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Publications Displaying 1 - 20 of 109Last updated : 23 May 2022 03:34 Sox2 levels regulate the chromatin occupancy of WNT mediators in epiblast progenitors responsible for vertebrate body formation Authors (7)Robert Blassberg Harshil Patel Thomas Watson Mina GoutiVicki Metzis M Joaquina DelásJames Briscoe Nature Cell Biology Published 12 May 2022 Crick labs/ facilitiesJames BriscoeBioinformatics and BiostatisticsFlow CytometryAdvanced SequencingFull details Cell-intrinsic aryl hydrocarbon receptor signalling is required for the resolution of injury-induced colonic stem cells Authors (15)Kathleen ShahMurali Maradana M Joaquina Delàs Amina Metidji Frederike Graelmann Miriam Llorian[...]Gavin KellyChris Cheshire Deendyal Bhurta Sandip B BharateBrigitta Stockinger Nature Communications Published 5 April 2022 Crick labs/ facilitiesGitta StockingerNicholas LuscombeJames BriscoeBioinformatics and BiostatisticsLight MicroscopyFlow CytometryExperimental HistopathologyBiological Research FacilityAdvanced SequencingFull details Preprints in Development Authors (1) Seema Grewal Development Published 1 April 2022 Crick labsJames BriscoeFull details Another year of Developments Authors (1) Seema Grewal Development Published 1 January 2022 Crick labsJames BriscoeFull details Free recall scaling laws and short-term memory effects in a latching attractor network Authors (3) Vezha Boboeva Alberto Pezzotta Claudia Clopath Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA Published 7 December 2021 Crick labsJames BriscoeFull details A shared transcriptional code orchestrates temporal patterning of the central nervous system Authors (5)Isabel Zhang Thomas Watson Jorge LazaroManuela MelchiondaJames Briscoe PLOS Biology Published 12 November 2021 Crick labs/ facilitiesJames BriscoeLight MicroscopyGenomics/Equipment ParkFlow CytometryBiological Research FacilityFull details Imaging development, stem cells and regeneration Authors (5) Swathi ArurJames Briscoe Yka Helariutta Thomas Lecuit Liz Robertson Development Published 15 September 2021 Crick labsJames BriscoeFull details How development supports early career researchers Authors (2)James Briscoe Seema Grewal Development Published 1 October 2021 Crick labsJames BriscoeFull details Statistically derived geometrical landscapes capture principles of decision-making dynamics during cell fate transitions Authors (6)Meritxell Saez CornellanaRobert Blassberg Elena Camacho-Aguilar Eric D Siggia David A RandJames Briscoe Cell systems Published 19 January 2022 Crick labs/ facilitiesJames BriscoeScientific computingFlow CytometryFull details Integration of spatial and single-cell transcriptomic data elucidates mouse organogenesis Authors (20) T Lohoff S Ghazanfar A Missarova N Koulena N Pierson JA Griffiths[...] B Göttgens W Reik J Nichols L Cai JC Marioni Nature Biotechnology Published 1 January 2022 Crick labsJames BriscoeFull details Single cell transcriptome profiling of the human developing spinal cord reveals a conserved genetic programme with human specific features Authors (4)Teresa Rayon AlonsoRory Maizels Christopher BarringtonJames Briscoe Development Published 16 July 2021 Crick labs/ facilitiesJames BriscoeBioinformatics and BiostatisticsScientific computingExperimental HistopathologyAdvanced SequencingFull details Ventricular, atrial, and outflow tract heart progenitors arise from spatially and molecularly distinct regions of the primitive streak Authors (9) Pablo Soro-Barrio Probir ChakravartyRebecca JonesDonald Bell S Neda Mousavy GharavyDespina StamatakiJulien DelileJim SmithJames Briscoe PLOS Biology Published 17 May 2021 Crick labs/ facilitiesJim SmithJames BriscoeLight MicroscopyBioinformatics and BiostatisticsBiological Research FacilityAdvanced SequencingFull details Cross-species comparisons and in vitro models to study tempo in development and homeostasis Authors (1)James Briscoe Interface focus Published 6 June 2021 Crick labsJames BriscoeFull details Human embryo research beyond the primitive streak Authors (5) Insoo Hyun Annelien L BredenoordJames Briscoe Sigal Klipstein Tao Tan Science Published 5 March 2021 Crick labsJames BriscoeFull details Precision of tissue patterning is controlled by dynamical properties of gene regulatory networks Authors (7)Katherine Exelby Lorena Garcia Perez Ruben Perez-CarrascoAndreas SagnerVicki Metzis Peter SollichJames Briscoe Development Published 25 February 2021 Crick labs/ facilitiesJames BriscoeScientific computingFlow CytometryBiological Research FacilityFull details Virtual meeting, real and sound science: report of the 17th Meeting of the Spanish Society for Developmental Biology (SEBD-2020) Authors (18) Sofia J Araújo Isabel Almudi Laura Bozal-Basterra Fernando Casares Sergio Casas-Tintó Augusto Escalante[...]Teresa Rayon Alonso James Sharpe James D Sutherland Cristina Villa del Campo Rosa Barrio The International Journal of Developmental Biology Published 1 July 2021 Crick labsJames BriscoeFull details Zooming into 2021 Authors (1) Katherine Brown Development Published 1 January 2021 Crick labsJames BriscoeFull details TRF2-independent chromosome end protection during pluripotency Authors (13)Philip Ruis David Van LyValerie Borel Georgia R KaferAfshan Mccarthy Steven Howell[...]James BriscoeKathy NiakanPaulina Marzec Anthony J CesareSimon Boulton Nature Published 7 January 2021 Crick labs/ facilitiesKathy NiakanJames BriscoeSimon BoultonProteomicsGenetic Modification ServiceBiological Research FacilityFull details The nonlinearity of life Authors (2)Edgar Herrera Delgado Peter Sollich Europhysics News Published 1 September 2020 Crick labsJames BriscoeFull details Local retinoic acid signaling directs emergence of the extraocular muscle functional unit Authors (20) Glenda Evangelina Comai Markéta Tesařová Valerie Dupé Muriel Rhinn Pedro Vallecillo-García Fabio da Silva[...]James Briscoe Andreas Schedl Norbert B Ghyselinck Ronen Schweitzer Shahragim Tajbakhsh PLOS Biology 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Sox2 levels regulate the chromatin occupancy of WNT mediators in epiblast progenitors responsible for vertebrate body formation Authors (7)Robert Blassberg Harshil Patel Thomas Watson Mina GoutiVicki Metzis M Joaquina DelásJames Briscoe Nature Cell Biology Published 12 May 2022 Crick labs/ facilitiesJames BriscoeBioinformatics and BiostatisticsFlow CytometryAdvanced SequencingFull details
Cell-intrinsic aryl hydrocarbon receptor signalling is required for the resolution of injury-induced colonic stem cells Authors (15)Kathleen ShahMurali Maradana M Joaquina Delàs Amina Metidji Frederike Graelmann Miriam Llorian[...]Gavin KellyChris Cheshire Deendyal Bhurta Sandip B BharateBrigitta Stockinger Nature Communications Published 5 April 2022 Crick labs/ facilitiesGitta StockingerNicholas LuscombeJames BriscoeBioinformatics and BiostatisticsLight MicroscopyFlow CytometryExperimental HistopathologyBiological Research FacilityAdvanced SequencingFull details
Preprints in Development Authors (1) Seema Grewal Development Published 1 April 2022 Crick labsJames BriscoeFull details
Another year of Developments Authors (1) Seema Grewal Development Published 1 January 2022 Crick labsJames BriscoeFull details
Free recall scaling laws and short-term memory effects in a latching attractor network Authors (3) Vezha Boboeva Alberto Pezzotta Claudia Clopath Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA Published 7 December 2021 Crick labsJames BriscoeFull details
A shared transcriptional code orchestrates temporal patterning of the central nervous system Authors (5)Isabel Zhang Thomas Watson Jorge LazaroManuela MelchiondaJames Briscoe PLOS Biology Published 12 November 2021 Crick labs/ facilitiesJames BriscoeLight MicroscopyGenomics/Equipment ParkFlow CytometryBiological Research FacilityFull details
Imaging development, stem cells and regeneration Authors (5) Swathi ArurJames Briscoe Yka Helariutta Thomas Lecuit Liz Robertson Development Published 15 September 2021 Crick labsJames BriscoeFull details
How development supports early career researchers Authors (2)James Briscoe Seema Grewal Development Published 1 October 2021 Crick labsJames BriscoeFull details
Statistically derived geometrical landscapes capture principles of decision-making dynamics during cell fate transitions Authors (6)Meritxell Saez CornellanaRobert Blassberg Elena Camacho-Aguilar Eric D Siggia David A RandJames Briscoe Cell systems Published 19 January 2022 Crick labs/ facilitiesJames BriscoeScientific computingFlow CytometryFull details
Integration of spatial and single-cell transcriptomic data elucidates mouse organogenesis Authors (20) T Lohoff S Ghazanfar A Missarova N Koulena N Pierson JA Griffiths[...] B Göttgens W Reik J Nichols L Cai JC Marioni Nature Biotechnology Published 1 January 2022 Crick labsJames BriscoeFull details
Single cell transcriptome profiling of the human developing spinal cord reveals a conserved genetic programme with human specific features Authors (4)Teresa Rayon AlonsoRory Maizels Christopher BarringtonJames Briscoe Development Published 16 July 2021 Crick labs/ facilitiesJames BriscoeBioinformatics and BiostatisticsScientific computingExperimental HistopathologyAdvanced SequencingFull details
Ventricular, atrial, and outflow tract heart progenitors arise from spatially and molecularly distinct regions of the primitive streak Authors (9) Pablo Soro-Barrio Probir ChakravartyRebecca JonesDonald Bell S Neda Mousavy GharavyDespina StamatakiJulien DelileJim SmithJames Briscoe PLOS Biology Published 17 May 2021 Crick labs/ facilitiesJim SmithJames BriscoeLight MicroscopyBioinformatics and BiostatisticsBiological Research FacilityAdvanced SequencingFull details
Cross-species comparisons and in vitro models to study tempo in development and homeostasis Authors (1)James Briscoe Interface focus Published 6 June 2021 Crick labsJames BriscoeFull details
Human embryo research beyond the primitive streak Authors (5) Insoo Hyun Annelien L BredenoordJames Briscoe Sigal Klipstein Tao Tan Science Published 5 March 2021 Crick labsJames BriscoeFull details
Precision of tissue patterning is controlled by dynamical properties of gene regulatory networks Authors (7)Katherine Exelby Lorena Garcia Perez Ruben Perez-CarrascoAndreas SagnerVicki Metzis Peter SollichJames Briscoe Development Published 25 February 2021 Crick labs/ facilitiesJames BriscoeScientific computingFlow CytometryBiological Research FacilityFull details
Virtual meeting, real and sound science: report of the 17th Meeting of the Spanish Society for Developmental Biology (SEBD-2020) Authors (18) Sofia J Araújo Isabel Almudi Laura Bozal-Basterra Fernando Casares Sergio Casas-Tintó Augusto Escalante[...]Teresa Rayon Alonso James Sharpe James D Sutherland Cristina Villa del Campo Rosa Barrio The International Journal of Developmental Biology Published 1 July 2021 Crick labsJames BriscoeFull details
Zooming into 2021 Authors (1) Katherine Brown Development Published 1 January 2021 Crick labsJames BriscoeFull details
TRF2-independent chromosome end protection during pluripotency Authors (13)Philip Ruis David Van LyValerie Borel Georgia R KaferAfshan Mccarthy Steven Howell[...]James BriscoeKathy NiakanPaulina Marzec Anthony J CesareSimon Boulton Nature Published 7 January 2021 Crick labs/ facilitiesKathy NiakanJames BriscoeSimon BoultonProteomicsGenetic Modification ServiceBiological Research FacilityFull details
The nonlinearity of life Authors (2)Edgar Herrera Delgado Peter Sollich Europhysics News Published 1 September 2020 Crick labsJames BriscoeFull details
Local retinoic acid signaling directs emergence of the extraocular muscle functional unit Authors (20) Glenda Evangelina Comai Markéta Tesařová Valerie Dupé Muriel Rhinn Pedro Vallecillo-García Fabio da Silva[...]James Briscoe Andreas Schedl Norbert B Ghyselinck Ronen Schweitzer Shahragim Tajbakhsh PLOS Biology Published 17 November 2020 Crick labsJames BriscoeFull details