Tiam Heydari

This study shows how mechanical forces and substrate properties enhance T-cell receptor proofreading by delaying decision-making and improving ligand discrimination.

The paper develops a framework to predict and control collective fate in multicellular systems by identifying a control regime where a single guide cell can redirect tissue-level organization.

This study uses human naive PSC models to show FGF signaling is critical for hypoblast specification, revealing conservation with mouse lineage specification.

The paper uses a computational model and experiments to show that small micro-patterned mPSC colonies exhibit spontaneous asymmetry in BRA-GFP patterns, suggesting a mechanism for symmetry-breaking in development.

IQCELL predicts gene perturbation effects on developmental trajectories using scRNA-seq data, showing it can infer over 75% of known causal gene interactions in mouse T-cell development.

The paper develops an in vitro platform to study fate patterning in hPSCs, revealing Nodal-dependent switches between gastrulation and neurulation-associated gene profiles.