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Scientist @Cambridge & @Caltech trying to build life from stem cells to understand it better. The author of #TheDanceofLife . Warsaw/Cambridge/LA. Art @BBBPACK

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

2 years

After building embryoids for 10 years, we succeeded in generating structures with brains, hearts, neural tubes, somites with a yolk sac. Both original submissions using two different approaches are on BioRxiv, to be published soon.

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Stem cell-derived mouse embryos develop within an extra-embryonic yolk sac to form anterior brain...

Embryo-like structures generated from stem cells can achieve varying developmental milestones, but none have been shown to progress through gastrulation, neurulation, and organogenesis.[1][1]–[7][2]...

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

2 years

Our paper is finally out! After 10 years of model building we generate complete embryoids from three types of stem cells - they develop heart, brain structures and more. We show the first proof of concept knocking out a gene required for neurodevelopment

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Embryo model completes gastrulation to neurulation and organogenesis

Nature - Synthetic mouse embryos assembled from embryonic stem cells, trophoblast stem cells and induced extraembryonic endoderm stem cells closely recapitulate the development of wild-type and...

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

5 months

What is the origin of our body? Our paper @CellCellPress shows that when a human embryo is one day old and comprises just two cells, only one cell will create most of the fetus in addition to placenta, while the other cell will create placenta.

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The first two blastomeres contribute unequally to the human embryo

Labeling and live imaging of human embryos reveal that the majority of the future body originates, mostly, from one of the 2-cell stage blastomeres. Descendants of the first 2-cell stage blastomere...

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

3 years

We are hiring an expert in live embryo imaging! If you are interested in early mouse and human development and would like to look at it in a new way, please contact me.

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As someone who’s been mentoring future PIs for a while, I often get asked how I choose post-docs for my lab and if I have a crystal ball for predicting their success. Well, here is the scoop: I don’t! But here are some things I look for: (1/8)

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

4 years

Happy and honoured to receive this year Pioneer Award @NIH . Very greatful to my @MZG_Lab , @Caltech , @Cambridge_Uni and my wonderful mentors John Gurdon and Martin Evans @GurdonInstitute

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

3 years

I’m deeply honored to be chosen to deserve Conklin Medal this year. Special thanks to my amazing team of brilliant scientists at @Caltech and @Cambridge_Uni @PDN_Cambridge

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Society for Developmental Biology

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Congrats to Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz @ZernickaGoetz @Caltech @Cambridge on receiving the 2022 SDB Edwin G. Conklin Medal for illuminating mechanisms of early mammalian embryogenesis through innovative techniques culturing post-implantation stage embryos.

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

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First Human Blastoids @Caltech . Our long journey from mouse to human - it is 7 years since our first mouse prototype was published. Thanks to the first authors @BernaSozen_ and my first PhD student @Caltech Victoria

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Reconstructing human early embryogenesis in vitro with pluripotent stem cells

Understanding human development is of fundamental biological and clinical importance. Yet despite its significance, insights into early developmental events in humans still remain largely unknown....

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

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We are looking for postdoctoral colleague to study cell fate choices using lights sheet and 2photon imaging of mouse natural and stem cell-derived embryos in California @Caltech . If you are interested, pls send me a message. Please RT.

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Very happy I can finally share our experience with human blastoids. Beautiful morphology but EPES cells have limitations in lineage specification. Reconstructing aspects of human embryogenesis with pluripotent stem cells | Nature Communications

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

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Finally we can share in full our long journey from mouse & human embryo implantation 10 years ago, through many mouse models, to this human embryo model. A decade long but a beautiful & fulfilling journey with wonderful people, too many to mention all here

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Pluripotent stem cell-derived model of the post-implantation human embryo

Nature - Co-culture of wild-type human embryonic stem cells with two types of extraembryonic-like cell engineered to overexpress specific transcription factors results in an embryoid model that...

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The role of basement membrane remodelling in embryo growth and - unexpectedly! - pre-pattering for gastrulation. Million thanks to my most wonderful colleagues @KyprianouChr @NeophChr @LSE_Angela @Migeotte @drrshamilton for beautiful work

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

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1. I am an immigrant who came from communist-era Poland to the UK and then the US in a search of a more open, unfettered life. In Warsaw, even though my first home was a laboratory, I would have never dreamed that one day I would become a professor at Cambridge and Caltech.

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

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Developmental clock and mechanism of de novo polarization started 7 years ago with the last 4 yrs critical. It took 2 yrs from the first submission. Each year ⁦ @zhumeng123 ⁩ expanded the work and ⁦ @jake_cs_ ⁩ added modelling. It feels so special.

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

1 year

So delighted to share our human embryo-like model that was published today @Nature We used it to study cross-talk between embryonic and extraembryonic cells in human embryos to generate amnion and PGC-like cells. Thanks to Bailey & Carlos in our lab for their hard work & insight

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

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This honor means so much to me. Shinya Yamanaka is one of my heroes, and it’s incredible to be appreciated by my colleagues in his legacy for the research that I’ve devoted my life to. Thank you to all of my ex and current lab members, many will join me on the day.

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Gladstone Institutes

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz will be presented the 2023 Ogawa-Yamanaka Stem Cell Prize later this month. Read more about her work and why she was selected for the prize

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

1 year

I am so honored for this recognition and grateful for having such an incredible lab and collaborators and the unwavering support of family

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Gladstone Institutes

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🎉Congrats to Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz ( @ZernickaGoetz ), winner of the 2023 Ogawa-Yamanaka Stem Cell Prize! 🎉 @CellStemCell @Caltech @PDN_Cambridge @Cambridge_Uni Read more about her work:

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

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Very happy to share our human embryo model. We generated human yolk sac stem cells and put them together with ES cells to study embryonic-extra embryonic interactions and specification of anterior patterning feel proud of my whole team and collaborators

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An in vitro stem cell model of human epiblast and yolk sac interaction

Human yolk sac-like cells, which share characteristics with the post-implantation human hypoblast, can model the interaction between the epiblast and hypoblast that occurs during early human develo...

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

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Our study on human embryos identifying the symmetry breaking event to specify anterior is out! Thanks to my wonderful lab,superb collaborators,parents who donated embryos ⁦ @MZG_Lab ⁩ ⁦ @roserventotormo ⁩ ⁦ @TimCoorens ⁩⁦ @Cambridge_Uni ⁩

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

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@DrNadiaChaudhri Nadia, you became the sun and the moon of my life over the last months. Before I start my day and before I end it, I check for your messages. However, small and big, they warm my heart to you.

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Reflecting on a decade’s journey from concept to reality, truly humbled to see work in embryo culture and in vitro assembly honored as „Method of the Year” by Nature Methods. Pioneering this path was a collaborative dream - never did we imagine such remarkable recognition

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Nature Methods

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Our Method of the Year 2023 celebrates recent methods for modeling development! #moty2023 In a Comment, @ZernickaGoetz takes an in-depth look into the most recent embryo models that have been reported.

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

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I’m excited to announce that we are looking for a Post-Doc. If you are excited about stem cells, embryos and live imaging and want to make impact in biology and medicine, join us! Tweet or email me. Please RT.

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How embryos tell time has been in my mind for 20 yrs. To answer this we had to develop many tools, from clonal overexpression & lineage tracing to simultaneous KO of several genes in embryos. It paid off ⁦⁦ @Caltech ⁩ ⁦⁦⁦ @Cambridge_Uni ⁩

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How an embryo tells time

It is estimated that the majority of pregnancies that fail do so within the first seven days after fertilization, before the embryo implants into the uterus. In this time period, a complicated...

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Thank you @Nature for featuring our work about how the very first division of the fertilized egg makes a lopsided contribution to the body’s organs and tissues.

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Human embryos embrace asymmetry to form the body

Nature - The cells generated by the very first division of the fertilized egg make a lopsided contribution to the body’s organs and tissues.

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

3 years

My beautiful daughter turns 20 today. But for me she is still the same girl she was 20 years ago. I love you Tashi ❤️

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4 years

Visited Heffers in Cambridge today and was surprised to find my book with ⁦ @RogerHighfield ⁩. Signed all copies. Honoured to find myself next to ⁦ @ottolenghi ⁩ !

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

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We are looking for a Lab Manger in our lab at Caltech, California. If you would like to help us run the lab and participate in some experiments too and have lab experience, please get in touch with me by email. The specifics are posted on the Caltech website.

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My Division - Biology and Bioengineering- at Caltech is seeking to make multiple Faculty appointments on different levels. A broad call in an amazing place with rays of sunshine every day. To apply:

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Hip hip hurray! So excited about modeling embryos from stem cells being chosen as the method of the year 2023 by @Nature and our floating embryos being on the cover of this special issue

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Nature Methods

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It's that time of year!! 🎉We are so excited to announce our 2023 pick for Nature Methods' Method of the Year: methods for modeling development. Read the Editorial to find out why we chose this as our pick. #moty2023

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

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I miss Lewis Wolpert already. I will ever remember the sparkle of warmth and joy in his eyes. He asked me 15 years ago how many cells the mouse embryo needs to survive. We addressed it with @morris_lab and dedicated the paper to him. The number is 4.

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5 years

Waiting for an interconnecting flight to SDB

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

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We are looking for two new post-docs. One project is to work on early human embryo development and the other, on early mouse embryos and live imaging. If you are interested, contact me please RT

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How the human embryo polarises - out today! Work started in my lab @Cambridge_Uni and completed in our new lab @Caltech . Many friends and colleagues helped us to complete experiments during Covid closure and setting up the new lab. I am so grateful to all

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Human embryo polarization requires PLC signaling to mediate trophectoderm specification

Functional analyses of in vitro fertilized, preimplanation human embryos reveal that the first lineage segregation depends on cell polarization signaling that is regulated by Phospholipase C (PLC)...

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

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We have got a new program grant for our stem cell and embryo work and are looking for a staff scientist, post-doc and research technician. Proper advert out soon but for now contact magdaz @caltech .edu

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

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So excited that my book #TheDanceofLife with @RogerHighfield has come out in Poland! Our book is about my journey as a women in STEM and my research. But more importantly it is devoted to women’s rights and what we know and still need to learn about the beginnings of our lives.

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First celebration this summer in Cambridge for our human embryo stem cell model accepted in eLife. From the first submission took app. 2 years .. and many extra experiments. So proud of my team and especially Kirsty, Bailey and Marta here and wonderful collaborators Roser & Sam

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2 years

This is our embryo model no5. Very similar to our model no4 published 2 weeks ago but now derived exclusively from stem cells that we programmed to specific fates. Huge thanks to 3 years of work from amazing PhD student Kasey & collaborators Hernan & Yonatan (not on Twitter)

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Cell Stem Cell

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New paper alert: Mouse embryo model derived exclusively from embryonic stem cells undergoes neurulation and heart development. From @ZernickaGoetz @MZG_Lab and colleagues-

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

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In response to recent media on my group’s research, I would like to clarify that our goal was not to make headlines but to share our research with the community. We cannot control how the news reports our discoveries, but we are grateful for the interest & constructive comments.

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In this Women in Science week I wish to celebrate Kasey, my PhD student who started our zoom meeting by saying, I have great news for you and showed me the result we so much hoped for. Well done, Kasey 👏👏👏👏👏

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I appreciate people who try to excel in their own projects but also engage generously with others in the lab and our collaborators. Teamwork makes the dream work! (3/8)

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

4 years

Our new paper brings insight into developmental potential of aneuploid human embryos beyond implantation until day 9. It won’t be possible without colleagues ⁦ @IVIclinics ⁩ ⁦ @thermanetwork ⁩ and my ⁦ @MZG_Lab ⁩ being amazing!! Thank YOU

Developmental potential of aneuploid human embryos cultured beyond implantation

Nature Communications - Aneuploidy, abnormal chromosome number, is a major cause of early pregnancy loss. Here the authors determine the extent of post-implantation development of human embryos...

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

1 year

Here is our pre-print that we deposited at the same time - we are very happy to share our human embryo model that allows us to study a cross-talk between the tissues in the second week of our life. Wonderful collaboration with many amazing scientists in my lab and friends outside

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Bailey Weatherbee

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Pleased to share our recent work generating a human embryoid model. In light of recent press coverage which has unfortunately sensationalized our unpublished results, we feel it is necessary to provide a version of our data as soon as possible. 1/

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

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The discovery of GFP by Shimomura changed my life in 1995 when i took a trip from Warsaw to join the lab of Martin Evans in Cambridge to establish GFP as a marker for gene expression and cell lineage. I am still on this journey :) I owe so much to Shimomura and many others

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The Nobel Prize

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"I learned that any difficult problem can be solved by great effort." Remembering Osamu Shimomura, born #OTD in 1928, who dedicated his life to studying the bioluminescence of the luminous jellyfish Aequorea, and discovered green fluorescent protein, GFP.

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I look for thoughtful scientists who enjoy rolling up their sleeves and doing experiments themselves, rather than delegating everything to technicians. (4/8)

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

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We are opening a new Stem Cell and Embryo Engineering Center at Caltech to establish state-of-the art mammalian embryo research and looking for a Director. For more information please see below or contact me by email

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

4 years

My most wonderful daughter is 19 today - where has all of the time gone? Happy Birthday Natalia @NatZernicka ❤️❤️❤️

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3 years

It was honor and fun to act as an editor for this special issue of Dev Biol Development and Synthetic Embryology rocks!!! @Dev_Bio_Journal

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Developmental Biology

@Dev_Bio_Journal

3 years

#DBfeatures #DBSpecialIssue #SyntheticEmbryology Check it out! Thank you @ZernickaGoetz for a wonderful collection of research articles! 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

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We are of course excited about our embryo-like model but wish to stress that it is important not to think of our embryo-model as being a real embryo - even if it is getting close to the real thing

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May your days and nights be bright and full of light, from ⁦ @MZG_Lab ⁩ Christmas embryos by Charlotte Hanford

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I’m drawn to those who have a genuine passion for science and a love of discovery. (2/8)

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I’ve been presenting our human stem cell embryo model, derived from programmed human ESCs, at conferences for a few years and last year, we finally published it. Now we’re excited to share a detailed protocol how to create these models #StemCellResearch

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Assembly of a stem cell-derived human postimplantation embryo model

Nature Protocols - Protocol for the generation of a stem cell-derived human postimplantation embryo model by the combination of embryonic and transgene-induced extraembryonic-like cells.

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

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We are very excited to share our findings on which cell to cell signaling interactions are crucial in the postimplantation human embryo in vitro. Thank you so much @NatureCellBio

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Nature Cell Biology

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💫NEW: @BailWeatherbee @A_Weberling @_carlosgantner_ et al. find contrasting BMP requirements in mouse and human anterior signaling center & #preimplantation #epiblast and that NOTCH may be indispensable for human epiblast survival. @ZernickaGoetz @MZGLab

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It has been my dream to address this question since my lab discovered a similar cell fate imbalance in the 2-cell stage mouse embryo 20 years ago. At the time, this was controversial and went against the dogma causing me nearly to lose my lab that only just, just started.

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

4 years

Thank you everyone who voted for me. Such an honour!

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Tom Clark

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And then to complete our top 10 thinkers 2020 we have @ZernickaGoetz whose work growing embryos in the lab has profound implications for medicine—and human life

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Extended culture of mouse embryos in vitro until day 11! Massive congratulations ⁦ @jacob_hanna ⁩ 👏👏👏

Ex utero mouse embryogenesis from pre-gastrulation to late organogenesis

Nature - A new culture system makes it possible to grow mouse embryos and study their development outside the uterus up to the point of late organogenesis.

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

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Most of the Abs we buy do NOT work. It would be amazing if companies know that they have to send a small sample first to verify if it works, before huge investment

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Prof. Nikolai Slavov

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Here is one estimate on money spent on failed antibodies. I wonder how much is spent on following flawed hypotheses based on affinity reagents that we thought worked ...

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And here we are enjoying lab life this summer

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Olga Tokarczuk got Nobel prize today! She has been my favourite writer in Poland and literature soulmate in thinking of crossing borders - here between science and literature at Hay Festival

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Patience and creativity during tough times (like COVID lab lockdowns) are essential. Avoid those who ask to write their own reference letters and boast excessively. Good scientists are good human beings too. (6/8)

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Two pearls that came out together in the last issue of Science Congratulations👏👏👏 ⁦ @OphirKlein ⁩ Wendell Lim and ⁦ @jpvincentlab ⁩ ⁦ @GSalbreux ⁩ and labs

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I just discovered what my son has been doing instead of his homework! Apparently it’s unfinished but I love it already.

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Once they join the lab, I try my best to empower them, encourage openness and transparency, and support them in presenting their data at meetings, sometimes even convincing conference organisers to let them present instead of me (5/8)

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

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This is great news release - thank you Cambridge! Study identifies trigger for 'head-to-tail' axis development in human embryo via @Cambridge_Uni @EurekAlert

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So glad to have such a happy group and to celebrate our new paper. I can’t believe how much we grew over the last 2 years. ⁦ @MZG_Lab ⁩

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Wonderful day for our group - two papers out @NatureCellBio @ZernickaGoetz @BernaSozen_ @Marta_Shahbazi @MZG_Lab One celebrating complete gastrulating synthetic embryo-like structures and the other human and mouse embryos going through implantation. I hope you will enjoy them

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

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My life in 6 objects of which two are my book #theDanceofLife with ⁦ @RogerHighfield that⁩ came out today in countries that adopted me, the UK and US. Million thanks to everyone who suggested writing a book and made it happen ⁦ @BasicBooks ⁩ @⁦PenguinBooks

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I’ve been lucky to have many post-docs who are now PIs. Here are some who still use X from time to time like me, even with our busy schedules @morris_lab @Marta_Shahbazi @GianlucaAmadei1 @_carlosgantner_ @zhumeng123 @BernaSozen_ @NeophChr @funcembryomics @emselor @DrAndyCox

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Mouse-embryo model derived exclusively from embryonic stem cells undergo neurulation and heart...

Several in vitro models have been developed to recapitulate mouse embryogenesis solely from embryonic stem cells (ESCs). Despite mimicking many aspects of early development, they fail to capture the...

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

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This is one of my favorite images of love and compassion and I totally understand the power of this type of brain’s reaction as a mother of two, but also as a daughter

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Neuroscientist Rebecca Saxe presented this MRI image of a mother kissing her infant child, reflecting the brain's reaction. Dopamine is released causing a wellbeing reaction and also oxytocin known informally as the 'love hormone' #WomensArt ❤ (via RGC, FB)

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

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future dancer future doctor - Christmas is for dreams and family

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1. One of my favorite lab projects: uncovering when and how cells begin to differ from each other as they first form. A long journey of discovery that dared to challenge the norms of the field. #StemCellResearch

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Lisa Iwamoto-Stohl

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Excited to share our latest preprint () from the @MZG_Lab and @slavovLab ! Harnessing single-cell proteomics, we examine the earliest stages of symmetry breaking in mouse and human embryos *and* link these to developmental consequences 🥳

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

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My life has unfolded in ways I never envisioned when growing up in a communistic Warsaw. So grateful to have found science that has guided me through and up to tracking lineages of cells in embryos with an amazing group of scientists who joined me. Thank you @stemcellpodcast 💕

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Stem Cell Podcast

@stemcellpodcast

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The @MZG_Lab is back at it again with a new @CellCellPress paper! They used lineage tracing to show that the majority of the #epiblast is derived from only one 2-cell stage blastomere. @JunyentSergi @mmeglicki 🔖 🎧

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

5 years

This is the first art project with my son this year - to decorate the empty walls of our new home. Me in red and Simon in back&white. I wish I have more time to paint and to be with him.

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

5 years

Full of expectations for a new start

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

4 years

These are just some of many many things I am greatful for

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

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Being grateful to have a glass, is one of my new year resolutions

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4 years

I am in the Moderna team and celebrating the first feeling of freedom 🍷

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

4 years

Congratulations Grace and Nicolas!Wonderful discovery and beautifully documented. 4-cell stage asymmetry rocks!

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Grace Lim

4 years

Hot off the press @nature ! Very excited to share my PhD work and first major publication. We found a surprising new role for keratins as asymmetrically inherited fate determinants in the early mouse embryo:

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

1 year

You are AMAZING Alex! I had no idea you were drawing this! Beautiful drawing!

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Alex Cagan

1 year

#eshg2023 award lecture by @ZernickaGoetz on building mammalian embryos from stem cells

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

4 years

It’s great to see our book wearing new clothes. The paperback edition came out today @RogerHighfield Million thanks @wh_allen @jamie__joseph @4nnaLambert @Caltech @Cambridge_Uni #embryo #WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience

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4 years

The world's top 50 thinkers 2020 via @prospect_uk

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

2 years

Thanks to my most amazing lab @MZG_Lab and remarkable collaborators

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

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I’m often asked to talk about my work but it is all about my lab, driven by my wonderful team of post-docs. Thank you all #PostdocAppreciationWeek

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

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We wish to thank @PDN_Cambridge , @Cambridge_Uni , @Caltech for support and @Nomis for funding. We are grateful to @DagmarIber team for mathematical modelling, & Rachel & all the patients & #IVF clinics who made this work possible. Thank you for your support all these years!

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

1 year

With my brilliant PhD student ⁦ @zhumeng123 ⁩ - feeling nostalgic while preparing our final - 5th - paper together ⁦ @MZG_Lab ⁩

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

6 years

With one of my favourite mentors John Gurdon in an outfit I designed and named “primitive streak” to honour one of my favourite structures in developmental biology

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

4 years

This is what my son painted while I was listening to most excellent talks by @jvveenvliet and @LabSrinivas at Gastrulation club this morning. He is missing his sister Natasha left in Cambridge so we all connected to Cambridge this morning in different ways❤️

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

2 years

As a a mother’s day present my Lab has a new website! So grateful to Justin Sengly and Sam Wagner for designing this website for us. From text to icons.

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

3 years

A present from my husband just arrived - a photo from just 20 years ago - still in a hospital in Cambridge. Tashi was delivered by C-section on that day.

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

1 year

Thank you so much @CellPressNews

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Cell Press

1 year

Congratulations to Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, winner of the 2023 Ogawa-Yamanaka Stem Cell Prize! Read more about her work: @CellStemCell @ZernickaGoetz

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

1 year

Wow! And this is not unique! I would like to write a book devoted to women and some men too who had to overcome similar obstacles.

@NobelPrize

The Nobel Prize

1 year

“Ten years ago I was kicked out and forced to retire.” Our new medicine laureate Katalin Karikó ( @kkariko ) told us how much it means to be awarded the Nobel Prize after a scientific career that has been full of challenges. Ten years ago, Karikó was still doing all her

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

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When I arrived at our LA home, there was a wonderful gift waiting for me - the French version of #TheDanceofLife . I think I know my favorite - which cover do you like the most?

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

4 years

Only in a very few cases both monozygotic twins are equally successful here. Is this a result of cell competition?

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

2 years

Many thanks @Sergiu_P_Pasca for the inspiring discussion in news and views in @Nature of complete (tri-lineage) mouse embryo models built from stem cells, their potential and their nomenclature

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Mouse embryo models built from stem cells take shape in a dish

Nature - Mouse embryoids grown to mid-gestation stage in culture.

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

9 months

So hard to account for where the last years disappeared unless one puts these two pictures side by side. Happy Birthday, Simón!

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

6 years

In my daughter’s hands ... but in which hands is her future?

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

6 years

We very much hope you will find this review as helpful as inspiring.

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Nature Cell Biology

6 years

A timely review from Shahbazi & Zernicka-Goetz on the post-implantation mammalian embryo and how innovative technologies have helped to shape it

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

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Lessons in History: Thanks to Peter Lawrence (Drosophila), John Gurdon (frogs), Bill Harris (zebrafish), and Andrzej Tarkowski (mice). Their pioneering work and support helped me navigate controversy and ignited my passion for developmental biology across models #HistoryOfScience ”

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

5 months

@ProfBootyPhD Indeed, our paper validates two decades of meticulous experiments, which once labeled me as a ‘controversial figure’ among senior male peers - a tough spot for a young woman starting a lab in a foreign country. Thankfully, open-minded colleagues helped me prevail. Cheers to them!

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

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My beautiful girls are all growing in different but all exciting directions - the one in the middle just became preoccupied with neuroscience. How is it possible?

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