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Cortical organoid circuit maturation
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- 2papers
- 4people
- 2meetings
- 3tasks
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Activity-dependent maturation of cortical organoids
NeuronIn revisionNetwork bursts in long-term organoid cultures
bioRxivPreprint
Imported from Zotero or BibTeX
- ET
Eleanor
PI
- LC
Leon
Postdoc
- PN
Priya
PhD student
- MP
Maya
Technician
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- 14:00Lab meeting
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- Freeze plate map for cohort seven
- Run updated MEA batch analysis
- Confirm antibody panel
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Tuesday group meeting notes
28 Apr 2026, 10:00
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- Submit Figure 3 draft by Friday
- Review qPCR controls with Mei
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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.
Comments
Alex
Mei
1 task created
Update axes on Figure 2
in projectCortical Organoid Project
linked to paperCortical organoid maturation
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MEA bursting, batches 5 to 7
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Single-cell clusters at day 60
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- lab-share/scrna/d60
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SATB2 and CTIP2 cell counts
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- imaging-core/2026-09
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- Fixation and staining v3
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