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Dirk Benzinger

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Postdoc at the Crick in the Briscoe Lab. Previously PhD student with Mustafa Khammash at ETHZ. Development, synthetic biology, and optogenetics. And Art and stuff.

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Large-scale control over collective cell migration using light-activated epidermal growth factor receptors Programmable control over tissue movement is a fundamental challenge for tissue engineering and wound healing. Suh, Thornton, et al. discovered that a light-controlled EGF receptor controls long-range...

I'm so happy to report that our preprint on light-induced collective cell migration has now been published in Cell Systems! This project was a lot of fun and will be the basis for a lot of our ongoing & future work.

25.03.2025 18:29 — 👍 50    🔁 17    💬 2    📌 2

It has been fun being part of this.

Interested in design rules governing cis-regulatory element activity and how they can be used to engineer gene expression?

Check out Jake’s thread/paper!

12.03.2025 13:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Timely TGFβ signalling inhibition induces notochord - Nature Through analysis of developing chick embryos and in vitro differentiation of embryonic stem cells, a study develops a method to generate a model of the human trunk with a notochord.

Our latest: how to generate the notochord
"Timely TGFβ signalling inhibition induces notochord"

A thread:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

19.12.2024 08:50 — 👍 244    🔁 69    💬 7    📌 7

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