
Nathan Lord
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Nathan Lord
@LordLab_Pitt
Asst. Professor in @compbiopitt. Our lab is interested in cell fate decisions in embryos, noisy signaling and optogenetics.


Excited to present SpaceTravLR, a new framework to uncover functional spatial microniches across contexts. We learn how individual & combinatorial genetic changes rewire regulation & cell-intrinsic + cell-extrinsic signaling across space in tissues. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… (1/2)










Optogenetic control of Nodal signaling patterns Read this Techniques & Resources Article by Harold McNamara, Alex schier, Adam Cohen, Nathan Lord and colleagues: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/15… 🎥Direct visualization of photopatterning of live zebrafish embryos




Have you ever wanted to *see* receptor activity in embryos? If so, our new preprint is for you! In it, we showcase a new live-cell biosensor for visualizing receptor tyrosine kinase activity in living embryos – pYtags! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…


a personal update: in January, I'm moving to Yale to join @MCDB_Yale and to open my lab in the @WuTsaiYale Institute! We will investigate multicellular self-organization using synbio tools to read and write developmental signals in stem cell models. syndevbio.org




Our study decoding gastruloid symmetry breaking is now live @NatureCellBio! rdcu.be/dVMLG Thank you to the NCB edititorial team and to our reviewers for a constructive review process which helped improve our study. A thread on updates (1/n):





Summer Thyme, PhD, is the recipient of a 5-year, $4.1M Transformative Research Award from @NIH to study intellectual disability in neurodevelopmental disorders. umassmed.edu/news/news-arch… @summerbthyme @UMassChan_BMB @UMassChan


