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Evan Macosko

@macosko

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Genomics technologist, Psychiatrist, Associate Professor, Massachusetts General Hospital @broadinstitute. Founder, Curio Bioscience

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Evan Macosko
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RT @HuChenlei: We developed an imaging-free spatial genomics technology where DNA barcodes diffuse to connect locally. Using UMAP, we recon….
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RT @NadigAjay: How do genetic perturbations change cells? How are these effects shaped by cell type and dosage? How do we best extract insi….
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RT @jacksonweir4: Hear us talk about Slide-tags!.
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Evan Macosko
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RT @dolanmjg: I am thrilled to announce that I will be joining the Department of Genetics at Trinity College Dublin (@tcdgenmicro) in summe….
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RT @autismcrisis: Findings "strongly imply that there is no specific link between maternal mental illness or maternal infection during preg….
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Evan Macosko
2 years
A huge congratulations to Jonah Langlieb, Nina Sachdev, @Naeemnadaff, @KarolBalderrama, Mukund Raj, and Chuck Vanderburg. And grateful for the continued collaboration with @insitubiology . We hope (and expect!) our atlas helps accelerate many areas of neuroscience research.
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Evan Macosko
2 years
We now know the locations of cell types in a full mammalian brain. Our work reveals the brainstem’s absolutely stunning cellular complexity. How and why does it arise?. Visit to plot genes, localize types, and get markers.
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Evan Macosko
2 years
Slide-tags unifies the single cell + spatial genomics worlds. It solves three key problems with existing spatial methods:. 1) Cell segmentation (the biggest problem).2) robustness and scalability (well-powered case-control studies now possible).3) Multiomics (ATAC, RNA, etc).
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2 years
A new method called Slide-tags lets scientists capture both genetic and location information of individual cells using standard single-cell workflows in the lab. The technology builds upon Slide-seq, both developed by the labs of @insitubiology & @macosko.
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Evan Macosko
2 years
The sharing of data is the only way we will make collective progress on hard problems like AD. Our entire dataset and analysis are available at . Vahid Gazestani’s integration of 27 datasets can be easily imported to answer your own scientific questions.
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Evan Macosko
2 years
Utilizing rare human brain biopsies we address:.1) Which cell types likely make amyloid?.2) How do microglia respond to amyloid and how does this compare to states in mouse models?.3) What neuronal states precede cell death in AD?. Paper out today! .
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Evan Macosko
2 years
RT @dolanmjg: Delighted to announce our work developing an approach to understand the function of human microglial states. @MartineTherrie4….
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Evan Macosko
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Congrats @tkam80, Vahid Gazestani and dear collaborators Ville Leinonen and @LabMalm. Amazingly, Vahid integrated our data with most postmortem datasets:. We hope his work provides a common language for discussing cell types and states in human cortex.
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Evan Macosko
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How does brain tissue change when amyloid first appears in the brain? In rare surgical biopsies, we find a hyperactive neuronal state preceding loss, and evidence of oligodendrocytes, as well as neurons, producing amyloid.
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RT @AndyRusss: Single-cell or spatial?. Our new technology - Slide-tags - allows both in the same experiment, enabling true single-cell m….
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Evan Macosko
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All single cell assays can now be spatial. Slide tags is simple, reliable single cell with hi-res spatial positioning. A truly outstanding scientific team: @insitubiology, @andyrusss, @jacksonweir4, Naeem Nadaf.
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Evan Macosko
2 years
RT @jacksonweir4: Introducing Slide-tags: our new technology for truly single-cell, multi-modal spatial genomics!. Had a blast working alon….
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Evan Macosko
2 years
Example uses of .1) label transfer your sc data to ours. Get cell type assignments and spatial positions. 2) Find genes or cell types enriched in a region. 3) Retrieve the minimal set of genes needed to define a cell type uniquely (ie for FISH).
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Evan Macosko
2 years
An amazing team led by Jonah Langlieb and Nina Sachdev. Kudos to Karol Balderrama, who did Slide-seq on an entire brain in just three (!) days, and Naeem Nadaf, who collected 6 million (!) snRNA-seq profiles. Always grateful for our ongoing collaboration w/ @insitubiology.
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Evan Macosko
2 years
Two of my broad conclusions from these data:.1) The midbrain + medulla deserve far more attention in neuroscience than they currently receive;.2) Functionally annotating all of these cell types will require new tools, perhaps building on the RADARS/RADAR/CellREADR technologies.
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Evan Macosko
2 years
Excited to release our cell type atlas of the adult mouse brain! Here’s our portal:. And preprint:. We find minimal marker sets for all cell types, explore activity-regulated genes, and perform analyses of heritability enrichment.
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