Clem Bernard
@clembrnrd.bsky.social
Neurobiologist fascinated by brain development | University of Exeter | she/her | #WomeninSTEM
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📣 We're hiring a postdoc to join our growing team @exeter.ac.uk!
Love developmental neurobiology, RNA regulation & cortical circuits? This might be for you 🧑🔬
Apply here 👉 tinyurl.com/2d659uj7
Please share!
Love developmental neurobiology, RNA regulation & cortical circuits? This might be for you 🧑🔬
Apply here 👉 tinyurl.com/2d659uj7
Please share!
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The deadline is nearing by, time to aign up if you are interested!
Interested in the mechanisms of neurogenesis, and how they might converge/differ across species, regions, and life epochs? Check this out, wonderful location and great science! Please RT
neuro-unige.ch/news/csf-mee...
neuro-unige.ch/news/csf-mee...
November 12, 2025 at 10:06 AM
The deadline is nearing by, time to aign up if you are interested!
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Lots of exciting PhD projects available through @swbiodtp.bsky.social
If you are interested in our project using stem cells, CRISPR and genomics, please get in touch. Informal inquiries encouraged
Project:
www.swbio.ac.uk/files/2025/1...
If you are interested in our project using stem cells, CRISPR and genomics, please get in touch. Informal inquiries encouraged
Project:
www.swbio.ac.uk/files/2025/1...
November 6, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Lots of exciting PhD projects available through @swbiodtp.bsky.social
If you are interested in our project using stem cells, CRISPR and genomics, please get in touch. Informal inquiries encouraged
Project:
www.swbio.ac.uk/files/2025/1...
If you are interested in our project using stem cells, CRISPR and genomics, please get in touch. Informal inquiries encouraged
Project:
www.swbio.ac.uk/files/2025/1...
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Multiple BBSRC funded PhD projects available via SWBio
with Paul Chadderton looking at cerebellum bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo...
with Denize Atan, Zaf Bashir Marc Goodfellow & Mike Ashby
bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo...
Please get in touch if you are interested in either project.
with Paul Chadderton looking at cerebellum bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo...
with Denize Atan, Zaf Bashir Marc Goodfellow & Mike Ashby
bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo...
Please get in touch if you are interested in either project.
November 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Multiple BBSRC funded PhD projects available via SWBio
with Paul Chadderton looking at cerebellum bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo...
with Denize Atan, Zaf Bashir Marc Goodfellow & Mike Ashby
bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo...
Please get in touch if you are interested in either project.
with Paul Chadderton looking at cerebellum bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo...
with Denize Atan, Zaf Bashir Marc Goodfellow & Mike Ashby
bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo...
Please get in touch if you are interested in either project.
📣 We're hiring a postdoc to join our growing team @exeter.ac.uk!
Love developmental neurobiology, RNA regulation & cortical circuits? This might be for you 🧑🔬
Apply here 👉 tinyurl.com/2d659uj7
Please share!
Love developmental neurobiology, RNA regulation & cortical circuits? This might be for you 🧑🔬
Apply here 👉 tinyurl.com/2d659uj7
Please share!
October 21, 2025 at 12:54 PM
📣 We're hiring a postdoc to join our growing team @exeter.ac.uk!
Love developmental neurobiology, RNA regulation & cortical circuits? This might be for you 🧑🔬
Apply here 👉 tinyurl.com/2d659uj7
Please share!
Love developmental neurobiology, RNA regulation & cortical circuits? This might be for you 🧑🔬
Apply here 👉 tinyurl.com/2d659uj7
Please share!
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I am thrilled to share our latest story led by the incredibly talented Brooke D’Arcy and Camila Musso. We discover a rich world of local gene expression in radial glia, essential neural and glial precursors, and develop a new method for sub-cellular mRNA manipulation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I am thrilled to share our latest story led by the incredibly talented Brooke D’Arcy and Camila Musso. We discover a rich world of local gene expression in radial glia, essential neural and glial precursors, and develop a new method for sub-cellular mRNA manipulation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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We have a fully funded PhD studentship exploring glial cell development with techniques ranging from molecular neuroscience to system biology.
tinyurl.com/2jxezabw
Come and join our interdisciplinary team with Ruth Williams and Beatriz Bano Otalaro
#multiomics
#singlecell
#physiology
tinyurl.com/2jxezabw
Come and join our interdisciplinary team with Ruth Williams and Beatriz Bano Otalaro
#multiomics
#singlecell
#physiology
October 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
We have a fully funded PhD studentship exploring glial cell development with techniques ranging from molecular neuroscience to system biology.
tinyurl.com/2jxezabw
Come and join our interdisciplinary team with Ruth Williams and Beatriz Bano Otalaro
#multiomics
#singlecell
#physiology
tinyurl.com/2jxezabw
Come and join our interdisciplinary team with Ruth Williams and Beatriz Bano Otalaro
#multiomics
#singlecell
#physiology
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Interested in the mechanisms of neurogenesis, and how they might converge/differ across species, regions, and life epochs? Check this out, wonderful location and great science! Please RT
neuro-unige.ch/news/csf-mee...
neuro-unige.ch/news/csf-mee...
October 5, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Interested in the mechanisms of neurogenesis, and how they might converge/differ across species, regions, and life epochs? Check this out, wonderful location and great science! Please RT
neuro-unige.ch/news/csf-mee...
neuro-unige.ch/news/csf-mee...
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WTI Postdoctoral Fellowship applications are open! Unique opportunity for those pivoting fields or working across disciplines. I’d be happy to support candidates with a background in immunology and/or in vivo 2-photon imaging, including collaborations with other WTI labs wti.yale.edu/initiatives/...
Postdoctoral Fellowships | Wu Tsai Institute
wti.yale.edu
October 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
WTI Postdoctoral Fellowship applications are open! Unique opportunity for those pivoting fields or working across disciplines. I’d be happy to support candidates with a background in immunology and/or in vivo 2-photon imaging, including collaborations with other WTI labs wti.yale.edu/initiatives/...
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We are recruiting for a Research Associate / Project Manager to help us build and run a Brain Organoid Platform at King’s College London, as part of the UK Human Functional Genomics Neurodevelopment Cluster! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/125125-...
Research Associate - Project Manager - Brain Organoid Platform | King's College London
www.kcl.ac.uk
September 22, 2025 at 9:31 AM
We are recruiting for a Research Associate / Project Manager to help us build and run a Brain Organoid Platform at King’s College London, as part of the UK Human Functional Genomics Neurodevelopment Cluster! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/125125-...
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How do neurons deal with fitting large regulatory proteins into small spaces to control plasticity and memory? By generating micropeptides via local translation of circRNAs, of course! Here’s to shedding new light on the ‘dark’ proteome in the brain.
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
Local translation of circular RNAs is required for synaptic activity and memory
Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are enriched in synapses and implicated in cognitive processes, and recent studies have shown that circRNAs can encode micropeptides, which suggests that there may be novel sy...
www.biorxiv.org
September 20, 2025 at 1:11 AM
How do neurons deal with fitting large regulatory proteins into small spaces to control plasticity and memory? By generating micropeptides via local translation of circRNAs, of course! Here’s to shedding new light on the ‘dark’ proteome in the brain.
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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Ever wondered how robust cellular identity is to external perturbations? Here we disrupt cellular environmnent in vivo and in vitro, and find cell population specific sensitivities. Environment sculpts development yes, but not all cells are made of the same wood. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Cell-extrinsic controls over neocortical neuron fate and diversity
Cell-extrinsic cues are key for neocortical cell identity and diversity.
www.science.org
September 19, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Ever wondered how robust cellular identity is to external perturbations? Here we disrupt cellular environmnent in vivo and in vitro, and find cell population specific sensitivities. Environment sculpts development yes, but not all cells are made of the same wood. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A rather 'unique' paper from our lab is online in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social now. Unique in the sense that I don't think anyone else will be rushing to optotag cortical interneurons in the early postnatal brain... because it is nigh on impossible!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
GABAergic circuits reflect different requirements for sensory integration in postnatal mouse neocortex
Information transfer in mammalian cerebral cortex is dependent on GABAergic interneuron circuits that are widely assumed to be uniform across the neoc…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
A rather 'unique' paper from our lab is online in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social now. Unique in the sense that I don't think anyone else will be rushing to optotag cortical interneurons in the early postnatal brain... because it is nigh on impossible!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The Yang and Phillips labs have an exciting GW4 MRC BioMed DTP PhD project on beta-cell regeneration & designing new proteins with AI tools to control neural signals. Come join us at LSI-Exeter!
gw4biomed.ac.uk/regenerating...
@proteinmotion.bsky.social @lsiexeter.bsky.social #zebrafish #islet
gw4biomed.ac.uk/regenerating...
@proteinmotion.bsky.social @lsiexeter.bsky.social #zebrafish #islet
Regenerating insulin cells by using new designer biologics to fine-tune neural signals - GW4 BioMed MRC DTP
Project Code MRCPHS26Ex Yang Project Type Wet lab Research Theme Population Health Science Project Summary Download Summary A hallmark of type 1 diabetes is elevated blood glucose levels caused by aut...
gw4biomed.ac.uk
September 9, 2025 at 10:27 AM
The Yang and Phillips labs have an exciting GW4 MRC BioMed DTP PhD project on beta-cell regeneration & designing new proteins with AI tools to control neural signals. Come join us at LSI-Exeter!
gw4biomed.ac.uk/regenerating...
@proteinmotion.bsky.social @lsiexeter.bsky.social #zebrafish #islet
gw4biomed.ac.uk/regenerating...
@proteinmotion.bsky.social @lsiexeter.bsky.social #zebrafish #islet
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It was a pleasure writing this Perspective of our work. If you are interested in learning more about activity-dependent regulation of cortical cell numbers, do have a read.
tinyurl.com/4ede4jyb
tinyurl.com/4ede4jyb
September 8, 2025 at 6:58 AM
It was a pleasure writing this Perspective of our work. If you are interested in learning more about activity-dependent regulation of cortical cell numbers, do have a read.
tinyurl.com/4ede4jyb
tinyurl.com/4ede4jyb
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Hello #Drosophila & #insect people!
I am searching for libraries of ORF/RNA from Tribolium castaneum and Bombyx mori for cloning cDNA/proteins (or insects with unusual body plans).
Is there an existing resource centre where I can find them, please?
Thanks very much in advance for your help!
I am searching for libraries of ORF/RNA from Tribolium castaneum and Bombyx mori for cloning cDNA/proteins (or insects with unusual body plans).
Is there an existing resource centre where I can find them, please?
Thanks very much in advance for your help!
September 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Hello #Drosophila & #insect people!
I am searching for libraries of ORF/RNA from Tribolium castaneum and Bombyx mori for cloning cDNA/proteins (or insects with unusual body plans).
Is there an existing resource centre where I can find them, please?
Thanks very much in advance for your help!
I am searching for libraries of ORF/RNA from Tribolium castaneum and Bombyx mori for cloning cDNA/proteins (or insects with unusual body plans).
Is there an existing resource centre where I can find them, please?
Thanks very much in advance for your help!
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Please share!
PhD projects available through @gw4biomeddtp.bsky.social
Please get in touch if you are interested in studying chromatin biology in stem cell models
gw4biomed.ac.uk/architects-o...
gw4biomed.ac.uk/risk-vs-prot...
gw4biomed.ac.uk/rna-dependen...
gw4biomed.ac.uk/investigatin...
PhD projects available through @gw4biomeddtp.bsky.social
Please get in touch if you are interested in studying chromatin biology in stem cell models
gw4biomed.ac.uk/architects-o...
gw4biomed.ac.uk/risk-vs-prot...
gw4biomed.ac.uk/rna-dependen...
gw4biomed.ac.uk/investigatin...
Architects of the Genome: Using genomic technologies to elucidate the role of CTCF in neurodevelopmental disorders - GW4 BioMed MRC DTP
Project Code MRCNMH26Ex Flynn Project Type The project is primarily wet-lab based, with a dry-lab component in Years 2 and 3. Research Theme Neuroscience and Mental Health Project Summary Download Sum...
gw4biomed.ac.uk
September 2, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Please share!
PhD projects available through @gw4biomeddtp.bsky.social
Please get in touch if you are interested in studying chromatin biology in stem cell models
gw4biomed.ac.uk/architects-o...
gw4biomed.ac.uk/risk-vs-prot...
gw4biomed.ac.uk/rna-dependen...
gw4biomed.ac.uk/investigatin...
PhD projects available through @gw4biomeddtp.bsky.social
Please get in touch if you are interested in studying chromatin biology in stem cell models
gw4biomed.ac.uk/architects-o...
gw4biomed.ac.uk/risk-vs-prot...
gw4biomed.ac.uk/rna-dependen...
gw4biomed.ac.uk/investigatin...
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We are recruiting an enthusiastic engineer to work on the core project of our lab: identifying Hox protein-RNA networks in Drosophila
@igmm-montpel.bsky.social
Interested in BioID, UV-RIP and muscle development? Apply: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Please share! #jobOffer #RNA #hox #Drosophila
@igmm-montpel.bsky.social
Interested in BioID, UV-RIP and muscle development? Apply: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Please share! #jobOffer #RNA #hox #Drosophila
Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Engineer in molecular biology (M/F)
emploi.cnrs.fr
August 29, 2025 at 11:57 AM
We are recruiting an enthusiastic engineer to work on the core project of our lab: identifying Hox protein-RNA networks in Drosophila
@igmm-montpel.bsky.social
Interested in BioID, UV-RIP and muscle development? Apply: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Please share! #jobOffer #RNA #hox #Drosophila
@igmm-montpel.bsky.social
Interested in BioID, UV-RIP and muscle development? Apply: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Please share! #jobOffer #RNA #hox #Drosophila
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Extremely excited to share the outcome of a fantastic collaboration with @erinduffyphd.bsky.social revealing how experiences reshape hippocamapl chromatin and gene expression.
Check out our searchable gene database and look up your favorite gene 🧬
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Check out our searchable gene database and look up your favorite gene 🧬
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Novel environment exposure drives temporally defined and region-specific chromatin accessibility and gene expression changes in the hippocampus - Nature Communications
Hippocampal neurons adapt to experience through changes in gene expression and chromatin accessibility. Here, authors show that novel environment exposure induces region- and cell-type specific transc...
www.nature.com
August 22, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Extremely excited to share the outcome of a fantastic collaboration with @erinduffyphd.bsky.social revealing how experiences reshape hippocamapl chromatin and gene expression.
Check out our searchable gene database and look up your favorite gene 🧬
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Check out our searchable gene database and look up your favorite gene 🧬
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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French only: article vulgarisé de nos premiers travaux d'équipe @igmm-montpel.bsky.social @wxiang007c.bsky.social #RNA #Hox #muscle
Merci pour votre soutien a notre recherche fondamentale 🙏 @afm-telethon.bsky.social @agencerecherche.bsky.social
Merci pour votre soutien a notre recherche fondamentale 🙏 @afm-telethon.bsky.social @agencerecherche.bsky.social
#ResultatScientifique🔎| Les facteurs Hox ne lisent pas seulement l’ADN : ils dialoguent aussi avec l’ARN ! 🧬
🤝 @cnrs.fr @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social
✍️ @jcarnesecchi.bsky.social
📕 @narjournal.bsky.social
🤝 @cnrs.fr @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social
✍️ @jcarnesecchi.bsky.social
📕 @narjournal.bsky.social
Quand le plan du corps s’écrit à deux voix : ADN et ARN, une nouvelle partition de la régulation génique
Les facteurs de transcription Hox, longtemps considérés comme des lecteurs d’ADN, s’avèrent aussi interagir directement avec
buff.ly
August 19, 2025 at 2:50 PM
French only: article vulgarisé de nos premiers travaux d'équipe @igmm-montpel.bsky.social @wxiang007c.bsky.social #RNA #Hox #muscle
Merci pour votre soutien a notre recherche fondamentale 🙏 @afm-telethon.bsky.social @agencerecherche.bsky.social
Merci pour votre soutien a notre recherche fondamentale 🙏 @afm-telethon.bsky.social @agencerecherche.bsky.social
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New pre-print on sex differences in the choroid plexus- the 🧠's fluid secretion organ. Important differences in secretory signaling & immune compartments that can impact the 🧠 in health & disease. @karol-kaiser.bsky.social@violesilvar.bsky.social Luca von Allmen. 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Choroid plexus sex differences in secretory signalling and immune compartments
The choroid plexus (ChP)- cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) axis is emerging as a key regulator of the brain environment. The ChP is a multi-functional structure, which forms the blood-CSF barrier, and acts a...
www.biorxiv.org
August 20, 2025 at 1:36 PM
New pre-print on sex differences in the choroid plexus- the 🧠's fluid secretion organ. Important differences in secretory signaling & immune compartments that can impact the 🧠 in health & disease. @karol-kaiser.bsky.social@violesilvar.bsky.social Luca von Allmen. 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Latest paper elifesciences.org/articles/107... closes an important cycle in our efforts to study regeneration: week-long recordings allow us to observe the behaviour of cells during the entire course of regeneration in a crustacean leg – bright objects in movie are fluorescent nuclei of cells. 1/6
August 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Latest paper elifesciences.org/articles/107... closes an important cycle in our efforts to study regeneration: week-long recordings allow us to observe the behaviour of cells during the entire course of regeneration in a crustacean leg – bright objects in movie are fluorescent nuclei of cells. 1/6
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🚨New Review! We explore how thalamocortical circuits wire up by sensory modality — from genes to spontaneous activity and plasticity. @NatureReviewsNeuroscience @glb-lab.bsky.social @neuroalc.bsky.social
🔗https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-025-00945-y
🔗https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-025-00945-y
July 31, 2025 at 9:35 AM
🚨New Review! We explore how thalamocortical circuits wire up by sensory modality — from genes to spontaneous activity and plasticity. @NatureReviewsNeuroscience @glb-lab.bsky.social @neuroalc.bsky.social
🔗https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-025-00945-y
🔗https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-025-00945-y
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🧠 Opportunity for a post-doctoral position on human neurobiology, funded by the @erc.europa.eu!
🧫You want to use human pluripotent stem cell based models to understand the evolution of human cerebellar neurons and disorders, this position is for you!
🔗Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
🧫You want to use human pluripotent stem cell based models to understand the evolution of human cerebellar neurons and disorders, this position is for you!
🔗Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Postdoctoral researcher in human neurobiology (M/F)
emploi.cnrs.fr
July 30, 2025 at 8:26 AM
🧠 Opportunity for a post-doctoral position on human neurobiology, funded by the @erc.europa.eu!
🧫You want to use human pluripotent stem cell based models to understand the evolution of human cerebellar neurons and disorders, this position is for you!
🔗Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
🧫You want to use human pluripotent stem cell based models to understand the evolution of human cerebellar neurons and disorders, this position is for you!
🔗Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
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📢 We are recruiting!
Several projects are available and can be tailored to the candidate's profile. Most include confocal imaging/spatial OMICs technologies.
Please share and RT 🙏
Several projects are available and can be tailored to the candidate's profile. Most include confocal imaging/spatial OMICs technologies.
Please share and RT 🙏
July 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
📢 We are recruiting!
Several projects are available and can be tailored to the candidate's profile. Most include confocal imaging/spatial OMICs technologies.
Please share and RT 🙏
Several projects are available and can be tailored to the candidate's profile. Most include confocal imaging/spatial OMICs technologies.
Please share and RT 🙏
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How do epigenetic modifications contribute to human #neocortex #development? Excited to see our work out in #Neuron. We applied Epi-CyTOF and identified a novel role for PRC2 in regulating #ECM.
@crtd-tud.bsky.social @cp-neuron.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A thread below 👇
@crtd-tud.bsky.social @cp-neuron.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A thread below 👇
July 23, 2025 at 11:33 AM
How do epigenetic modifications contribute to human #neocortex #development? Excited to see our work out in #Neuron. We applied Epi-CyTOF and identified a novel role for PRC2 in regulating #ECM.
@crtd-tud.bsky.social @cp-neuron.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A thread below 👇
@crtd-tud.bsky.social @cp-neuron.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A thread below 👇