads during embryonic development. It’s wild that a new generation is even possible after all that! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Madeline Lancaster @lancasterlab.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
In case you missed it, check out our recent preprint on developmental timing and how slower means bigger, axons that is! Led by the extraordinary @felinewlindhout.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Calcium dynamics tune developmental tempo to generate evolutionarily divergent axon tract lengths
The considerably slow pace of human brain development correlates with an evolutionary increase in brain size, cell numbers, and expansion of neuronal structures, with axon tracts undergoing an even gr...
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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
A couple of weeks left to apply to join Development's *Pathway to Independence* programme Support & mentoring for post-docs on the academic job market Deadline: January 31 journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...
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Development PI Programme | Development | The Company of Biologists
Development PI Programme | Development | The Company of Biologists Development's Pathway to Independence programme Development is excited to announce our second call for our Pathway to I...
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Madeline Lancaster @lancasterlab.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
It’s been an exciting holiday season for the Lancaster Lab, with not 1, not 2, but 3 new preprints to share! Check ‘em out: doi.org/10.1101/2024... doi.org/10.1101/2024... doi.org/10.1101/2024... Happy holidays and best wishes for 2025 from our lab to yours! 🎄🎉
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Mouse brain organoids model in vivo neurodevelopment and function and capture differences to human
In the last decade since their emergence, brain organoids have offered an increasingly popular and powerful model for the study of early development and disease in humans. These 3D stem cell-derived m...
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Sergiu P. Pasca @sergiuppasca.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Last preparations for what will be an amazing CSHL conference on human #brain development and modeling with #organoids #assembloids and #transplantation Keynotes: Carla Shatz & Chris Walsh @djabaudon.bsky.social @debbysilver.bsky.social @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social @graycamplab.bsky.social
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Madeline Lancaster @lancasterlab.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
If you’re working with neural organoids, join our community to discuss methods, technical issues, and other organoid topics: groups.google.com/forum/#!foru...
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Redirecting to Google Groups
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Madeline Lancaster @lancasterlab.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Hello world! Looking forward to some constructive discourse on this platform!
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