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@weissmanlab.bsky.social
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Jonathan Weissman Lab @weissmanlab.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Fourth: Transcriptional boundaries ≠ lineage boundaries. At the midbrain-hindbrain boundary, clades often span both regions despite distinct transcriptional identities. Regional identities emerge from later specification events, not early lineage compartmentalization
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Jonathan Weissman Lab @weissmanlab.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Our trees confirm they arise from lateral plate, intermediate, AND paraxial mesoderm, yet retain clear transcriptional memories of where they came from
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Jonathan Weissman Lab @weissmanlab.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Second: Germ layer fate restriction begins before gastrulation and extends beyond it. Detectable germ layer bias in the epiblast first appears ~E4. By contrast, in the growing tailbud bipotent axial progenitors continue to specify additional mesoderm and ectoderm through E9.5
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Jonathan Weissman Lab @weissmanlab.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
First: Despite the non-deterministic nature of mammalian development, lineage architecture is highly reproducible across embryos. Progenitor numbers, clonal outputs, and the timing of shared ancestry between cell type pairs all show minimal variation between replicates
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Jonathan Weissman Lab @weissmanlab.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
What did we find? We dissected fate restriction across the developing notochord, heart, neural crest, and tailbud. From these case studies, a few high-level principles about mammalian development emerged
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Jonathan Weissman Lab @weissmanlab.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
We engineered mESCs with the PEtracer system, which continuously installs heritable marks at >100 editable sites throughout development. Using these cells, we generated high-grade chimeric embryos (up to 99%) and reconstructed lineage trees resolving ~75% of cell divisions
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Jonathan Weissman Lab @weissmanlab.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Using PEtracer (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) we reconstructed lineage trees for 16 mouse embryos sampled at half-day intervals from E7.5 to E10.0. We profiled ~50% of cells from each embryo with scRNA-seq, capturing late and rare fate restriction events that would be missed with subsampling
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Jonathan Weissman Lab @weissmanlab.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Excited to share a new preprint from the lab led by @lukekoblan.bsky.social and William Colgan in which we describe our efforts to define a quantitative cell fate map of mouse embryogenesis! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Jonathan Weissman Lab @weissmanlab.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Perturb-Multi generates rich, multimodal data that can generate fundamentally new insights about the impact of genetic perturbations on tissue function. Check it out!
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Jonathan Weissman Lab @weissmanlab.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
We used lentiviral delivery of sgRNAs to create genetic mosaic organs, separately knocking out hundreds of genes in the liver of a single mouse.
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Jonathan Weissman Lab @weissmanlab.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Perturb-Multi is a platform for pooled genetic screens in intact mammalian tissue with spatial (MERFISH and multiplexed immunofluorescence) and scRNA-seq-based phenotyping.
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