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Congratulations to Dr. David Ornitz’s Lab on their recent publication! FGF9 and FGF10 activate distinct signaling pathways to direct lung epithelial specification and branching. Yin Y, Ornitz DM. Sci Signal . 2020 Mar 3;13(621):eaay4353.

Congratulations to the Theunissen and Solnica-Krezel Lab’s on their recent publication! Derivation of trophoblast stem cells from naïve human pluripotent stem cells. Dong C, Beltcheva M, Gontarz P, Zhang B, Popli P, Fischer LA, Khan SA, Park KM, Yoon EJ, Xing X, Kommagani R, Wang T, Solnica-Krezel L, Theunissen TW. Elife. 2020 Feb 12;9:e52504.

Congratulations to Dr. Samantha Morris’s Lab on their recent publication! CellTagging: combinatorial indexing to simultaneously map lineage and identity at single-cell resolution. Kong W, Biddy BA, Kamimoto K, Amrute JM, Butka EG, Morris SA. Nat Protoc . 2020 Mar;15(3):750-772.

Lauren Walker, former graduate student of Dr. Aaron DiAntonio, has received the 2020 Hilde Mangold Postdoctoral Symposium Award for her talk at the 79th Society for Developmental Biology Meeting. Lauren is currently a postdoctoral fellow in Michael Granato’s lab.

Douglas F. Covey, the Andrew C. and Barbara B. Taylor Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine, will receive the Chancellor’s Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Congratulations to Dr. Doug Covey! To read  more, click here

Scientists generate early stem cells that form human placenta Such cells aid efforts to understand miscarriage, preterm birth, other pregnancy complications To read more, click here