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Kenneth T. Norris Prof of Psychiatry @Stanford ; Uytengsu Director of @BrOrganogenesis ; Physician-Scientist; Seeking to understand human brain assembly & disease

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Today, I’m thrilled have our lab’s work featured on the cover of @Nature In this article, we have developed a therapeutic approach for a severe condition called Timothy syndrome. This has been a long journey. It started with making hiPS cell-derived neurons in 2D cultures 15
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Glad to share our latest work out in @Nature today We show that human cortical #organoids transplanted into the somatosensory cortex of newborn rats develop mature cell types and integrate into sensory circuits and can influence reward-seeking behavior
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Our work on human cortical development is in @cell today. Effort to understand the logic of lineage progression & map #autism mutations Collab work with @WJGreenleaf Led by👏: Alex @atrev_bio & Fabian ( @EpigenomeI ) & Jimena ( @jimena_andersen ) & Laksshman
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Delighted to share the latest paper in Cell @CellPressNews today— a comprehensive overview of human brain organogenesis in vivo, ex vivo & in vitro, including work using #assembloids , #organoids & disease models. Effort led by the amazing @kevinwkelley !
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There are now hundreds of genes associated with autism & neurodevelopmental disorders but what key processes in brain development they each disrupt remains unknown. In an article in @Nature today, we start tackling this question by combining forebrain #assembloids with CRISPR
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Self-organizing systems have been one of the most exciting recent advances in stem cell research However, many names & classifications are used making it challenging to convey the science We now got together as a field to provide a nomenclature framework Out in @Nature today👇1/9
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Thrilled to share new work from my lab @Stanford in @NatureBiotech today on generating functional cortico-striatal #assembloids , striatal #organoids & using them to model disease. Work led by the amazing @myym_yuki with help from @Minyin_Li @fikribirey @omerevah @TheteMayuri .
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How do we go about generating neural cell types in vitro from human pluripotent stem cells? Generally, we leverage relevant morphogen pathways and iteratively modulate them by trial and error to generate a cell population of interest. This is tedious and we yet have to learn
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Today we are sharing our most complex #assembloid to date: a 4-part model of the human ascending neural somatosensory pathway generated by functionally integrating stem cell-derived cerebral cortical, thalamic, spinal and sensory #organoids . Check out the @biorxivpreprint and
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Our new collaborative work on intrinsic maturation in cortical #organoids kept for almost 2 years is out in @NatureNeuro . The switch in receptor subunits is one of the interesting findings. We mention limitations also in the @ScienceMagazine coverage below
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Today we report in @CellCellPress the most advanced #assembloid so far to build the human corticomotor pathway from stem cell-derived parts. This circuit self-assembles & cortical stimulation triggers muscle responses. Led by the amazing @jimena_andersen
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Hundreds of genes have been associated with autism & neurodev disorders But how do these genes impact specific stages in human development? In a new preprint, @XianglingM took a bold approach & developed CRISPR screens in #assembloids to map 425 genes on interneuron dev stages 👇
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We've received many inquiries lately, and it took us some time to plan. However, a new edition of the highly popular hands-on @BrOrganogenesis course on neural #organoids & #assembloids is now scheduled for April 2024 at @Stanford ! We expect hundreds of applications for just
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Teaching & implementing methods is as important as developing them Glad to announce another international hands-on course on human models of neural development in our @Stanford @BrOrganogenesis Come learn how to make & probe #organoids & #assembloids Deadline Nov 1 Please RT
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Our work in the latest issue of Cell @CellPressNews today
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Out now! A single-cell atlas of gene expression and chromatin accessibility of the human developing cortex during mid-gestation identifies prioritized mutations for Autism Spectrum Disorder #neuroscience #developmentalbiology @PascaStanford @Stanford
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There has been important progress in transplanting human stem cell-derived neurons in animals to advance maturation and to construct circuits in vivo. In this perspective coming out today in Cell @CellCellPress I highlight the applications in neuroscience of the current and
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Generating neural #organoids in suspension can be relatively straightforward. But scaling production is challenged by undesired fusion. In a new @biorxivpreprint Genta & @myym_yuki identify a cheap polymer to add that allows 1 person to grow >2400 organoids and run a drug screen
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Glad to share our latest collaborative work with @WJGreenleaf on single cell chromatin and gene expression ( #singleome & #multiome ) dynamics in the developing human cerebral cortex. Work led by @atrev_bio @EpigenomeI @jimena_andersen & Laksshman Sundaram.
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Honored to receive the 2024 @ISSCR Momentum award for our work developing stem cell-based models of neurodevelopmental disorders! This would not have been possible without the dedication of both current and past members of the lab 🙏
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@Sergiu_P_Pasca
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Terribly saddened by the loss of a close friend and mentor—the remarkable Lubert Stryer. In med school in Romania, we had just one copy of his story-like textbook that made biochemistry fascinating and addictive. He was always amused to hear that we were fighting over that one
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Check out our latest @biorxivpreprint Collaborative work with the @GeschwindLab to explore shared and distinct molecular signatures in cortical #organoids from 70 hiPS cell lines representing 8 different neurodevelopmental disorders, idiopathic autism spectrum disorder patients
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The newest 3D brain #assembloid to build from parts & probe human cortico-striatal interactions, and to study disease is out in @NatureBiotech . Check this short summary of the article prepared by our very own @myym_yuki who bravely led this effort in lab!
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Here is a graphic summary of our new paper in @Science . We map #chromatin dynamics in neurons & glia up to 600 day-long forebrain #organoids . We find an intrinsic program of maturation in vitro including a 'wave' of chromatin changes in corticogenesis & map disease risk over time
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@Sergiu_P_Pasca
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Deeply honored to received the endowed Keneth T. Norris Jr. Professorship in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at @Stanford University! Grateful for the incredible trainees & lab alumni and their dedication to understanding development and disorders of the human brain 🙏
@StanfordBioX
Stanford Bio-X
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Congratulations, @Sergiu_P_Pasca ! 🎉 Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member and Clark Center building resident faculty member Sergiu Pașca has been named the Kenneth T. Norris, Jr. Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences!
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Today we report in @NatureBiotech a new device inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami that can continuously & non-invasively record electrical signals from 3D neural #organoids and #assembloids for long periods of time. Close collaborative work with @BianxiaoC under the
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A few years ago we modeled the descending 3-part cortico-spinal-muscle pathway in functional #assembloids derived from stem cells We now report the construction from 4 parts of the human ascending (spino-thalamic) sensory pathway in #somatosensory #assembloids This pathway
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Delighted to receive the 2021 Altman Award in Developmental Neuroscience. Really honored as Drs Altman & Bayer’s work has been so inspiring & still a key part of my NeuroDev class @Stanford . Looking fw to speaking in July @ China-Korea-Japan Neurosci conf
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How do changes in oxygen affect human brain development? In a new @NatureMedicine paper, we built a model of hypoxic injury in brain region-specific organoids to investigate cell vulnerability in cortex. Work led by @NeoPascaLab collab with the @WillseyLab
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Very insightful overview by @GrayCampLab and @TreutleinLab of our recent @Nature article led by the the incredible Omer Revah ( @omerevah ) Felicity Gore & Kevin Kelley ( @kevinwkelley ) News & Views 👉 Open access article 👉
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Thrilled to share that our Big Idea on Brain Organogenesis got funded by @StanfordBrain ! Excited to lead this university-wide effort with @KarlDeisseroth . Grateful for our incredible team @zhenanbao @BianxiaoC @michaelzlin @HankGreelyLSJU @heilshornlab
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Congratulations to the terrific @themasap @omerevah @Aaron_Gordon1 , the @Stanford team & collaborators on today’s @NatureMedicine paper. With cortical #organoids & 2D neurons, we develop a cellular model of #22q11del -a common risk for psychiatric disorders
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Lots of applications still coming in for our tuition-free practical course on neural #organoids & #assembloids here at @Stanford . We decided to extend the deadline until November 16 to make sure everybody is sending the required materials. Looking forward to meeting an
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New lab paper @NatureNeuro showing derivation of oligodendrocytes in forebrain #organoids together with neurons and astrocytes. Work by the amazing Rebecca Marton and @myym_yuki @Sloan_Lab @QingyunTristan @omerevah @HuguenardLab , & dedicated to Ben Barres:
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New Resource in the latest issue! #Organoids that resemble the #cerebral cortex or the #hindbrain /spinal cord are assembled with #human skeletal #muscle spheroids to generate 3D cortico-motor assembloids @PascaStanford @Stanford
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Our circuit assembloid article is on the cover today. Congratulations Yuki @myym_yuki & team!
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Honored to receive the 2021 Basic Research Award @SIRSGlobal #schizophrenia . Thank you for the incredible intro Prof. Dame @TilWykes ! So fortunate to have amazing trainees & wonderful mentors and colleagues at @Stanford @StanfordBrain @StanfordBioX @Stanford_ChEMH & beyond #22q11
@SIRSGlobal
Schizophrenia International Research Society
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Sergiu Pasca ( @PascaStanford ) named the @SIRSGlobal 2021 Basic Research Awardee. See the full announcement on our website at . Congratulations Dr. Pasca! #schizophrenia #schizophreniaresearch
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Check our new article this week in @NatureProtocols on engineering human neural circuits using #assembloids . You’ll find detailed experimental approaches & tips on making assembloids and implementing advanced functional assays. Spearheaded by @myym_yuki 👏
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Our article in @CellStemCell by @fikribirey is on the cover of the new issue today. Congratulations to the whole team! #assembloids #migration #interneurons #disease #calcium
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Check out this enthusiastic #2023 cohort of international trainees in our Stanford @BrOrganogenesis hands-on course on #organoids & #assembloids ! Effort led by the amazing @RebeccaJLevyMD @FreddyMValencia & Merve Avar! @StanfordBrain @StanfordBioX
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I am incredibly honored to receive the 2021 Judson Daland Prize from the American Philosophical Society-the oldest learned society in the US founded in 1743 by B. Franklin. So grateful for my incredible lab & their dedication to understanding brain disease
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Glad to share our work uncovering the diverse landscape of the developing human spinal cord & a surprisingly early diversification of motor neurons Led by the amazing @jimena_andersen &Nick Thom With @kaltschmidt_lab @NeoPascaLab @EpigenomeI @WJGreenleaf
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Our latest work is now on @biorxivpreprint . Here, we use forebrain #assembloids from patients with Timothy syndrome carrying a CACNA1C point mutation to investigate the molecular basis of interneuron migration. Work spearheaded by @fikribirey in the lab!
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Long-term minimally-invasive recordings from human neural #organoids & #assembloids have been challenging. Inspired by the art of #kirigami and as part of a close collaboration with @BianxiaoC ’s lab in the @BrOrganogenesis , Xiao Yang and Csaba Forro developed flexible
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In our @Nature paper published last week, we identified a potential therapeutic for Timothy Syndrome (TS) using human neural #organoids , #assembloids and neurons from TS patients transplanted into rats. Here’s a more detailed description of what we found 👇
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Our Nature Medicine article made the Cover of the May issue. Congratulations to the entire team!
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Our latest paper came in @nature recently—an effort to uncover divergence in cortical development between human & chimp using #organoids derived from fused cells. Led by Rachel A 👏 Collab w/ @FraserLab Key contrib by @fikribirey w/ @SeJinYoon3 @myym_yuki 👉
@organoidscience
Organoid News
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Drs. Sergiu Pasca ( @PascaStanford ), Hunter Fraser ( @FraserLab ) & colleagues study species divergence in cerebral cortical development by differentiating cells into neural #organoids . 🧠 @nature
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The time has come to announce the speakers for another spectacular @CSHL meeting on human brain development and 3D models #organoids #assembloids that I have the great honor to organize with Guo-Li Ming @UPenn_SongMing Check out the list and mark your calendar
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If you're interested in learning about brain assembloids, the ways to make them, and how they may help understand cell-cell interactions in the brain, circuit formation and disease, check this perspective in Science @sciencemagazine #assembloids #organoids
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My heartfelt gratitude for the committee that selected our work for the 2022 IBRO-Kemali International Prize @ibroSecretariat . This recognition goes to all the students, postdocs, residents & scientists in the lab🙏 Onwards towards understanding neural dev & treating 🧠 disorders
@IBROorg
IBRO - International Brain Research Organization
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The IBRO-Kemali Prize Committee is pleased to announce that Dr. Sergiu P. Pasca, @PascaStanford , has been awarded the 2022 IBRO-Dargut and Milena Kemali International Prize! He will receive the award and give a special lecture at #FENS2022
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Check out out latest article in @CellStemCell in which we use human forebrain #assembloids to uncover the mechanisms of cortical interneuron migration in the CACNA1C-related #Timothy -syndrome. @StanfordMed @StanfordBrain @StanfordBioX @BrOrganogenesis 👉
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Today we welcome in our @BrOrganogenesis a select group of 27 trainees from all over the world— from India to New Zealand, from Japan to Argentina, from Israel to the UK or the USA— for an immersive week of experiments, lectures & discussions on neural #organoids & #assembloids
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Our @Stanford Human Brain Organogenesis course has started! Enthusiastic group of international students already doing experiments with brain #organoids in our @StanfordBrain @Stanford_ChEMH building. Very proud of amazing instructors @fikribirey @jimena_andersen @myym_yuki et al
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Today I want to acknowledge 3 spectacular scientists in lab who have taken the lead in organizing a very successful international @BrOrganogenesis course! Very proud of you & the entire lab for all the effort preparing for weeks to openly share our #organoids #assembloids methods
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Proud of current lab members and Pasca Lab alumni gathering at #SfN23 in Washington DC! So great to see the great science coming out of their own researcher groups. Soon several more labs to open…all doing creative human neurobiology @Sloan_Lab lab @MakinsonLab lab
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Very glad to share our new @sciencemagazine article on mapping chromatin accessibility in human forebrain #organoids . A great collaboration with the @WJGreenleaf lab @Stanford . Credit goes to the incredible @atrev_bio @jimena_andersen & Nasa!
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Updated on the hands-on @BrOrganogenesis course on #organoids & #assembloids : We received hundreds of applications— at least 10x more applicants that we can take. Please have patience as a decision is being made. Our goal is to announce the 2023 cohort around 12/01. Thank you 🙏
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Check out Sabina Kanton’s detailed poster and the accompanying article on #assembloids that was just published in @Dev_journal Covers various types of assembloids one can build across tissues, applications & the tools to probe & manipulate them in vitro
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and the cortical neurons (green) projecting in cortico-striatal #assembloids
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Exciting to see #assembloids as a 2021 Method to Watch @naturemethods . More on this preparation & subtypes in the @ScienceMagazine piece here: from initial forebrain assembloids to capture migration to multi-regional assembloids to study connections:
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Nature Methods
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Method to Watch by Nina Vogt: Assembloids are emerging models for studying human brain development, complex neural circuits or interactions between different tissues.
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Honored to receive the 2020 C.J. Herrick Award from AAA @AnatomyOrg . Looking forward to giving this lecture at the Experimental Biology @expbio meeting, which will now take place next year. Grateful for the wonderfully talented trainees & staff in my lab @Stanford and my mentors.
@AnatomyOrg
American Association for Anatomy
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See @pascastanford 's research into 3D brain modeling here: #expbio #anatomy20
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An exciting paper from the lab in @naturemethods today showing high reliability in generating brain region specific #organoids using our initial cortical spheroid method plus details on a feeder-free, xeno-free version:
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Superb summary and thoughful perspective on our recent @Nature article by @SilviaM_Velasco especially in outlining the need for multi-level approaches, including #organoids #assembloids & in vivo transplantation, to develop therapeutics for severe brain disorders
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Human neurons are more complex morphologically and functionally after transplantation
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What a beautiful experiment
@PennMedBench
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In a landmark study, researchers led by @ErikaHolzbaur @UPennPhysiology discovered & filmed the molecular details of how a cell, just before it divides in two, shuffles mitochondria to distribute them evenly to its two daughter cells
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Excited for the lab to join the @czbiohub Investigator program today!
@czbiohub
Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network
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We're excited to welcome our new cohort of Investigators! 86 awardees from @Stanford , @UCSF , and @UCBerkeley from a broad range of disciplines will undertake creative and innovative research to help solve the biggest challenges in biomedicine.
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Truly honored to become a CZI Ben Barres Investigator today. Ben has been an amazing mentor and friend and incredibly supportive as we’ve been developing our 3D cellular models. He would have been so excited to see this initiative! Thank you @cziscience
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Our efforts to understand human neuropsychiatric disorders featured in this short video. So proud of the incredible members of the lab (many in the video), amazing lab alumni & our collaborators! #stemcells #assembloids #organoids @StanfordBrain @StanfordBioX @BrOrganogenesis
@StanfordMed
Stanford Medicine
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A few years ago, Sergiu Pasca, MD, coaxed skin cells to form parts of the brain, dubbing the models assembloids. Now they’re being put to work to expand knowledge about the brain and brain disorders. @Sergiu_P_Pasca #Innovation #Neuroscience #Science
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Short summary of a recent lab preprint by the brilliant Ji-Il Kim & Yuki Miura @myym_yuki with key contributions from the talented Min-Yin Li @Minyin_Li building functional connections in #assembloids of the forebrain & diencephalon to study CACNA1G channelopathies
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Congratulations to Rebecca Marton in the lab who recently defended her PhD thesis @Stanford with (literally) a standing ovation! Very proud! Terrific scientist and this is just the beginning of many discoveries to come. Congrats!! #oligodendrocytes #organoids #assembloids
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Very excited to announce that we will organize the first hands-on workshop on #brain #organoids @Stanford . Support from @StanfordBrain . If interested in learning how to generate brain-region specific organoids, assemble and probe them, apply here:
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Check out the remarkable 2024 international class of our Stanford @BrOrganogenesis course on neural #assembloids & #organoids ! Taking a selfie right after the now classic ceremony of pinning their country of origin on a world map. What an amazing group! My deepest
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Broad transcriptomic dysregulation occurs across the cerebral cortex in ASD
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Join us to perform curiosity-driven neuroscience research as part of an ambitious effort at @Stanford & @StanfordBioX ! Several staff positions for experienced & less experienced scientists interested in brain #assembloids & #organoids ! See links here👇
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Sergiu P. Pasca
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Deadline approaching for the @BrOrganogenesis course on human neural #organoids #assembloids @StanfordBrain Please share with those who would benefit from hands-on experience here on the @Stanford campus The course is free! 👉
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@Sergiu_P_Pasca
Sergiu P. Pasca
2 years
Another edition of the highly popular @Stanford hands-on course on neural #organoids & #assembloids for human development & disease modeling is in the making! Stay tuned for more details… @BrOrganogenesis @StanfordBrain @StanfordBioX
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@Sergiu_P_Pasca
Sergiu P. Pasca
3 years
Collection of papers on brain #assembloids and #organoids
@CellPressNews
Cell Press
3 years
The reviews and research in this free Cell Press Selection offer a snapshot of the latest advances in #organoids and #assembloids in #neuroscience .
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@Sergiu_P_Pasca
Sergiu P. Pasca
3 years
I hoped we could have an in person, 3rd CSHL 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝟑𝐃 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧. Guo-li Ming & I decided to move it to 2022. No doubt it will be best so far! See speakers👇 #organoids #assembloids #disease
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@Sergiu_P_Pasca
Sergiu P. Pasca
1 year
Congratulations to the winners of the 2nd poster session @CSHL conference on brain development and 3D modeling who received a special prize highlighting consensus work of the field 👏👏👏 #cshlbrain
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@Sergiu_P_Pasca
Sergiu P. Pasca
3 years
Our @CellStemCell piece on the use of VoxHunt to study neural #organoids is out today. Effort led by @myym_yuki in the lab!
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Sergiu P. Pasca
1 year
Congratulations to the winners of the poster session #1 @CSHL conference on brain development and 3D modeling who received a special prize highlighting consensus work of the field 👏👏👏 #cshlbrain
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@Sergiu_P_Pasca
Sergiu P. Pasca
4 years
Here it is. The international 2020 class in our @StanfordBrain Organogenesis course about to continue benchwork after a morning of lectures/discussions by talented @jimena_andersen @fikribirey @RachelAgoglia @myym_yuki @atrev_bio #organoids #singlecellRNAseq #assays #2020SHBOW
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Sergiu P. Pasca
2 years
Our overview out in @Nature this week on the recent breakthrough advances to grow mouse embryos in vitro to stages not reached before #embryoids #stemcells With the great @neal_amin 👇
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Sergiu P. Pasca
3 years
Check out the human medium spiny neurons:
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Sergiu P. Pasca
3 years
Delighted to see our work on #assembloids featured in this article in @Nature
@StanfordBioX
Stanford Bio-X
3 years
Stanford Bio-X faculty member and Clark Center resident Sergiu Pasca ( @PascaStanford )'s development of 3D brain assembloids is featured in Nature! Check out "The rise of the assembloid":
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@Sergiu_P_Pasca
Sergiu P. Pasca
6 months
This was a very special event. Humbled by the recognition and grateful by the warm welcoming and the ceremony!
@DanAndreiMuraru
Andrei Muraru
6 months
I first met @Sergiu_P_Pasca ( @Stanford ) in 2022, when RO President Klaus Iohannis met w/ a group of Romanians from Silicon Valley. It was my honor to host last week the decoration ceremony with the National Order "For Merit" in the rank of Officer, awarded by our 🇷🇴President.
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@Sergiu_P_Pasca
Sergiu P. Pasca
7 months
Applications for the @Stanford hands-on course on human neural #organoids and #assembloids in the @BrOrganogenesis are pouring in. Less than two weeks before the deadline. For those still working on their application, please spend some time succinctly but clearly articulating
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@Sergiu_P_Pasca
Sergiu P. Pasca
2 years
Warm congratulations to @jimena_andersen and @fikribirey who are starting as tenure-track faculty at @EmoryUniversity after making a series of exciting discoveries in the lab! Wishing you the best in this new adventure! #proud #labalumni #assembloids #organoids #development
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@Sergiu_P_Pasca
Sergiu P. Pasca
4 years
Our detailed protocols for generating brain region-specific #organoids & forebrain #assembloids from pluripotent stem cells deposited in this easy to use online platform. @Sloan_Lab @NeoPascaLab @jimena_andersen @fikribirey @SeJinYoon3
@protocolsIO
protocols.io
4 years
1️⃣ Generation and assembly of human brain region-specific organoids @StanfordMed | @StanfordLibs | @cziscience | @PascaStanford | @NeoPascaLab | @fikribirey
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@Sergiu_P_Pasca
Sergiu P. Pasca
3 years
Our latest paper on #chromatin in #brain development & chromatinopathies is out in @TrendsCellBio this week. Effort led by the tireless @FreddyMValencia Open access here:
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