🎉 Happy to share that my main PhD project is now published in EMBO Journal!
How do human dopamine neurons connect with their striatal targets, and how does that influence their development and maturation?
Full story here: https://t.co/7FiMjL2XAk
#Neuroscience#DOPAMINE
🔬 I’m happy to share our new preprint on bioRxiv, where we introduce connectoids — a human stem cell–based, compartmentalized model to reconstruct the nigrostriatal pathway in vitro.
📰 Read more here: https://t.co/kXUVC0nhHH
Out now in Stem Cell Reports! ✨
In this work we present a 3D co-culture system for the generation of human somatostatin (SST) interneurons 🧠
📄 Read the full paper here:
https://t.co/NbQPMYmUeA
Exciting news in Huntington’s disease research! Transplanted human striatal progenitors can functionally integrate and modulate host brain circuits in a Huntington’s disease animal model - a promising step toward cell based therapy!
Full story: https://t.co/9t3CycsGSn
6 months ago I defended my PhD thesis, and looking back it feels both close and far away - so much has happened since then! Thanks to everyone who shared this journey with me, especially my supervisors Malin, Alessandro and Daniella, and also my opponent Gonçalo.
Onwards!
Our review "Advances, challenges, and opportunities of human midbrain organoids for modelling the dopaminergic system" is out now on @embojournal 🧪🎉
With @Fiorenzano555 , @ParmarLab and the special contibution of @ArlottaLab 🧠
Read more here: https://t.co/M8nlXiBY80
Another piece added to the human mesencephalon puzzle: uncovering dopaminergic neuron identity based on their axonal target with transplantation, retrograde barcoding, and single-cell technologies 🧩🔬@ParmarLab@petter_storm@edo_sozzi@Bjorklund | PNAS https://t.co/lhAIUecM70
If you are at @ISSCR and want to discuss cell replacement therapy for Parkinson’a Disease, dopaminergic organoids or single cell RNA seq reach out! 🐭🧠Tomorrow Hall 3 at 1.30 🎙️
Today poster 181 at 3.45 with German Ramos Passarello 🧫
"Don't Miss Out! 🎉 Tomorrow, July 12: @edo_sozz Talk! Great science on Dopaminergic Neuron Transplants, cografts for Parkinson's, and lots of fun! 🧠✨ #ISSCR2024@ParmarLab
Björklund & Barker summarize experimental data in support of the idea that transplants of cholinergic neurons could be used to restore cognitive function in patients with Parkinson´s disease. https://t.co/69vr7hr0hQ
We are excited to share our latest work on developing a model of the human dopaminergic system with functional dopaminergic innervation, which we use to study Parkinson’s cell therapy as well as the reward system, published today in Nature Methods (https://t.co/2Xf6JyG3K2).
Cheers and congratulations Dr Jessica Giacomoni @ParmarLab@Ottossonlab for your well deserved PhD degree. Great defence with Faculty opponent Marisa Karow and committee members @CellReproLab@Iben_Lundgaard and Ulrika Englund.