Maya Shvartsman

The paper identifies CD44 as a marker and regulator of haematopoietic stem cell development through single-cell transcriptomics and functional experiments.

The paper compares single-cell RNA sequencing data from Yolk Sac and AGM in mouse embryos to identify differences in hematopoietic potential and cell populations.

The paper investigates the impact of iron deficiency on embryonic hematopoiesis, finding it affects hematopoietic progenitor survival and proliferation but not the endothelial to hematopoietic transition.

The paper identifies a new pathway for red blood cell generation in the mouse embryo by discovering hemogenic endothelial cells that can produce erythrocytes independently of Runx1.