Happy Halloween from our multi-cultural lab! 🎃

In Cell, I share a major conceptual challenge for biology in the next decade, inspired by Crick’s Central Dogma: understanding information flow in the cell, the smallest indivisible unit of life bit.ly/4hQMmva

🔬 Are you eager to dive into the world of light microscopy and learn from top-notch microscopists about its essential techniques for life science applications? If that sounds exciting, don’t miss out on this free, in-depth iBiology series! 👉 ibiology.org/online-biology…

Examine multimodal data from thousands of cells across three mammalian species with the Cell Type Knowledge Explorer, an open science resource developed with BICCN and supported by the BRAIN Initiative Alliance. Explore it at: knowledge.brain-map.org/celltypes #BICCN #studyBRAIN

Temporally distinct 3D multi-omic dynamics in the developing human brain | Nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

Started with bluesky: Alex Shchekin.bsky.social

Thank you 🙏 nytimes.com/2024/11/17/us/…

Way to go H M Arif Ullah, PhD !!👏👏

Brain cancer leverages the same tools as the developing brain 🧠! In our new study, published today in nature, we mapped neocortical development to explore brain cancer and neuropsychiatric risks. #stemcells #brainresearch nature.com/articles/s4158…

Great meeting- highly recommend!! 👇

Delighted to share our most recent preprint led by the incredible Jessenya Mil and Jose Soto! In this study, we generated a metabolomic atlas of human cortical development and discovered that the pentose phosphate pathway regulates radial glia cell fate. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New Article! Generating and characterizing human telencephalic brain organoids from stem cell-derived single neural rosettes bit.ly/40onGmE

Great analytics! Indeed, it is “brutally difficult” to do rigorous biomedical research and cutting NIH funding may have detrimental consequences. “Cutting science won’t balance the budget—but it might bankrupt our future.”

Really interesting study on social information processing in the prefrontal cortex 👇

NIH announces end to funding for animal-only studies drugdiscoverytrends.com/nih-announces-…

This is a cool one. We leveraged single cell analysis and in vivo calcium imaging to examine how ASD risk gene Shank3 alters the activity of heterogeneous cell populations during anxiety. Congrats to Hailee,Damhyeon Kwak , and Prakash! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Look forward to visiting UCLA next week!!

Honored to give a seminar in Ukrainian at the oldest Ukrainian Scientific Society in US - the only US nonprofit supporting scientists and medical students in Ukraine during this difficult time! Thank you!