New paper from @VallierLab is online. "Acquisition of epithelial plasticity in human chronic liver diseases". Amazing work from @chrisgrbbn and @VasileiosGalan in collaboration with @imohorianu and Mike Alison. Few key points: 1/ link.springer.com/article/10…

❗️Zelensky says Putin rejected proposals to test his intentions, including leader-level talks on territory and deploying US and European troops along the front line. He adds Moscow downplays land demands while targeting Donbas, warning this signals plans for further advances deeper into Ukraine. #Ukraine

We are delighted to launch the Roger Williams Institute of Liver Studies Clinical Catalyst Scheme! Designed to provide research-qualified health professionals, not currently undertaking any substantial research activity, the opportunity to form a collaborative, high-quality research partnership with established biomedical and applied health researchers within the RW-ILS and with protected time and funding to enhance their research skills and experience. Applicants must be employed by one of the King’s Health Partners NHS Foundation Trusts (King’s College Hospital NHS FT, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS FT, or South London and Maudsley NHS FT) as registered senior health professionals at consultant level or Band 7 equivalent or above (e.g. nurses, midwives, doctors, dentists, pharmacists, healthcare scientists, psychologists and any other registered professions allied to healthcare). Eligible applicants cannot currently be undertaking any substantial research activity. Projects can range from basic discovery science to translational and applied health research, but must align with the RW-ILS’ research themes. Full details & application process: liver-research.org.uk/grants… Application deadline: 5pm Monday 16th March

Love the new cover of Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology, featuring our Human Cell Atlas roadmap paper, Towards a reference cell atlas of liver diversity over the human lifespan. The article is also currently free to access (with registration) until 24th January.

In June's #EditorsChoice, Laetitia Pinte, @VallierLab & co investigate the function of EHF transcription factor in #LungHomeostasis and #LungDisease. ⚡ doi.org/10.1242/dmm.052532 📰 doi.org/10.1242/dmm.052106

Very happy to host Fotis Sampaziotis (Cambridge Stem Cell Institute) on the 11/11 at BCRT. All are welcome to join. Title: "Deciphering fibrosis in bioengineered organs’" When: 11/11 2025 What: Talk at 1pm Where: Auditorium@Cranach Haus, Föhrer Str. 15, 13353 Berlin

Tomorrow the first Berlin symposium on organoids will take place @ BCRT/BIH/Charite. Program: bihealth.org/en/notices/berl…. I will present a summary of our work on liver organoids. : "Everything you always wanted to know about liver organoids (but you were afraid to ask)".

Looking forward to present the work of the lab at the lac leman regenerative medicine symposium: habiblab.org/l2rm Title of my talk: "CELL-BASED THERAPY AGAINST LIVER DISEASES AND BEYOND". I hope that the beyond got your intrigued, me too.

So, we (Dylan Liabeuf and Anastasiia Maksiuk) are organising the first Berlin symposium on organoids. The objective is to bring together the Berlin organoid community and to develop further interactions. Info: bihealth.org/en/notices/berl… Free registration: bihealth.org/en/news/events/…

The website and the report for the German National Strategy for Gene- and Cell-based Therapies is now available: nationale-strategie-gct.de/e… If you want to know how Germany will develop these key therapies.

Looking forward to join the 10th International Symposium on Primate Research in Kunming from the 15th to 18th of August. The title of my talk: Fibrosis: developmental biology breaking bad. New data showing importance of dev mechanisms in disease. mm.sciconf.cn/en/minisite/in…

Very promising news on the next seven-year EU budget, with a proposed substantial increase for Horizon Europe including the ERC. We are analysing the other parts of this proposal in more detail. @Vonderleyen @EZaharievaEU research-and-innovation.ec.e…

The latest paper @VallierLab is now online. This tour de force from the amazing Laetitia Pinte (supervised by @martavilagonz ) uncover the function of EHF in the lung (not a liver story!) epithelium using hiPSCs, genome editing, and lung organoids. doi.org/10.1242/dmm.052106

Results for ERC advanced grants. UK is back in the lead with 56 funded projects and Germany is second with 35 grants! Success rate 11%. Hopefully the ERC budget will significantly increase to attract scientists from outside EU. erc.europa.eu/news-events/ne…

Drs. Yong He, Yingfen Chen, and Frank Tacke #review current data related to the immunological mechanisms of #MASLD. They summarize the effects of current and experimental therapies on immunoregulation in MASLD. 💊 go.nature.com/3ZTdFh6

Join us today June 4th 1 pm for Irina Mohorianu talk at BCRT* Auditorium on "RoSignOL: Robust Signature of Life A Gene regulatory network-centric collection of robust and scalable frameworks for the analysis of high-throughput datasets" *Föhrer Str. 15, 13353 Berlin

My single-author review is open in Special issue: Extraembryonic tissue in DB - covers issues on human amnion & extraembryonic mesoderm. Hand-drawn Fig1 compares them with mice. *Contact me for seq data in our SciAd paper missed by cyberattack to UnivCam. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

A great collaborative effort from @RSeguiLab’s PhD students Silvio Traba and Lucas Bacigalupo, working with @VallierLab ! 🎉🔬 @agenciaidiar @CONICETDialoga @PancreaticCell #PancreasResearch #DevelopmentalBiology #CienciaArgentina #SinCienciaNoHayFuturo #CienciaEsSoberania

Thrilled to announce a major milestone for our lab @ifibyne @Exactas_UBA — our paper on the glucocorticoid receptor's role in early pancreas development is now published in @Dev_journal! Huge thanks to @VallierLab for this long-term collaboration!👇🧵 🔗 doi.org/10.1242/dev.204361

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Lab gathering today to celebrate a big milestone—our paper on the glucocorticoid receptor’s role in early pancreas development is now accepted in Development! 🎉🔬 More details coming soon! #Science #DevelopmentalBiology