Anestis Tsakiridis
@tsakiridis.bsky.social
Research group leader and Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield. Stem cells, embryonic development, disease modelling, regenerative medicine: https://www.tsakiridislab.com/
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📣 Paper alert!
I am delighted that our paper exploring the impact of Neanderthal-derived variants on the activity of a disease-associated craniofacial enhancer has been published in Development today!
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I am delighted that our paper exploring the impact of Neanderthal-derived variants on the activity of a disease-associated craniofacial enhancer has been published in Development today!
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
November 10, 2025 at 11:11 AM
📣 Paper alert!
I am delighted that our paper exploring the impact of Neanderthal-derived variants on the activity of a disease-associated craniofacial enhancer has been published in Development today!
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
I am delighted that our paper exploring the impact of Neanderthal-derived variants on the activity of a disease-associated craniofacial enhancer has been published in Development today!
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
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An exciting PhD opportunity to work at the University of Sheffield on how e-cigarettes affect reproduction and offspring: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience DLA Programme: Defining the Reproductive and Offspring Developmental Impacts of e-Cigarettes at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience DLA Programme: Defining the Reproductive and Offspring Developmental Impacts of e-Cigarettes at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com
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November 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
An exciting PhD opportunity to work at the University of Sheffield on how e-cigarettes affect reproduction and offspring: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Please repost - Multiple PhDs available
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November 5, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Please repost - Multiple PhDs available
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🚨 Come join us @sheffielduni.bsky.social for a PhD on the evolution and development of feathers and flight! 🐣🔬
This project is supervised by @matt-towers.bsky.social & @alexgfletcher.bsky.social, and I'm excited to be involved as a project advisor. Please share!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🧪
This project is supervised by @matt-towers.bsky.social & @alexgfletcher.bsky.social, and I'm excited to be involved as a project advisor. Please share!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🧪
November 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
🚨 Come join us @sheffielduni.bsky.social for a PhD on the evolution and development of feathers and flight! 🐣🔬
This project is supervised by @matt-towers.bsky.social & @alexgfletcher.bsky.social, and I'm excited to be involved as a project advisor. Please share!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🧪
This project is supervised by @matt-towers.bsky.social & @alexgfletcher.bsky.social, and I'm excited to be involved as a project advisor. Please share!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🧪
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Last chance to apply - closing Nov 3rd: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/ Consider coming to Cambridge to work on a highly collaborative project on lung stem cells and lung disease with @labrawlins.bsky.social and @jennydickens41.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Last chance to apply - closing Nov 3rd: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52936/ Consider coming to Cambridge to work on a highly collaborative project on lung stem cells and lung disease with @labrawlins.bsky.social and @jennydickens41.bsky.social
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🚨 PhD Projects 🚨
We are advertising two UKRI funded PhD projects at the @sheffielduni.bsky.social. #stemcells #development #embryology #reproductivephysiology #mathmaticalmodelling #quantitativebiology
We are advertising two UKRI funded PhD projects at the @sheffielduni.bsky.social. #stemcells #development #embryology #reproductivephysiology #mathmaticalmodelling #quantitativebiology
October 31, 2025 at 7:39 AM
🚨 PhD Projects 🚨
We are advertising two UKRI funded PhD projects at the @sheffielduni.bsky.social. #stemcells #development #embryology #reproductivephysiology #mathmaticalmodelling #quantitativebiology
We are advertising two UKRI funded PhD projects at the @sheffielduni.bsky.social. #stemcells #development #embryology #reproductivephysiology #mathmaticalmodelling #quantitativebiology
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Thrilled to share my main postdoc work with @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social
We used genomic barcoding + scRNAseq in chick & human embryos to reveal a lineage architecture that reshapes how we understand neural tube development & cell fate decisions
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We used genomic barcoding + scRNAseq in chick & human embryos to reveal a lineage architecture that reshapes how we understand neural tube development & cell fate decisions
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Hierarchical lineage architecture of human and avian spinal cord revealed by single-cell genomic barcoding
The formation of neural circuits depends on the precise spatial and temporal organisation of neuronal populations during development. In the vertebrate spinal cord, progenitors are patterned into mole...
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October 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Thrilled to share my main postdoc work with @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social
We used genomic barcoding + scRNAseq in chick & human embryos to reveal a lineage architecture that reshapes how we understand neural tube development & cell fate decisions
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We used genomic barcoding + scRNAseq in chick & human embryos to reveal a lineage architecture that reshapes how we understand neural tube development & cell fate decisions
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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I am absolutely delighted to share the invited speakers for our upcoming @bsdb.bsky.social "Molecules to Morphogenesis" meeting!
Registration and abstract submission is now open - join us!
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March 23-26, 2026 - UK
Registration and abstract submission is now open - join us!
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March 23-26, 2026 - UK
October 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I am absolutely delighted to share the invited speakers for our upcoming @bsdb.bsky.social "Molecules to Morphogenesis" meeting!
Registration and abstract submission is now open - join us!
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March 23-26, 2026 - UK
Registration and abstract submission is now open - join us!
bsdb.org/meetings/
March 23-26, 2026 - UK
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Hot on the heels of our recent basic science preprint. Check out our preprint of a data driven study looking at Hirschsprung Disease Outcomes of children in England using ECHILD (medrxiv.org/cgi/content/...).
Childhood outcomes in children with Hirschsprung disease: a population-based data linkage study in England
Objective Hirschsprung disease (HSCR) is a rare congenital intestinal condition that, despite lifesaving surgery, can result in increased hospitalisations and a lower quality of life throughout childh...
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October 20, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Hot on the heels of our recent basic science preprint. Check out our preprint of a data driven study looking at Hirschsprung Disease Outcomes of children in England using ECHILD (medrxiv.org/cgi/content/...).
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Check out our lab’s new preprint (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...) on the consequences of ENS progenitor transplantation to mouse Hirschsprung disease explants. Delighted to continue a fruitful collaboration with
@tsakiridis.bsky.social
to develop a #celltherapy for #Hirschsprungs
@tsakiridis.bsky.social
to develop a #celltherapy for #Hirschsprungs
Functional and molecular rescue of aganglionic colon by human enteric nervous system progenitor transplantation in Hirschsprung disease
Hirschsprung disease (HSCR) is a devastating congenital disorder characterised by absence of the enteric nervous system (ENS) in the distal gut. Cell therapy, using human pluripotent stem cell-derived...
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October 17, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Check out our lab’s new preprint (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...) on the consequences of ENS progenitor transplantation to mouse Hirschsprung disease explants. Delighted to continue a fruitful collaboration with
@tsakiridis.bsky.social
to develop a #celltherapy for #Hirschsprungs
@tsakiridis.bsky.social
to develop a #celltherapy for #Hirschsprungs
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Happy to share our new preprint!
Simplified In Vitro Generation of Human Gastruloids for Modelling Early Development https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.15.682610v1
October 16, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Happy to share our new preprint!
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Today we are honoured to host Dr Sally Lowell @cellysally.bsky.social (University of Edinburgh), winner of the 2024 BSDB Wolpert Medal, who is giving a talk in our DRN external seminar series
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Host: Marysia Placzek
All welcome!
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Host: Marysia Placzek
All welcome!
October 15, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Today we are honoured to host Dr Sally Lowell @cellysally.bsky.social (University of Edinburgh), winner of the 2024 BSDB Wolpert Medal, who is giving a talk in our DRN external seminar series
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Host: Marysia Placzek
All welcome!
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Host: Marysia Placzek
All welcome!
I am co-organising a @cclguk.bsky.social @dmmjournal.bsky.social symposium on the developmental origins of paediatric cancers at the @crick.ac.uk on 8/6/2026. Great speaker line up, affordable registration and available slots for short talks-spread the word! www.cclg.org.uk/information-...
Developmental origins of paediatric cancer symposium
A one-day event showcasing the latest cutting-edge research on the modelling, biology and treatment of paediatric cancers in the context of their developmental origins.
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October 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I am co-organising a @cclguk.bsky.social @dmmjournal.bsky.social symposium on the developmental origins of paediatric cancers at the @crick.ac.uk on 8/6/2026. Great speaker line up, affordable registration and available slots for short talks-spread the word! www.cclg.org.uk/information-...
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Many enhancers that drive tissue-specific gene expression are already connected to gene promoters in human pluripotent cells.
In a new preprint, we share some clues about when, how, and why this happens!
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In a new preprint, we share some clues about when, how, and why this happens!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Poising and connectivity of emergent human developmental enhancers in the transition from naive to primed pluripotency
In primed human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) resembling post-implantation epiblast, numerous lineage-specific enhancers assume the poised chromatin state, co-marked by H3K4me1 and Polycomb-associate...
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October 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Many enhancers that drive tissue-specific gene expression are already connected to gene promoters in human pluripotent cells.
In a new preprint, we share some clues about when, how, and why this happens!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
In a new preprint, we share some clues about when, how, and why this happens!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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How do #stemcells integrate information to coordinate fate decisions? Delighted to finally see our work showing how growth factors regulate the mechano-osmotic state of the #nucleus and #chromatin to control #pluripotency exit out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... see 🧵 👇
Mechano-osmotic signals control chromatin state and fate transitions in pluripotent stem cells - Nature Cell Biology
McCreery, Stubb et al. show that mechano-osmotic changes in the nucleus induce general transcriptional repression and prime chromatin for cell fate transitions by relieving repression of specific differentiation genes.
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September 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
How do #stemcells integrate information to coordinate fate decisions? Delighted to finally see our work showing how growth factors regulate the mechano-osmotic state of the #nucleus and #chromatin to control #pluripotency exit out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... see 🧵 👇
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Neuroblastoma-associated ALK variants have distinct cellular and biochemical activities https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.25.677354v1
September 26, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Neuroblastoma-associated ALK variants have distinct cellular and biochemical activities https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.25.677354v1
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@mariasecrier.bsky.social & I are looking for an enthusiastic & excellent data scientist for a 4-year postdoc to understand cell cycle dysregulation in cancer.
Deadline 15th October. Get in touch if you have any questions.
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More details:
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Deadline 15th October. Get in touch if you have any questions.
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Description
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September 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
@mariasecrier.bsky.social & I are looking for an enthusiastic & excellent data scientist for a 4-year postdoc to understand cell cycle dysregulation in cancer.
Deadline 15th October. Get in touch if you have any questions.
Please repost!
More details:
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Deadline 15th October. Get in touch if you have any questions.
Please repost!
More details:
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
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We have an exciting, fully funded PhD studentship (UK and ROI) to investigate mechanisms of epigenetic regulation in drug resistant B-cell lymphoma.
We are looking for a highly motivated, driven candidate to join our team.
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We are looking for a highly motivated, driven candidate to join our team.
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Targeting USP7-PRC1 axis as a novel therapeutic approach in drug resistant Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma at Queen’s University Belfast on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Targeting USP7-PRC1 axis as a novel therapeutic approach in drug resistant Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma at Queen’s University Belfast, listed on FindAPhD.com
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September 18, 2025 at 3:36 AM
We have an exciting, fully funded PhD studentship (UK and ROI) to investigate mechanisms of epigenetic regulation in drug resistant B-cell lymphoma.
We are looking for a highly motivated, driven candidate to join our team.
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We are looking for a highly motivated, driven candidate to join our team.
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I am advertising for a #postdoc for a 3 year BBSRC-funded project exploring the role of macrophages in salivary gland development. The successful candidate will be based at @edinuni-irr.bsky.social at @uni-of-edinburgh.bsky.social. Closing date: 9th Oct. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Emmerson lab within the Institute for Regeneration and Repair at the University of Edinburgh. This three year, BBSRC-funded postdoctoral research associa...
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September 13, 2025 at 8:58 AM
I am advertising for a #postdoc for a 3 year BBSRC-funded project exploring the role of macrophages in salivary gland development. The successful candidate will be based at @edinuni-irr.bsky.social at @uni-of-edinburgh.bsky.social. Closing date: 9th Oct. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
A 6-month postdoc position is currently available in our group. The project involves the use of hPSC-based models to dissect the links between chromosomal copy number alterations, DNA damage and tumour initiation-please spread the word-closing date=29th Sept: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DON353/r...
Research Associate (Stem Cell/Cancer Biology)
Research Associate (Stem Cell/Cancer Biology)
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September 11, 2025 at 10:32 AM
A 6-month postdoc position is currently available in our group. The project involves the use of hPSC-based models to dissect the links between chromosomal copy number alterations, DNA damage and tumour initiation-please spread the word-closing date=29th Sept: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DON353/r...
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I'm a bit late to the party over here. I'll be advertising a BBSRC-funded postdoc position soon. So if anyone wants to solve some outstanding questions in limb development - please get in touch. We have a variety of models and approaches (everything from stem cells to sharks). towerslab.weebly.com
September 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I'm a bit late to the party over here. I'll be advertising a BBSRC-funded postdoc position soon. So if anyone wants to solve some outstanding questions in limb development - please get in touch. We have a variety of models and approaches (everything from stem cells to sharks). towerslab.weebly.com
Really nice work by @fredwck.bsky.social and the groups of Val Wilson and Ian Chambers (including a small contribution from me from my Edinburgh postdoc years) showing how pluripotency factors can temporally orchestrate both pluripotency and it extinction: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
NANOG is repurposed after implantation to repress Sox2 and begin pluripotency extinction | The EMBO Journal
imageimageSOX2 and NANOG are core transcription factors governing pre-implantation pluripotency
in the developing embryo. Here, extensive in vivo imaging and genetic analysis uncovers
a novel post-imp...
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August 19, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Really nice work by @fredwck.bsky.social and the groups of Val Wilson and Ian Chambers (including a small contribution from me from my Edinburgh postdoc years) showing how pluripotency factors can temporally orchestrate both pluripotency and it extinction: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
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Dev biologists! 3-yr postdoc position at King's, collaboration with Trizzino lab @marcotrizzino.bsky.social modelling CHD3 neural crest. We are looking for postdocs with mad embryology skills @the-node.bsky.social #developmental @ccrb27.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral Research Associate: Modelling Neural Crest Anomalies (mouse/human) - the Node
The Liu lab is looking for a postdoc with a love of embryos and developmental biology! This post is part of an MRC-funded collaboration between Karen Liu’s lab at King’s College London and Marco Trizz...
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August 5, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Dev biologists! 3-yr postdoc position at King's, collaboration with Trizzino lab @marcotrizzino.bsky.social modelling CHD3 neural crest. We are looking for postdocs with mad embryology skills @the-node.bsky.social #developmental @ccrb27.bsky.social
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Application deadline for up to 5 @mrc-lms.bsky.social postdoc positions in developmental epigenetics closes soon - don’t miss out! Positions across both experimental and computational projects. Come and join our fantastic team science community!
Interested in developmental epigenetics? So are we! Apply now to join us for your postdoc!
Multiple positions across multiple groups @mrc-lms.bsky.social
Projects spanning germline demethylation, gene regulation, genome architecture in development & disease 👇👇
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Multiple positions across multiple groups @mrc-lms.bsky.social
Projects spanning germline demethylation, gene regulation, genome architecture in development & disease 👇👇
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MRC Postdoctoral Research Scientists x 5 - MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences
Applications are now open for up to five postdoctoral positions in the area of developmental epigenetics.
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August 1, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Application deadline for up to 5 @mrc-lms.bsky.social postdoc positions in developmental epigenetics closes soon - don’t miss out! Positions across both experimental and computational projects. Come and join our fantastic team science community!