We are excited to host Platt Lab from Georgia Tech as part of our Scientific Excellence Through Diversity Seminar (SEDS) series. Join us Thursday, April 14th at 4pm in Boyer 159 for Dr. Platt’s seminar, which will be followed by a reception in the Boyer Hall Patio.

Happy to share our most recent paper (1/3): FGFR3 is expressed by human primordial germ cells and is repressed after meiotic initiation to form primordial oocytes cell.com/stem-cell-repo…

Excited to share our recent review on the role of Xist in maintaining X inactivation! sciencedirect.com/science/articl… By @Elsie_youlater and Amy Pandya-Jones

It’s finally out! Many thanks to my colleagues cheng (Jack)song and my mentor Andy McMahon at USC for making this happen. #organoid #kidney #screen

Congratulations to Yolanda Markaki and all other award winners for the UCLA 2022 Boyer/Parvin Postdoctoral Award. Tune in for her seminar on "How to silence a chromosome" July 20th at 12PM PT. 🧬

I’m happy to share our new paper with Momoko Watanabe Lab published today cell.com/stem-cell-repo… which examines how differences in the state of human stem cell pluripotency can lead to favorable or unfavorable outcomes when making brain organoids.

Join us for this incredible Gordon Research Conferences on #StemCells and #Cancer in beautiful #Tuscany organized with Cedric Blanpain and Plath Lab!!🔬🧐🇮🇹

Congratulations to Plath lab member Justin Langerman who was awarded the UCLA 2023 Boyer/Parvin Postdoctoral Award. 🎉

I'm delighted to have been mentioned in the celebratory article commemorating the 30th anniversary of NSMB #Xist_granules #phase_separation Tartaglia Lab Mitch Guttman Plath Lab NatureStructMolBiol nature.com/articles/s4159…

Excited to share our latest work: L126 fine-tunes enzymatic activity of histone H3, a discovery made possible by viewing the nucleosome as an enzyme. We have a gain-of-function mutant – it’s hard to enhance an activity if it doesn’t already exist! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…