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Wed 26 Aug
OverdueSeminar room 245mCortical organoid circuit maturation
Eleanor ThomsonLeon ChenPriya NairMaya Patel
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10:30 AM
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OverdueTeams30mMicroglia atlas harmonisation
Eleanor ThomsonLeon ChenPriya Nair
11:00 AM
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SfN abstract submission
27 Aug 2026PosterCortical organoid circuit maturationDue today
Leon ChenPriya Nair
Wellcome quarterly report
28 Aug 2026GrantMicroglia atlas harmonisationTomorrow
Eleanor ThomsonLeon Chen
Neuron revision figures
4 Sept 2026PaperCortical organoid circuit maturation8 days
Priya NairMaya Patel
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3 active manuscripts and lab outputs
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Year
Activity-dependent maturation of cortical organoids
Eleanor Thomson, Leon Chen + 4
Neuron
Revision-Microglia atlas harmonisation across cohorts
Eleanor Thomson, Leon Chen + 4
Nature Methods
Under review-Automated MEA analysis for organoid cultures
Eleanor Thomson, Leon Chen + 4
Cell Systems
Published2026Grants
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NIH R01-CA-123456
Neural atlas · $500k · ends Jun 2027
Papers
- Annotation transferCell Systems · 2025
- Active-curation strategiesNat Methods · 2025
- Cohort-3 QC preprintbioRxiv · 2024
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Sarah SmithAlex PatelMei WongJon RahmanPriya Kaur
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11:001:1 · Alexsupervision
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Analyse cohort 4 RNA-seq
Atlas methods validation
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Differential expression analysis
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- PaperCortical organoid maturation
- PosterSfN 2026
- TalkOrganoid methods seminar
- GrantWellcome progress report
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28 Apr 2026 · 10:00
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Agreed to prioritise the Cohort 4 timeline ahead of the December review. Tim will draft the methods section.
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Cortical organoid maturation
Thomson Lab · Draft manuscript
We profiled longitudinal changes across four independently derived cortical organoid cohorts.
The results show a reproducible maturation trajectory across both sequencing and microscopy measurements.
These data support a shared window for downstream perturbation studies.
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- Confirm microscope bookingMedMon 29
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Recommendation letter · Jane Chang
Draft readyJane joined the lab in 2023 and has since first-authored two papers, presented at SfN, and led the cortical-atlas harmonisation effort. Her qPCR protocol is now standard across three of our projects…
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