17^th September at 10:00
Onsite event
in Putous Auditorio, Visitor and Innovation Centre Joki, 2^nd floor
Flyer

Sarah Teichmann, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge University
Mapping the human body, one cell at a time
Host: Tapio Lönnberg (taplon@utu.fi)

Coffee and sandwiches served before the seminar. First come, first served!

Sarah did her PhD at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK and was a Beit Memorial Fellow at University College London. She started her group at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in 2001. In 2013, she moved to the Wellcome Genome Campus where her group was joint between the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute and the Wellcome Sanger Institute. In 2016, Sarah was appointed the role of Head of the Cellular Genetics programme at the Sanger Institute. Subsequently, in April 2024, Sarah transitioned her group and was appointed as Professor of Stem Cell Medicine at the University of Cambridge, Department of Medicine.

Sarah’s laboratory develops and applies cell atlas technologies to decipher human tissue architecture, with a particular focus on how cellular diversity is generated in the immune system and through development. Sarah is co-founder and co-leader of the international Human Cell Atlas consortium which aims to create reference maps for cells across all human tissues and has grown to include over three thousand members across the world. She also co-directs the CIFAR MacMillan Multiscale Human research programme. Her work has been recognised by numerous awards, including the EMBO Gold Medal, Genetics Society Mary Lyons Award, Biochemical Society GlaxoSmithKline Award, the FEBS|EMBO Women in Science Award among others. She is an EMBO Member, ISCB Fellow, and Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and Royal Society.

Selected publications

Li T, Horsfall D, Basurto-Lozada D, Roberts K, Prete M, Lawrence JEG, He P, Tuck E, Moore J, Yoldas AK, Babalola K, Hartley M, Ghazanfar S, Teichmann SA, Haniffa M, Bayraktar OA. WebAtlas pipeline for integrated single-cell and spatial transcriptomic data. Nat Methods. 2024 Aug 19. doi: 10.1038/s41592-024-02371-x. Online ahead of print.

Saar KL, Scrutton RM, Bloznelyte K, Morgunov AS, Good LL, Lee AA, Teichmann SA and Knowles TPJ. Protein Condensate Atlas from predictive models of heteromolecular condensate composition. Nature communications 2024;15;1;5418

Lindeboom RGH, Worlock KB, Dratva LM, …,  Chiu C, Nikolić MZ, Teichmann SA. Human SARS-CoV-2 challenge uncovers local and systemic response dynamics. Nature. 2024 Jul;631(8019):189-198

Haniffa M, Maartens A and Teichmann SA. How developmental cell atlases inform stem cell embryo models. Nature methods 2023;20;12;1849-1851

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