I am thrilled to present our new study out in nature where we measure aging at organ-level resolution in living people with large-scale plasma proteomics + ML! From Tony Wyss-Coray lab, co-led with former grad student Jarod Rutledge 1/12

It took 4+ years to build this 3D map of the developing human head, the most complex part of our body sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Tissue clearing #Lightsheet #VirtualReality #3D models & More! Congrats to Raphael Blain, E. Shotar G. Couly YGN et al. video summary 🔊

We had an awesome time at the 10th annual Johnston lab Xmas and Holiday party! I am so grateful to work with this awesome group of people, who brought along their supportive partners!

Humans are one of the few mammals that have both red and green cones. A stochastic gene regulatory mechanism was the main model in the field. Sarah Hadyniak, PhD in my lab changed the view, finding that retinoic acid controls their spatiotemporal patterning. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

Excited to attend my third ARVO and to give my first talk in Seattle #ARVO2024 ! If you are interesed in our latest work on promoting RGC maintenance in retinal organoids, join me at 4pm on May 5th!!

Qinwen Queen of Paris! 👑🥇 Qinwen Zheng becomes the first Chinese player to ever win a singles gold medal at the Olympic Tennis Event! #Paris2024 | #Olympics | #tennis

Congrats Dr. McNerney!! 🎉🎉

Check out our paper! We identify a population of retinal progenitors that are maintained late in human retinal development, and give rise to both first- and last-born cell types in the retina, condensing 100 days of retinal development into a small region at the retinal margin!

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“My message to the young people is this: if I can get so close to the stars, you can too.” —Zhijian “James” Chen, 2024 #LaskerAward winner for his discovery of cGAS, an enzyme that senses self and foreign DNA #Lasker2024 #LaskerLaureate UT Southwestern Medical Center

The fly connectome map completed!! So beautiful!

If you're at #ISER2024, come out to my talk on Thursday Oct 24, where I'll describe our "hourglass hypothesis" for extrinsic control of retinal developmental timing. Session: Early retinal development and patterning Time: 8:48 Work from Christina McNerney Jo Hagen Jingliang Simon Zhang

This is great! NIAID News have launched a collection of public domain illustrations (currently 550 individual icons) bioart.niaid.nih.gov

A forest of neurons inside your head, happy #FluorescenceFriday 🔬🧪🧠

Heading out of town for 2024 #cshlbrain at CSHL Meetings to dive into the fascinating world of brain organoids! Happy to chat about my research on protecting human retinal ganglion cells, and to explore how to remake connections between the eye and the brain in vitro! 👁️🤝🧠

Congrats Wenbin!!

Congrats Darwin!

GAGA zinc finger transcription factor searches chromatin by 1D–3D facilitated diffusion nature.com/articles/s4159…

Blocking apoptosis promotes survival and alters developmental dynamics of human retinal ganglion cells in retinal organoids biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_devbio

New #preprint‼️Excited to share my PhD work, in which we characterize waves of cell death during human retinal development, and show how blocking apoptosis promotes RGC long-term survival and alters their developmental dynamics in #organoids. Check this out: