Our group studies the molecular and systems biology of blood cell development. We focus on T cells and the way they split from other developmental alternatives.

Joined April 2020
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10 Jul 2024
Great, great news! Congratulations, Edith! Congratulations, members of the Crick!
10 Jul 2024
The Crick could not have chosen better. I am looking forward to great things in the Crick's future and can't wait!
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How horribly true! And it's still a rejection when "this has already been shown" is talking about your own paper that you somehow published by that time...
2021 rejection: “it will never work” 2022 rejection: “it will never work” 2023 rejection: “it will never work” 2024 rejection: “this has already been shown” 😂 nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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12 May 2024
Very pleased to see this! Then there really can be true naive T cells in adult people. Then also humans and mice are not so extremely different either. Thanks, @Joshilabyale and @SamuelBHume !
Very interesting study. Fits with previous work from @DonnaFarber3 on thymic T cell output continuing much later in life than we initially thought. The connection to cancer is very interesting.
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2 Mar 2024
And it was transformative to work with @Kueh_Lab when he was in our lab and also the @ElowitzLab. Looking at familiar immune cell types in different ways thru systems biology revealed many deep new insights. Would love to recruit new fellows to follow in @Kueh_Lab 's footsteps!
1 Mar 2024
Thank you Katie! It was an amazing experience to work with @ElowitzLab and also with @evrlab, who opened my eyes to the immune cells and the fate decisions that they make.
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Dear @peiwei_chen , I am ecstatic for you! Congratulations! What a joy it has been to work with you on teaching about stem cells and the immune system, and learning about your own highly creative work with @AlexeiAravin. Cheers, many, many congratulations, and all good luck!!
elated and humbled to get the @WeintraubAward 😊 thanks to my super supportive advisor @AlexeiAravin my committee @Pselaphinae @BronnerMarianne @Angela_Stathop @evrlab and sooooo many other people who have helped me along the way!
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4 Dec 2023
Harald was incredibly important for our field. He had a huge impact and died too young. It is marvelous that they have dedicated the 2024 Midwinter Conference in Immunology to him. He was not my mentor but a huge inspiration. (Had to sneak out of "retirement" for this RT)
Although not part of the conference, it is always touching to see that it is dedicated to a giant in the immunology field and my PhD (and PostDoc) mentor. We all have missed Harald's brilliance...#Immunology mwc2024.org/index.php
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19 Nov 2023
Hi all. Thank you so much for all we've learned from your wonderful posts in the past few years, the joy of sharing our work with you, & your kind words. But I am heartsick about what's happened to this platform lately and think I need to take a break from it. Please be well!
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30 Aug 2023
Thrilling science and wonderful human connections. Congratulations to Alejandro and Britta and to all the participants!
28 Aug 2023
A big thank you again to Alejandro and Britta for organizing! Loved everything: ♟️focus on foundational science ♟️outstanding international participants ♟️trainee-orientedness ♟️informal interactions 'after hours' ♟️social event at Treehouse. FASEB at its very best. Thank you!!
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We're thrilled that our new paper about the intricate ways that Runx factors work to start the T-cell developmental program is out in NI. This is a huge credit to @Boyoungshin who drove the project from start to finish in every way. Please don't miss the supplement-so much there!
Exciting new manuscript from @evrlab demonstrating how Runx proteins accelerate T cell development: nature.com/articles/s41590-0…
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11 Aug 2023
Adorable! But the stamp sheet is way too pretty to use. I guess they want us to buy two, one to keep in a collection. Go zfish!
NIH zebrafish research included in U.S. Postal Service’s “Life Magnified” stamps | National Institutes of Health (NIH). Got to love a Zebrafish stamp!! nih.gov/news-events/news-rel…
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3 Aug 2023
At long, long last!!! HAD to be -- but it's almost been a half-century of deliberate avoidance of looking, don't you think? People still ripping out thymuses at birth -- but Miller & Mitchell wrote in the 1960s - why wasn't this investigated decades ago? Thanks, @ScaddenLab !
There it is, the thymus DOES matter postnatally! Congratulations @ScaddenLab nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…
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15 Jul 2023
A reference cell tree will serve science better than a reference cell ... sciencedirect.com/science/ar… For those of us who are *developmental* molecular biologists, it's great to see this nice commentary in @CellCellPress . Thanks, @JShendure and @sdomcke!

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28 May 2023
Fabulous news! So well-earned, Nina @Nina_CabezasW ! I hope it will be a very happy and rewarding place for you and your lucky students!
🥳 😢 –Wow. @Nina_CabezasW got appointed Full Professor of Stem Cell Biology and Ageing in the Department of Health Sciences and Technology (@ETH_en, Zurich). Congratulations!
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And #ThymOz 2023 turned out to be a great meeting! Kudos to all participants and especially thanks to main organizers Ann Chidgey & Daniel Gray.
Six years since the last #ThymOz and 4 years since we met in person at all. Looking forward to seeing my thymus peeps @UobAnderson @MKALabUofT @JoelSpencerLab @evrlab @taghon_t @DrMvandenBrink (and many others).
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