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MSCA & EMBO Fellow | Neural Stem Cells, Organoids & NGS | Grant Strategy for Biotech & Life Science Companies

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I am a postdoctoral researcher at Karolinska Institutet and KTH with a DPhil from the University of Oxford, specialising in neural regeneration, organoid systems, and gene regulatory networks. I have secured over €400,000 in competitive European funding as principal applicant, including an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship and an EMBO Long-Term Fellowship, and co-applied for a 3,000,000 SEK seed grant. Beyond my own research, I wrote some blog posts and I currently coordinate a multi-institutional network to establish Sweden's national Cluster of Excellence in AI-powered, human-centred research - an initiative combining AI with organoid co-cultures to recreate complex tissues. This role has given me deep familiarity with the Swedish and European funding landscape and the priorities of both academic and industry stakeholders. My technical expertise spans single-cell and bulk RNA/ATAC sequencing, genetic mouse models, organoid culture, advanced fluorescence microscopy, and computational analysis (R, Python, bash). I have published in Cell, eLife, and Developmental Cell, and have supervised BSc, MSc, and PhD students at KI. I offer consulting services in three areas: grant writing and funding strategy for Swedish and European programmes; experimental design, data interpretation, and scientific advisory for life science companies; and scientific communication, including manuscript preparation and editing. If you are a biotech or medtech company navigating a competitive funding application or looking for expert input on neural biology, organoids, or genomics - I would be glad to help.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Molecular Biology
• ☆ Omics
• ☆ Epigenetics
• ☆ DNA Sequencing
• ☆ RNA Sequencing
• ☆ Cell Biology
• ☆ Gene Regulation
• ☆ Bioinformatics
• ☆ Systems Biology
• ☆ Neurology
• ☆ Medical Sciences
• ☆ Spinal Cord Injury

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI

Writing Medical Writing, Technical Writing, Copywriting, Creative Writing, General Proofreading & Editing

Research Technology Scouting, Fact Checking, Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Data Visualization

Work Experience

Karolinska Institutet

- Present

Postdoctoral Researcher

Karolinska Institutet

February 2021 - Present

Bridging PostDoc

Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford

November 2019 - January 2021

Industrial Placement - 12 months

Actavis Biologics, Liverpool, UK

August 2013 - September 2014

Education

DPhil in Medical Sciences (Radcliffe Department of Medicine)

University of Oxford

October 2015 - Present

BSc (Hons) in Genetics with Industrial Experience (Life Sciences)

University of Manchester

September 2011 - July 2015

Certifications

• DPhil in Medical Sciences

  University of Oxford

  February 2020 - Present

• Bachelors in Genetics with Industrial Experience (1st Class)

  University of Manchester

  June 2015 - Present

Publications

PREPRINT

Martyna Lukoseviciute, Vlada-Iuliana Panfil, Timm Häneke, Anaïs Julien, Enric Llorens-Bobadilla, Christian Göritz, Jonas Frisén (2026). Reconstitution of the Spinal Cord Injury Microenvironment in Adult Neural Stem Cell-Derived Organoids .

Ruth M Williams and Martyna Lukoseviciute and Tatjana Sauka-Spengler and Marianne E Bronner(2021). Segregation of neural crest specific lineage trajectories from a heterogeneous neural plate border territory only emerges at neurulation . []. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

A blood atlas of COVID-19 defines hallmarks of disease severity and specificity @article{2021, doi = {10.1101/2021.05.11.21256877}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1101%2F2021.05.11.21256877}, year = 2021, month = {may}, publisher = {Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory}, author = {and David J Ahern and Zhichao Ai and Mark Ainsworth and Chris Allan and Alice Allcock and Azim Ansari and Carolina V Arancibia-Carcamo and Dominik Aschenbrenner and Moustafa Attar and J. Kenneth Baillie and Eleanor Barnes and Rachael Bashford-Rogers and Archana Bashyal and Sally Beer and Georgina Berridge and Amy Beveridge and Sagida Bibi and Tihana Bicanic and Luke Blackwell and Paul Bowness and Andrew Brent and Andrew Brown and John Broxholme and David Buck and Katie L Burnham and Helen Byrne and Susana Camara and Ivan Candido Ferreira and Philip Charles and Wentao Chen and Yi-Ling Chen and Amanda Chong and Elizabeth Clutterbuck and Mark Coles and Christopher P Conlon and Richard Cornall and Adam P Cribbs and Fabiola Curion and Emma E Davenport and Neil Davidson and Simon Davis and Calliope Dendrou and Julie Dequaire and Lea Dib and James Docker and Christina Dold and Tao Dong and Damien Downes and Alexander Drakesmith and Susanna J Dunachie and David A Duncan and Chris Eijsbouts and Robert Esnouf and Alexis Espinosa and Rachel Etherington and Benjamin Fairfax and Rory Fairhead and Hai Fang and Shayan Fassih and Sally Felle and Maria Fernandez Mendoza and Ricardo Ferreira and Roman Fischer and Thomas Foord and Aden Forrow and John Frater and Anastasia Fries and Veronica Gallardo Sanchez and Lucy Garner and Clementine Geeves and Dominique Georgiou and Leila Godfrey and Tanya Golubchik and Maria Gomez Vazquez and Angie Green and Hong Harper and Heather A Harrington and Raphael Heilig and Svenja Hester and Jennifer Hill and Charles Hinds and Clare Hird and Ling-Pei Ho and Renee Hoekzema and Benjamin Hollis and Jim Hughes and Paula Hutton and Matthew Jackson and Ashwin Jainarayanan and Anna James-Bott and Kathrin Jansen and Katie Jeffery and Elizabeth Jones and Luke Jostins and Georgina Kerr and David Kim and Paul Klenerman and Julian C Knight and Vinod Kumar and Piyush Kumar Sharma and Prathiba Kurupati and Andrew Kwok and Angela Lee and Aline Linder and Teresa Lockett and Lorne Lonie and Maria Lopopolo and Martyna Lukoseviciute and Jian Luo and Spyridoula Marinou and Brian Marsden and Jose Martinez and Philippa Matthews and Michalina Mazurczyk and Simon McGowan and Stuart McKechnie and Adam Mead and Alexander J Mentzer and Yuxin Mi and Claudia Monaco and Ruddy Montadon and Giorgio Napolitani and Isar Nassiri and Alex Novak and Darragh O{\textquotesingle}Brien and Daniel O{\textquotesingle}Connor and Denise O{\textquotesingle}Donnell and Graham Ogg and Lauren Overend and Inhye Park and Ian Pavord and Yanchun Peng and Frank Penkava and Mariana Pereira Pinho and Elena Perez and Andrew J Pollard and Fiona Powrie and Bethan Psaila and T. Phuong Quan and Emmanouela Repapi and Santiago Revale and Laura Silva-Reyes and Jean-Baptiste Richard and Charlotte Rich-Griffin and Thomas Ritter and Christine S Rollier and Matthew Rowland and Fabian Ruehle and Mariolina Salio and Stephen N Sansom and Alberto Santos Delgado and Tatjana Sauka-Spengler and Ron Schwessinger and Giuseppe Scozzafava and Gavin Screaton and Anna Seigal and Malcolm G Semple and Martin Sergeant and Christina Simoglou Karali and David Sims and Donal Skelly and Hubert Slawinski and Alberto Sobrinodiaz and Nikolaos Sousos and Lizzie Stafford and Lisa Stockdale and Marie Strickland and Otto Sumray and Bo Sun and Chelsea Taylor and Stephen Taylor and Adan Taylor and Supat Thongjuea and Hannah Thraves and John A Todd and Adriana Tomic and Orion Tong and Amy Trebes and Dominik Trzupek and Felicia A Tucci and Lance Turtle and Irina Udalova and Holm Uhlig and Erinke van Grinsven and Iolanda Vendrell and Marije Verheul and Alexandru Voda and Guanlin Wang and Lihui Wang and Dapeng Wang and Peter Watkinson and Robert Watson and Michael Weinberger and Justin Whalley and Lorna Witty and Katherine Wray and Luzheng Xue and Hing Yuen Yeung and Zixi Yin and Rebecca K Young and Jonathan Youngs and Ping Zhang and Yasemin-Xiomara Zurke}, title = {A blood atlas of {COVID}-19 defines hallmarks of disease severity and specificity}} . [].

Martyna Lukoseviciute, Sarah Mayes, Tatjana Sauka-Spengler (2021). Neuromesodermal progenitor origin of trunk neural crestin vivo .

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Martyna Lukoseviciute(2022). Multi-layered transcriptional control of cranial neural crest development . Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology. Elsevier {BV}

(2022). Single-cell atlas of early chick development reveals gradual segregation of neural crest lineage from the neural plate border during neurulation . eLife.

(2022). A blood atlas of COVID-19 defines hallmarks of disease severity and specificity . Cell.

Martyna Lukoseviciute, Irving T.C. Ling, Upeka Senanayake, Ivan Candido-Ferreira, Gunes Taylor, Ruth M. Williams, Tatjana Sauka-Spengler(2020). Tissue-Specific In Vivo Biotin Chromatin Immunoprecipitation with Sequencing in Zebrafish and Chicken . STAR Protocols. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 100066. Elsevier {BV}

Kerstin Pinkwart and Falk Schneider and Martyna Lukoseviciute and Tatjana Sauka-Spengler and Edward Lyman and Christian Eggeling and Erdinc Sezgin(2019). Nanoscale dynamics of cholesterol in the cell membrane . Journal of Biological Chemistry. 294. (34). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 12599--12609. Elsevier {BV}

Martyna Lukoseviciute and Daria Gavriouchkina and Ruth M. Williams and Tatiana Hochgreb-Hagele and Upeka Senanayake and Vanessa Chong-Morrison and Supat Thongjuea and Emmanouela Repapi and Adam Mead and Tatjana Sauka-Spengler(2018). From Pioneer to Repressor: Bimodal foxd3 Activity Dynamically Remodels Neural Crest Regulatory Landscape In Vivo . Developmental Cell. 47. (5). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 608--628.e6. Elsevier {BV}

BOOK CHAPTER

Martyna Lukoseviciute and Robert Lea and Shoko Ishibashi and Enrique Amaya(2017). Whole-Mount In Situ Hybridization and a Genotyping Method on Single Xenopus Embryos . Basic Science Methods for Clinical Researchers. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 41--56. Elsevier