Lab news

4/15/2021 Nodal visualization paper on bioRxiv
Our manuscript on visualizing the Nodal morphogen in embryonic stem cells and gastruloids is online now. link

2/1/2021 Paper on evaluation of BMP treated hESCs out now on bioRxiv
Our paper using scRNA data to examine the (much debated) identify of hESCs treated with BMP is online now link

1/22/2021 Modeling Waddington’s landscape on bioRxiv
 Elena’s paper with David Rand on formalizing landscape models for quantitative data fitting is online now link

1/4/2021 Micropatterning with photomasks out now on bioRxiv
Our paper on using virtual photomasks to rapidly perform micro patterning is out now on bioRxiv link

11/13/2020 Embryo modeling review out in Nature Materials
Review with Jianping Fu and Matthias Lutolf is out now link

6/29/2020 Congratulations George!
George successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations Dr Britton!

4/1/2020 Congratulations Sapna!
Sapna successfully defended her PhD Thesis. Congratulations Dr. Chhabra!

2/13/2020 Signaling dynamics in embryos and ESCs
Our review on morphogen signaling dynamics in stem cells is out now link

11/4/2019 Welcome Phil!
Phil Auckland has joined the lab as a postdoc and Rice Academy Fellow.

10/15/2019 2D Gastruloid 
signaling dynamics paper out in PLOS Biology
Read the paper here.

9/13/2019 Ectodermal patterning paper out in Development.
Read the paper here, also highlighted by Development, and an interview with Aryeh and George.

4/13/2019 Welcome Siqi!
Siqi Du has joined the lab as a graduate student

4/4/2019 Congratulations Joseph!
Joseph passed his PhD defense. Congratulations Dr Massey!

3/25/2019 Congratulations Kinshuk!
Kinshuk passed his PhD defense. Congratulations Dr Mitra!

3/4/2019 Nodal and BMP dynamics in self-organization paper out in eLife
Read our paper on how the different dynamics of signaling influence cell fate decisions here.

2/28/2019 Wnt dynamics paper in PNAS
Our paper on Wnt signaling dynamics in pluripotency and differentiation is out in PNAS. Read it here. Rice new release here.

2/25/2019 Welcome Eleana!
Eleana Rizou has joined the lab as a graduate student

1/7/2019 Welcome Ye!
Ye Zhu has joined the lab as a graduate student

12/23/2018 Secreted RNA reporter paper published in ACS Synthetic Biology
Our paper on using engineered small RNAs as reporters is published. Find it here.

10/11/2018 2d gastuloid patterning paper on bioRxiv
Our preprint on how BMP, WNT and Nodal combine to generate self-organized patterns is online now. link.

8/31/2018: Wnt signaling dynamics preprint on bioRxiv
Our paper examining signaling dynamics in pluripotency and differentiation is online now. link.

5/22/2018: Aryeh on Houston public radio:
You can hear the interview about human stem cell and embryo research here

5/17/2018: Synthetic secreted reporter preprint in bioRxiv
Our paper on using secreted synthetic small RNAs as non-destructive reporters is online in biorxiv. link.

4/1/2018: Welcome Elena!
Elena Camacho Aguilar has joined the lab as a postdoc

3/1/2018: Welcome Suparna!
Suparna Sarkar-Banerjee has joined the lab as a postdoc

2/21/2018: Welcome Kong and Miguel!
Xiangyu Kong and Miguel Angel Ortiz Salazar have joined the lab as PhD students

1/12/2018: New NIH grant
our lab has received an R01 grant to study Wnt signaling dynamics and ectodermal patterning. Rice press release is here.

11/16/2017: Nodal signaling dynamics preprint in bioRxiv
See our latest on how the dynamics of Nodal and BMP signaling are interpreted in stem cell patterning here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/10/13/202366

8/10/2017:  Community effect paper published in Development
Our paper on morphogen and community effects in BMP-mediated differentiation is now published in Development. link

7/28/2017: Simons Investigator award
Aryeh has been named a Simons investigator in the Mathematical Modeling of Living Systems.

5/1/2017: Welcome Li!
Lizhong (Li) Liu has joined the lab as a postdoc.


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