Our research group is interested in the molecular and cellular origins and evolution of vertebrate organs. Tweets by Henrik, usually in the name of our group.
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How have concerted and mosaic evolutionary mechanisms shaped the expansion of the human cerebellum?
Our review with @tyamadat.bsky.social and @ioansarr.bsky.social available free till March 29:
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We are thrilled that our study on the evolution of gene regulation in mammalian cerebellum development – led by @ioansarr.bsky.social, @marisepp.bsky.social and @tyamadat.bsky.social, in collaboration with @steinaerts.bsky.social – is now out in @ScienceMagazine! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Gene regulatory changes are considered major drivers of evolutionary innovations, including the cerebellum’s expansion during human evolution, yet they remain largely unexplored. In this study, we com...
It was a wonderful opportunity to reflect on our work on the development of the mammalian cerebellum.
We thank our editors, Alexandra Joyner and James Li!
Special thanks to Henrik @kaessmannlab.bsky.social for his unwavering support and mentorship!
Fantastic opportunity - Mari is an exceptional scientist and person and was an outstanding pillar of our lab!
Huge congrats from our whole lab to Sir David Attenborough on his 100th birthday!!! 🎉🥳❤️
I had the honor of meeting him - and being interviewed by him - in 2013 for his BBC documentary "Rise of Animals: Triumph of the Vertebrates", which featured part of our work.
Thrilled and honored to receive the Ernst Schering Prize 2026!🎉 Also deeply grateful to have been elected to the German Academy of Sciences. Both are recognitions of our whole group – I’m immensely thankful to all team members, past and present!❤️ tinyurl.com/hjrejv3p tinyurl.com/muw7j6mr
This paper marks the end of a long but rewarding project - and the start of something new (more below👇).
Massive thanks to @kaessmannlab.bsky.social, @ioansarr.bsky.social, @tyamadat.bsky.social, our amazing collaborators @steinaerts.bsky.social, Stefan Pfister, Rüdiger Behr and the entire team! 💙
Using AI to Retrace the Evolution of Genetic Control Elements in the Brain – Researchers map evolutionary changes in the developing mammalian cerebellum www.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/...
How does gene regulation shape brain evolution? Our new preprint dives into this question in the context of mammalian cerebellum development! rb.gy/dbcxjz
Led by @ioansarr.bsky.social, @marisepp.bsky.social and @tyamadat.bsky.social, in collaboration with @steinaerts.bsky.social
We hope our data can be useful to you, and to increase its usability, we've generated an exploratory web app as a resource and starting point to examine our data on the @kaessmannlab.bsky.social website apps.kaessmannlab.org/HindbrainExp...
Excited to share our preprint on our new multi-omic atlas of human hindbrain development. Led by postdoc Piyush Joshi, in collaboration with @kaessmannlab.bsky.social and Pfister labs, our atlas represents the first comprehensive view of human hindbrain development. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
I've started my own lab 🎉
PhD/postdoc positions available - reach out if curious about cerebellum evo-devo and autism spectrum disorders.
We’re based at Uni Tartu, Institute of Genomics (home to Estonian Biobank), and funded by @simonsfoundation.org @embo.org, and the Estonian Research Council.
We are thrilled that our study on the evolution of gene regulation in mammalian cerebellum development – led by @ioansarr.bsky.social, @marisepp.bsky.social and @tyamadat.bsky.social, in collaboration with @steinaerts.bsky.social – is now out in @ScienceMagazine! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
