Over the past 20 years, research groups led by Smith and Dr Jenny Nichols at the Institute have made a major contribution both to understanding the early stages of mouse development and to determining how to make stable mouse stem cell lines more efficiently. (cam.ac.uk)
Seeing a developing human brain and studying the (funny) ways it interacts with the outside world was much more fun than figuring out synaptic plasticity during mouse development. (nextscientist.com)
His laboratory studies early mouse development as a model system to understand molecular mechanisms leading to establishment of pluripotency in vivo. (eurosystemproject.eu)