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Thea L. Willis

King's College LondonORCID 0000-0002-1794-7490Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:mouse· 3 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 1 Research Focus:cell-cell communication· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1

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Consensus Pituitary Atlas, a scalable resource for annotation, novel marker discovery and analyses in pituitary gland research

Bence Kövér, Thea L. Willis, Olivia Sherwin, James Kaufman-Cook, Yasmine Kemkem, Miriam Vazquez Segoviano, Emily J. Lodge, Michel Zamojski, Natalia Mendelev, Zidong Zhang, Gregory R. Smith, Daniel J. Bernard, Hui‐Chun Lu, Stuart C. Sealfon, Frederique Murielle Ruf-Zamojski, Cynthia L. Andoniadou

The paper creates a large-scale Consensus Pituitary Atlas to improve reproducibility and enable marker discovery and analysis in pituitary research.

bioRxiv · Oct 28, 2025 · PreprintBioinformatics

SOX2+ sustentacular cells are stem cells of the postnatal adrenal medulla

Alice Santambrogio, Yasmine Kemkem, Thea L. Willis, Ilona Berger, Maria Eleni Kastriti, Louis Faure, John P. Russell, Emily J. Lodge, Val Yianni, Kövér, Bence, Rebecca J. Oakey, Barbara Altieri, Stefan R Bornstein, Charlotte Steenblock, Igor I. Adameyko, Cynthia L. Andoniadou

This study identifies SOX2+ sustentacular cells as stem cells for postnatal adrenal medulla chromaffin cells, showing their ability to generate both adrenaline and noradrenaline lineages and maintain homeostasis via WNT6 secretion.

Nature Communications · Jan 2, 2025Peer-reviewedDevelopmental Biology

Imprinted Dlk1 dosage as a size determinant of the mammalian pituitary gland

Valeria Scagliotti, Maria Lillina Vignola, Thea L. Willis, Mark C. Howard, Eugenia Marinelli, Carles Gaston‐Massuet, Cynthia L. Andoniadou, Marika Charalambous

This study shows that Dlk1 dosage in the pituitary gland affects stem cell commitment and long-term pituitary size.

eLife · Aug 17, 2023Peer-reviewedDevelopmental Biology