So happy to see this work out! Amphioxus has a brain region very similar in profile and cell type composition to the vertebrate telencephalon! This could be key to understand the evolution of the vertebrate brain moving forward Thank you very much to everybody involved!👏😀🥳

Excited to share this work together with Anna Hakes, @_rob_kr_ , Esteban, Takumi and Paul!

Understanding of regenerative capacity gets a leg up A Research Highlight showcasing new work on Xenopus limb regeneration from Can Aztekin, Tom Hiscock & colleagues journals.biologists.com/dev/article/14…

Congratulations Neha! Our paper, a wonderful collaboration with Sadaf Farooqi and her group, is out in PLOS Biology.

Congratulations Neha Agrawal :D

Using Drosophila as a slimmed down model for human obesity: our collaborative study with Farooqi Lab and our former postdoc Neha Agrawal (now PI at The University of Edinburgh) Check out the paper PLOS Biology: bit.ly/3c3Te7Q #fruitflies #obesity #Drosophila

Thank you to all the amazing people I worked with!

🗺️ Have you tried Gurdon Institute's Great BioQuest? It's a fun, interactive trail around #Cambridge giving you insights into some of the world-changing #science that has taken place right here: bit.ly/3lv6gQG Amy Foreman Andrea Brand

Huge Congratulations to Dr @JocelynTang for passing her PhD viva last week! 🎉Jocelyn is an incredibly talented scientist and we can't wait to see where her career takes her next! Check out Jocelyn's work in our latest NanoDam paper: cell.com/developmental-…

So happy to see my first publication finally out!!! nature.com/articles/s4146… In collaboration with The Boroviak Lab, we compiled scRNA-seq from 6 different mammalian species to infer metabolic trends during early embryogenesis:

Happy to share a review that I wrote with my PhD supervisor on phosphatase control of DNA replication initiation. Covid gave me the opportunity to create animations of my research. I'm delighted that one of these movies could be adapted for this review. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Our new paper on temporal patterning is out in Development ! We have identified a novel switching factor in the temporal cascade - in relation to its role, we have named this gene Chronophage, after the time-eating Corpus Clock Corpus Christi journals.biologists.com/dev/article/14…

Yayy Oriol Llorà Batlle

Busily packing up the flies!

Many Brand Lab 🏆 Winners at the Gurdon Institute Retreat! Congratulations to Amy Foreman for winning the Public Engagement Prize, Leia Judge and Oriol Llorà Batlle as joint winners of the Best Poster Prize (as well as john russell Rawlins Lab )! Great science, people and dancing!

👻 Happy Halloween from the Brand Lab! 🎃 Our spooky adult fly brain was imaged by our spook-tacular lab manager Catherine Davidson #Halloween2022

Our new NanoDam protocol is out in STAR Protocols : a step-by-step guide to performing your very own NanoDam experiment, adaptable for a variety of model systems. Thank you to Jocelyn Tang @_rob_kr_ Oriol Llorà Batlle and Anna Hakes and Paul! Read it here: star-protocols.cell.com/protocols/2116

Belated congratulations to Rawlins Lab and Kyungtae_Lim! Targeted DamID in lung organoids done by our great postdoc Alex Donovan!

My PhD work is published today in Molecular Cell!! 🥳 A short thread 🧵 (1/12) cell.com/molecular-cell… #phosphatase #DNAreplication #cellcycle #PP2A #originfiring

Why do quiescent neural stem cells look so much like neurons? 🤔 We showed that quiescent neural stem cells transiently adopt a neuronal identity to coordinate reactivation across the CNS! See our latest preprint here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…