I've started my own lab 🎉
PhD/postdoc positions available - reach out if curious about cerebellum evo-devo and autism spectrum disorders.
We’re based at Uni Tartu, Institute of Genomics (home to Estonian Biobank), and funded by @simonsfoundation.org @embo.org, and the Estonian Research Council.
Different tissue, different questions, same fascination with how cells coordinate to build and rebuild complex organs.
Excited to uncover what drives this remarkable regeneration🙂 @fmiscience.bsky.social | @P.T. Engelhorn Foundation for the Promotion of Biotechnology and Life Sciences
This fellowship will support my work using organoid models and spatial transcriptomics to understand how immune and epithelial cells communicate during this process.
Switching from evo-devo to the regeneration field has been exciting.
Since joining Margherita Turco's lab, I've been studying endometrial regeneration, investigating how the uterine lining breaks down and rebuilds itself every month without scarring.
Starting 2026 with some good news: I've been awarded a Peter and Traudl Engelhorn Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for my research at the Friedrich Miescher Institute!
and @munafomarzia.bsky.social for this beautiful artwork 🙂
Proud to share this recognition with my co-first authors, @Stefano Secchia and @Qianhui Yu, and our supervisor, @graycamplab.bsky.social
Paper: lnkd.in/e_CaEGAS
Grateful for our collaborators who made this great teamwork possible: @Jason Spence | @Craig Lowe | @Barbara Treutlein |@Joep Beumer,
The project set out to understand what makes human guts uniquely human by comparing them to our closest relatives. We created the first chimpanzee intestinal organoid models and used single-cell genomics to map the evolutionary changes that shaped human gut biology.
A nice way to close the chapter on my PhD work: our team was awarded the Bruno Speck Award 2025 by the Swiss Foundation for Haematological Research for our publication on human intestinal evolution.
A summary schematic showing morphogen gradients in the developing human embryo, an overview of two screenings performed in the study (one testing factors related to patterning conditions, another one testing factors related to patterning reproducibility) and icons representing the main readouts of the screenings: organoid cell type composition, measures of morphogen interactions, primary atlas comparison and regulon activity.
Your new batch of cortical organoids resulted in mixed regional identities closer to hindbrain. Why is patterning so hard?😩
✨Our latest paper might help you✨
tinyurl.com/neorgpat
#morphogen #neuralorganoids #patterning #scRNAseq
@graycamplab.bsky.social @ethz.ch @nazbukina.bsky.social
📢 Please help spread the word: We’re hiring a Head of Student & Postdoc Affairs to coordinate our international PhD program, provide guidance & career counseling, lead training programs, collaborate on EDI initiatives, and manage alumni relations. Apply at www.fmi.ch/education-ca...
Lab’s 1st preprint!
Menstruation is understudied due to societal taboos + a biological challenge: mice (a key system for research + drug discovery) don’t menstruate.
@cagricevrim.bsky.social made menstruating mice + used them to discover early events in menstruation.
He is on the job market!
I’m thrilled to share my postdoc work and the first paper from the McKinley Lab! 🎉
@karalmckinley.bsky.social
We built the first transgenic model of menstruation in mice.
We used it to uncover how the endometrium organizes and sheds during menstruation. 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Join us on November 4th!
The winners of our best short talk awards will be telling their research on the @isscr.org stage!
Thank you @stemcellreports.bsky.social for co-organizing this webinar!
This is it. The act of science -like art- is not the output, it is the interaction and the process. What makes us the kind of scientists we are is how we approach the problem 🧪
Final version @science.org "Recent evolution of the developing human intestine affects metabolic and barrier functions". Evolutionary preparation for microbiota, diet, and pathogen exposure is fascinating! Thank you @erc.europa.eu for supporting our vision!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Sharing our newest study led by the incredibly talented @federicamosti.bsky.social investigating new molecular mechanisms of human brain development. We discover a human-specific enhancer HAR1984 that influences chromatin looping to promote cortical size and folding! www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
Altogether, we identify the developing human intestinal epithelium as a rapidly evolving system, and show that great ape #organoids provide insight into human biology. 🙏Thanks 🙏 to all authors! Especially co-first authors: @CY_Qianhui_YU @KlkUmut @stefanosecchia 11/11
Diet/microbes place the gut epithelium as a nexus for evolutionary change. With Jason Spence and Craig Lowe labs we use #organoids to explore how evolution prepared the developing human intestine for exposure to the environment. @science.org #evodevo www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 1/11
💡 What makes humans unique beyond our brains? Grateful for my PhD mentor @graycamplab.bsky.social and generous collaborators @Jason Spence, @Craig Lowe and @Barbara Treutlein and all their lab members made this work possible🙌 and @erc.europa.eu for funding this research!
From Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology to @eth-bsse.bsky.social to Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB) to @umich.edu to IHB, with brilliant co-first authors @Qianhui Yu & Stefano Secchia, we tackled
🚨 After 7 years in the making, my PhD thesis work is finally published in @science.org 🧬✨
What does our gut say about how we became human? During my hitchhiking journey spanning 3 countries and multiple lab moves
My postdoc work at Treutlein lab and @graycamplab.bsky.social with @jasperjanssens.bsky.social is out in @science.org ! We screen for neuron subtypes using pro-neural TFs + morphogen combinations + scRNA-seq and profiled over 700,000 cells in 480 conditions. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Our study on a male-essential microRNA and the evolution of other dosage compensation mechanisms in birds is now out in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Elegant and insightful study on gut evolution and development - congratulations 🎊@graycamplab.bsky.social @umut-kilik.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Thanks Maxime for the kind words🙂
Recent evolution of the developing human intestine affects metabolic and barrier functions @science.org @graycamplab.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
An organoid model of the menstrual cycle reveals the role of the luminal epithelium in regeneration of the human endometrium https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.03.663000v1
Neuron programming! Pro-neural TFs + 480 morphogen conditions + scRNA-seq --> Diverse iN subtypes of forebrain, midbrain, hindbrain, spinal cord, and PNS. @hsiuchuanlin.bsky.social @jasperjanssens.bsky.social and Treutlein Lab! @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #NGN2 #ASCL1
✨Exciting news!✨
The World Endometriosis Research Foundation (#WERF) – Endometriosis Phenome and Biobanking Harmonisation Project (#EPHect) today publishes #SOPs to optimize the use of experimental in vivo and in vitro models in #endometriosis research.
