Sauka-Spengler Lab

Research group @MRC_WIMM using systems approaches to understand gene regulation during development and disease in zebrafish, chick, lamprey and human models.

[Güneş Taylor @GunesTaylor]

A pleasure to introduce (and mildly embarrass 😈) my Doctoral supervisor @saukaspengler deliver her Keynote at #EGGED2022 🐣many thanks to the organisers @roslininstitute @GenSocUK @HCRimaging @Co_Biologists @RoyalSocEd

[Dr Megan Davey @twobluechickens]

@GunesTaylor introducing @TSS_Lab at #EGGED2022- a great lineage of women working on neural crest. @roslininstitute @GenSocUK @HCRimaging @Co_Biologists @RoyalSocEd

[Güneş Taylor @GunesTaylor]

Always a pleasure to hear @RuthWilliamsOx talk about beautiful data & beautiful embryos. @TSS_Lab @ScienceStowers @Caltech @BronnerLab

[Tatjana Sauka-Spengler @saukaspengler]

A fantastic lab retreat day for @TSS_Lab - diverse science, great people, TSS-like delays, new plans - I love my lab!

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And to wrap up, our superstar @MaraArtibani @oxfordahmedlab on her inspiring work fighting off high grade serous ovarian cancer 🎗

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We also heard the brilliant work from @OanaPelea on engineering inducible single guide RNAs responsive to endogenous triggers in vivo 🔥 and our fantastic @_muhammadhanifi on his work developing a CRISPR-based system for muscular dystrophy therapy 🦠

#watchtheseones #synbio

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And the retreat goes (even more) international: straight from Lithuania, our visiting PhD student Migle Kalvaityte from Vilnius University on her work on tcf21 role during 🐟🫀 regeneration

#teamfish

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We had also the pleasure to learn about @zhi_yuan_hu and Aden Forrow work on lineage tracing; Dan Fountain on the biology of meninges in development and disease; and the South American team Ivan and Andrea on ML methods to dissect enhancers 🐣🫀🐟

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In true TSS lab spirit, so far we had such a range of topics being discussed: we kick started with @RuthWilliamsOx on her beautiful work studying fate decisions in the neural plate border. @simoesfili and Michael Weinberger discussed their work on regulation of heart regeneration

[Sauka-Spengler Lab @TSS_Lab]

Team cardiac strikes again, with our @ChloeTubman talking about her work on probing WT1 function in zebrafish heart #regeneration 🫀🐟

[Sauka-Spengler Lab @TSS_Lab]

And our guest Scottish Andrew - an expert on British cookies and biscuits - talking about his work on adoptive T cell therapeutic approaches, conducted at Prof. Ronjon Chakraverty's lab

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And now o̶u̶r̶ @van_cmorr @stevewilsonlab @ucl on the quest to identify functional non coding RNAs 🐟

[Sauka-Spengler Lab @TSS_Lab]

3 years since our last retreat in Croatia, the lab is reunited in @KebleConference today for our annual lab retreat!

As our talented postdoc Evgeny Akkuratov put:
keep calm and love #neuralcrest

[MartynaLukoseviciute @LukMartyna]

Good news alert - New Doctor in @UniofOxford town!!!! My best lab buddy @ivanferrreira has successfully defended his thesis today, full of #embryos, #enhancers, #species, #scRNA, #scATAC, beautiful people, tequila shots and so much more! #PhDone @TSS_Lab Well done my friend 🐢🎊

[Tatjana Sauka-Spengler @saukaspengler]

Congratulations Dr Ivan Candido Ferreira @ivanferrreira @TSS_Lab @MRC_WIMM @RDMOxford ! I am so proud of you. Thank you very much to Prof Paola Oliveri @OliveriLab @CloeFor and Prof Peter Holland @OxfordBiology for 5 long hours of examination!

[Sauka-Spengler Lab @TSS_Lab]

Sorry everyone - short link is not working. Open access below:
https://t.co/wiHlUCHDgx

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The cranial neural crest migrates into the multi-omics era: exciting review by our @van_cmorr and @saukaspengler highlighting novel approaches to study NC gene regulatory dynamics - and the critical questions they might answer, now out @FrontPhysiol https://t.co/WDAKAlTKnL 🐟🐣

[Filipa Simões @simoesfili]

I can never get enough of this story 🤩 congratulations @LukMartyna, as always learning so much with you! #2020SDB @___SDB___ @TSS_Lab

[MartynaLukoseviciute @LukMartyna]

Did you know FoxD3 is also known as 'Genesis'? Very appropriate name - each time I work on it - whole new beginnings open up! If you are at #SDB2020, tune in tomorrow - Conc. Sess. 1 "Pattern formation across scales" to hear about the genesis of a new tale or should I say - tail?

[Filipa Simões @simoesfili]

This session is going to be 🔥🔥🔥 amazing science done by amazing women @Irina_Matos_ @LukMartyna @_Priya_R Can’t wait for #2020SDB @___SDB___ #devbio