Tomoyo Sawada

This study characterizes TAF1 expression variation in XDP female carriers and human brain ontogeny, identifying age- and region-specific patterns that may explain neostriatum vulnerability in XDP.

The paper uses ventral forebrain organoids from schizophrenia patients and controls to show accelerated maturation of inhibitory neurons and shared gene expression patterns with postmortem brain tissue.

This paper shows that primed human pluripotent stem cells can differentiate to trophoblast stem cells without becoming naive, using specific signaling conditions and revealing a transcriptional network involving BMP5/7 and GATA3.