Magdalena Schatka
mschatka.bsky.social
Magdalena Schatka
@mschatka.bsky.social
NRPDTP PhD student @Munsterberg group
Working on early heart development in the chicken embryo
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Thrilled to share that our latest work on marsupial heterochrony is now online at @cp-devcell.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social @lab-turner.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk We used scRNAseq to understand the asynchronous progression of developmental programmes in marsupials www.cell.com/developmenta...
Marsupial single-cell transcriptomics identifies temporal diversity in mammalian developmental programs
Menchero et al. generate a single-cell transcriptomic atlas in the opossum and show rapid progression of transcriptional programs in specific tissues relative to morphological landmarks. This shift in...
www.cell.com
July 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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One week left for early-'bird' (pun intended) registration...Join us @stowersinstitute.bsky.social @saukaspengler.bsky.social this fall for all the bird talk!! www.stowers.org/events/avian...
Research Organisms in Flight: Revealing the Roots of Vertebrate Form…
Organized by Tatjana Sauka-Spengler, Ph.D., and Ruth Williams, Ph.D.
www.stowers.org
July 25, 2025 at 8:28 AM
New paper from the Munsterberg lab!
Shannons PhD project is finally out, showing off her hard work on how the cervical-to-thoracic boundary is established during development. She combined ATAC- & RNA-seq to identify key regulatory elements of HOXC6 and HOXC8.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Transcriptomics and chromatin accessibility signatures define the cervical-thoracic boundary along the vertebrate axis
In vertebrate embryos, somite pairs form on either side of the neural tube along the main body axis. Somites generate the tissues of the musculoskelet…
www.sciencedirect.com
June 18, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Excited to be speaking at this year’s Pint of Science in Norwich! I’ll be joining two other female scientist to talk all about development over a lifetime. Looking forward to a great evening of science! #pint25
pintofscience.co.uk/event/growin...
Growing Up: Development over a Lifetime
How does a single egg become a human, and how does this shape our aging? From the earliest heartbeat in embryos to the aging of blood vessels, we’ll explor…
pintofscience.co.uk
April 14, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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🚨Registration for the UK #EvoDevo meeting is open! Join us on July 11th in London to enjoy an exciting day of talks, posters, friends, and superb science!
-Registration (only £5!): shorturl.at/9cQGL
-More info: londonevodevo.ac.uk
March 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Tanya's @tclebedeva.bsky.social paper on endomesoderm specification in the beta-catenin-negative area of the Nematostella embryo is out! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
β-catenin-driven endomesoderm specification is a Bilateria-specific novelty - Nature Communications
Lebedeva et al. show that unlike Bilateria, the embryo of the cnidarian Nematostella specifies its endomesoderm in the β-catenin-negative domain. In contrast, subsequent β-catenin-dependent axial patt...
www.nature.com
March 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Need to electroporate and/or live image avian embryos? We hope our new preprint will help you get started:

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Open EGGbox: an open-source 3D-printed embryonic Gallus gallus toolbox for electroporation and culture/live imaging of avian embryos ex ovo

🧪🐣 #devbio
March 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Our latest: uncovering hierarchical design rules for cis-regulatory elements with a high-throughput screen

CRE activity follows multiplicative modular rules, tuned by spacing & positioning

Enables engineering synthetic CREs for predictable tissue patterning

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Predictable Engineering of Signal-Dependent Cis-Regulatory Elements
www.biorxiv.org
March 10, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Please come along to tomorrow's Slice of Science! We will be hearing talks from Lucio Sousa Pinheiro in MED and Magdalena Schatka in BIO, as well as hearing some exciting announcements for PGRs!
February 27, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Our atlas of BMP signaling activity in adult Nematostella is finally out! Fantastic, meticulous work and beautiful illustrations by @paulknabl.bsky.social
Thanks, @fwf-at.bsky.social for funding our work!
bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
A whole-body atlas of BMP signaling activity in an adult sea anemone - BMC Biology
Background BMP signaling is responsible for the second body axis patterning in Bilateria and in the bilaterally symmetric members of the bilaterian sister clade Cnidaria—corals and sea anemones. Howev...
bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com
February 21, 2025 at 6:53 PM