Naomi Moris

@nmoris.bsky.social

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Group Leader @theCrick 🧬 Studying human embryo models to better understand development (she/her)

Screenshot from the parliament live.tv player streaming the House of Lords debate, showing Baroness Deech discussing reform of the HFEA.
PowerPoint slide showing pictures from the Met Gala 2026, showing an outfit with an additional set of arms and one with a rib and vertebrae pattern
Table outlining the features and considerations that we propose should be considered in SCBEM research
A confocal image of a 3D human Trunk-like Structure (hTLS) made from pluripotent stem cells, showing a neural tube (cyan) and segmented somites (magenta).
Komal Makwana (Postdoc in the Moris lab) wears purple and holds the December 2025 issue of Nature Cell Biology with a purple image of an hTLS on the cover)
A PowerPoint slide with a gastruloid on a mosaic tile background
Signalling schematic in a cross section of the embryo (left) and a cross-section of the hTLS structures (right)
Localisation of gene expression within somites including UNCX (blue) located posteriorly and ALDH1A2 (magenta) which is next to the neural tube (pale pink)
Axis generation across the neural tube located adjacent to the somites
Confocal images of hTLS models showing epithelial structures in the somites and neural tube
Scanning electron microscope image of a human trunk-like structure (left) and human embryo (right) false coloured for somites (magenta) and neural tube (gold).