Discovery of Open Reading Frames in Zika viruses and their impact on neural cell tropism examined in brain organoids. A rewarding collaboration led by Nerea Irigoyen 👩🏻‍🔬🦠🦟🇪🇺 at Cambridge University.

Cambridge "Academic Tourists" from the Andras Lakatos are having a great time at the Oxford Stem Cell Institute Meeting. Thanks to Colin Goding for the invite!

EMBO Astrocyte Workshop - this will be a 'stellar' meeting. Join us!

A postdoctoral Research Associate position is available in the Andras Lakatos in complex human neural organoid-based ALS disease modelling at Cambridge University : jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49564/

Full house at our Departmental Away Day - Clinical Neurosciences Cambridge University

Happy holidays from us!

Interesting paper on the role of KIF5A in axon biology - doi.org/10.1016/j.nbd.… - similar structural and mitochondrial transport findings to those we found in #astrocyte processes in KIF5A deficiency: doi.org/10.1038/s42003… in Communications Biology.

Interested in #oligodendrocyte metabolism and/or #multiplesclerosis? Our paper is now at Biorxiv! We show that oligos express MCT2, the high affinity monocarboxylate transporter, well known for supplying neurons with astrocyte-derived lactate (astro-neuron lactate shuttle)👇

ANOTHER exceptional 3D organoid models session at #SCMND2025? What a treat! Come join us in Edinburgh this March for some incredible science! Submit your abstract and register here 👉👉scmnd.com UK Dementia Research Institute Bhuvaneish T.Selvaraj Andras Lakatos Regenerative Research Fdn/NSCI #iPSC #organoids

It is truly unbelievable - how long can this go on?

This is important: without urgent action clinical academia in the UK is at serious risk of dying out. ukri.org/news/report-ca…

Origin and cell type specificity of mitochondrial DNA mutations in C9ORF72 ALS-FTLD human brain organoids | Science Advances science.org/doi/abs/10.112…

Lab Summer 2025 has officially begun!

The first EMBO #Astrocyte #Meeting was a success. Thanks to our engaging lineup of excellent speakers, brilliant trainees & essential Department of Biology – University of Padova volunteers. Looking forward to the next iteration! Laura Civiero Olga Sin Won-Suk Chung Matthew.Holt

New pre-print from our lab here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…