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@AlejandroAgCa

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🇲🇽 Ex utero embryogenesis and stem-cell embryo models. 1st gen scientist. Group Leader at 4DCP department, HHMI Janelia, USA.

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@AlejandroAgCa

Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

2 years

I feel really honored of receiving the Angelika Amon Young Scientist Award from MIT, specially as a 1st generation graduate student from a low-income family in Mexico. This was only possible thanks to the efforts of my family, and also the support of my advisor @jacob_hanna

@kochinstitute

Koch Institute at MIT

2 years

Cheers to the winners of the Angelika Amon Young Scientist Award, @alejandroagca @weizmannscience & @melanietalata @impvienna ! The award recognizes life sciences grad students from outside the US who embody an infectious enthusiasm for discovery science

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

5 months

Embryo coffe at my new home @HHMIJanelia . I'm beyond excited to open my lab at such amazing institution.

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

3 years

Thrilled to share that our paper describing a platform for growing the mouse embryo from pre-gastrulation to advanced organogenesis is out today on Nature!

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

2 years

Super happy to see our work out today in Cell.

@jacob_hanna

Jacob (يعقوب) Hanna

2 years

Our crazy journey on this continues - New Hanna lab @CellCellPress paper is out: "Post-Gastrulation Synthetic Embryos Generated Ex Utero Solely from Mouse Naïve ESCs" by the amazing @TaraziShadi @AlejandroAgCa @carinejoubran @noashefi & @MazaItay

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

3 years

Excited to be presenting this Friday 25th my recent work on ex utero culture of mouse embryos #ISSCR2021 . Join for the Theme Session MDD 4 Modelling Development. I am honoured to have received the Zhongmei Chen Award for Scientific Excellence and Abstract Merit Award

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

2 years

I had a blast traveling to MIT for the Angelika Amon young scientist award ceremony. It was a dream to present my work at the Luria auditorium at the Kock Institute, and to meet so many amazing scientists. Thanks to Angelika's family and MIT for this opportunity!

@kochinstitute

Koch Institute at MIT

2 years

“Today I could see some of the same love and passion for science that I saw in Angelika, and that just what we wanted to capture.” The KI celebrates Alejandro Aguilera Castrejón and Melanie de Almeida, winners of the Angelika Amon Young Scientist Award.

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

3 years

Nice to see our work (and one of my embryo images) featured in the latest Nature Outlook: The next frontier of human embryo research

@jacob_hanna

Jacob (يعقوب) Hanna

3 years

Latest Nature outlook issue feature: "The next frontier for human embryo research"

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

3 years

Join us for the next public journal club this Saturday

@PJCDevBio

Public Journal Club Developmental Biology

3 years

MOUSE EMBRYOS CAN NOW BE GROWN IN A BOTTLE?! Join us this saturday to discuss this major breakthrough with @AlejandroAgCa from the @jacob_hanna ´s lab ! 👇 1/10

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

3 years

One of the problems for scientist with 2 last names

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

3 years

Everything is thanks to you Jacob!

@jacob_hanna

Jacob (يعقوب) Hanna

3 years

Super proud of my student @AlejandroAgCa for receiving the 2021 Dan David Prize for PhD students. Watch out from him..he is only getting started! @DanDavidPrize @WeizmannScience

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

2 years

Amazing work from Ebisuya lab that opens many new possibilities.

@EbisuyaMiki

Miki Ebisuya

2 years

New paper from the lab! We developed an optogenetic tool, OptoShroom3, to induce apical constriction in illuminated cells(left). By controlling cell shapes, OptoShroom3 can induce tissue shape changes, including lumen shrinkage of neural organoids(right).

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

3 years

"I have always been proud to use my two surnames, honoring both of my parents and my cultural heritage"

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

3 years

It will be an honor to present in the conference with the best flyer ever! Don't miss the chance to register to YEN2021

@YEN_community

Young Embryologist Network

3 years

Last week to register for #YEN2021 ⚠️ Don't miss the chance to e-meet other early career researchers in the #devbio field

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

3 years

Thanks a lot for your kind words Rudra!

@Rudra_nayan

Rudra Nayan Das

3 years

@WeizmannScience picked up another award for the famous ex utero mouse embryogenesis work @AlejandroAgCa Many congratulations!

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

3 years

Thanks to @TomhShani for the analysis

@satijalab

Rahul Satija

3 years

Remarkable overlap between scRNA-seq data of in utero and ex utero (!) mouse embryogenesis

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

5 months

@jacob_hanna @HHMIJanelia Thanks Jacob. We will see each other again in few days though. You will not get rid of me so easily! 😉

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

3 years

Gracias a la Secretaría de Educación Pública de México por la entrevista y por interesarse en mi trabajo.

@SEP_mx

SEP México

3 years

Poder ver nuestras células fuera del organismo nos revelaría importante información sobre nuestra salud. 👉 #SEP_Reconoce a Alejandro Aguilera, un estudiante mexicano que desarrolla estudios al respecto en el @WeizmannScience .

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

3 years

Great review covering mechanical regulation of early vertebrate embryogenesis

@NatRevMCB

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

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Now Online Mechanical regulation of early vertebrate embryogenesis

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

2 years

Great discussion about our recent paper on stem cell synthetic embryos, building on our paper from last year. Thanks @stemcellpodcast

@stemcellpodcast

Stem Cell Podcast

@stemcellpodcast

2 years

This week, we talk about a groundbreaking @CellCellPress paper from Dr. @Jacob_Hanna 's group! 🤯 They generated synthetic mouse embryos ex utero from ESCs! @Shadi_Tarazi @AlejandroAgCa @Carinejoubran Article: Discussion:

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

6 years

3 papers from the Weizmann Institute are out this month in Cell

@CellCellPress

Cell

6 years

Our new issue is live! With many #microbiome papers: including the diverse microbiome of plant roots, how moving to the US westernizes the microbiome, and how a gut microbiota metabolite in type 2 #diabetes impairs glucose tolerance and insulin signalling

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

2 years

Glad to see the nice the coverage done by Science news about our recent paper:

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

3 years

Happy to see our work considered for the people's breakthrough of the year.

@ScienceMagazine

Science Magazine

@ScienceMagazine

3 years

Health and Medicine: Choose your favorite. ⬇

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

2 years

Amazing work by the Alev lab. Congrats!

@alevlab

Alev Lab

2 years

Happy to share our paper on in vitro human somitogenesis @Nature Fantastic effort of @Yamanaka5e @Hamidi_Sofiane4 @KobayashiKumiko and others in @alevlab @Ashbi_KyotoU . Many thx to awesome collaborators in Japan & abroad @nmoris @AMartinezArias ! #axioloids

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

3 years

Great review on stem cell-embryo models

@jvveenvliet

jesse veenvliet

3 years

Very happy to have this one out in @Dev_journal ! How can models of embryo development teach us how mammalian embryos take shape? . First @teamstembryo @mpicbg Review, together w/ @Equipe_lenne @da40cambs @IftachN @viktri08 . #stembryo #gastruloids 🧵 (1/7)

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

2 years

@KarinaYaniv Muchas gracias por tan bonitas palabras!

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

3 years

@AdlungLab @jacob_hanna Thanks a lot Lorenz!

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

2 years

A note about our work published now in The Guardian.

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

9 months

@AlexandreMayran CongratsAlex, such a great work!

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

2 years

@AlejoFraticelli @jacob_hanna @CellCellPress @Carinejoubran @noashefi @MazaItay Muchas gracias Alejo!

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

2 years

@alevlab @jacob_hanna Thanks a lot Cantas.

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

8 years

My first paper as first author #springerlink

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

2 years

@ZelzerLab @SarahRu63600780 Congratulations Sarah!

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

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@maayanvisuals @jacob_hanna @raptorrobb @CellCellPress Thanks for your amazing work Maayan!

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

2 years

@AIneurolab @aussiebiologist Hi Angelo. The difference is that we made an electronic controller device and gas mixing and pressurising box that control many parameters of the device, otherwise the embryos cannot be grown for several days. We also found the media termed EUCM that is crucial for this.

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

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@AshleyNAbel @jacob_hanna Same! It was so nice meeting you Ashley and all the others!

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

3 years

@ivan__velasco @jacob_hanna Muchas gracias Dr. Iván!

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

5 years

Fantastic work by my friend, flatmate and colleague from both the bachelor in biology at UNAM and graduate school at Weizmann. Published in @CellCellPress

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Schraga Schwartz

@SchragaSchwartz

5 years

Delighted to share our latest work by @FangOokami and Sarit Edelheit, in which we develop a quantitative, antibody independent method for mapping m6A, to reveal that RNA methylation is, to a considerable extent, hard coded.

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@raptorrobb @maayanvisuals Thanks a lot for working with us Rob!

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

3 years

@UniNoticias @julio_godinez Mil gracias a Julio por interesarse en mi trabajo!

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

4 years

The most amazing conference poster ever!!

@YEN_community

Young Embryologist Network

5 years

Are you an #EarlyCareerResearcher interested in developmental biology & stem cells? Save the date and register for our next #YENconference ! We hope this poster will help you remember the date: May the 4th. Registration is free! Travel grants are available

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

2 years

@JoseAVillegas Muchas gracias José!

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

1 year

@Jalberizo @DrKimDavenport @TheTomSpencer @amk1017 Congrats Jason! Great work!

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

4 years

The inability to cover costs of living with a PhD scholarship is one of the reasons why I didn't even think about doing a PhD in the US.

@fictionalizer

youngster of anti-Zion

4 years

I'm an international PhD candidate. @UCSC pays me ~$20k/year 70% of which goes to rent. I am one of 54 grad workers who got fired today for striking. Not only admin exacerbated our financial situation, the reason we went on strike, but my visa status may be jeopardized now.

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

3 years

@Giulsboezio @___SDB___ Thanks a lot Giulia!

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

3 years

@paraspeckle @jacob_hanna Thanks a lot for your kind words Miha 🙏

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

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@KurianLab Thanks a lot for the kind words Leo!

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

3 years

@Muneef_Ayyash Thanks a lot Muneef!!

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@DiegoConCalma @jacob_hanna Thanks a lot Diego!

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

2 years

@johanna_gassler @ScienceMagazine @WataKobayashi @SiwatChad Congratulations Johanna! Super nice work!!

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

3 years

@spiffyscientist Woow! I appreciate a lot your kind words!

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@nishanthdv @J_A_C_S Congratulations Nishanth! 👏

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

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@Marta_Shahbazi Congratulations for the great work Martha! Looking forward to reading it.

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

1 year

@AMartinezArias Super interesting! Too bad the registration deadline was days ago.

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

2 years

@AIneurolab @aussiebiologist See image of the whole setup and methods detailed in the paper.

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@ASolmonson Congratulations Ashley! Looking forward to working with you and for the amazing science that will come out from your lab.

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

5 years

@transavia Yesterday I was denied to board the flight from Nantes to Tel Aviv by the transavia personnel, even when I hold a Israeli student visa valid until June 2020. They falsely argued that I needed to have a flight out of Israel. But no airline ever asked me for that.

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

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@Ohnolog @ScienceMagazine Congrats Phil! I saw Alex a few weeks presenting your work here at Janelia. It's great to see it published, amazing work 👏

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

3 years

@eugecc @NewsfromScience Thanks a lot for your words Eugenio!

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

3 years

@AshleyNAbel @ArunSharmaPhD Thanks a lot for your nice words!!

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

2 years

@ivan__velasco Muchas gracias Dr. Iván!

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1 year

@aguzm9 @YanlanMao @LabRawlins @_Priya_R Muchas felicidades Ale!

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

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@FerrousChiko @MakASaito Congratulations Ichiko! 🎊 🥳🥳

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Alejandro Aguilera Castrejon

2 years

@GarciaCamposM @Shadi_Tarazi @SShiokhi @haddad_montaser @segevnaveh Gracias Miguel!!

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