Charlie Sheehan
@cjsheehan.bsky.social
Scientist interested in the RNA biology underlying brain development and synaptic plasticity
Postdoc @ NYU | Ph.D. @ Duke University Biochemistry | UVa Alum | he/him/his 🏳️🌈
Postdoc @ NYU | Ph.D. @ Duke University Biochemistry | UVa Alum | he/him/his 🏳️🌈
Congratulations Jing and the Silver Lab! Excited to see this work out and delighted to have contributed to this work during my time in the lab.
Thrilled to share our latest study out in @natureportfolio.nature.com led by the fantastically talented Jing Liu. Our study provides insight into a long standing question in biology: What molecular features make us uniquely human and how do these function? www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A human-specific enhancer fine-tunes radial glia potency and corticogenesis - Nature
HARE5, a human accelerated region enhancer, modulates cortical development by influencing neural progenitor cell behaviour, leading to an enlarged neocortex with increased functional independence betw...
www.nature.com
May 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Congratulations Jing and the Silver Lab! Excited to see this work out and delighted to have contributed to this work during my time in the lab.