• Welcome to the Taniguchi Lab

    Discovering the biology of early embryogenesis using stem cell models - apicosome, epiblast, and amnion

  • Epiblast lumenogenesis driven by the apicosome

    A major focus of the Taniguchi lab is to identify how human epiblast structure is formed during implantation

  • Amniogenesis

    The Taniguchi lab actively investigates molecular and cellular mechanisms driving amniotic lineage progression

Our Goal

Advance women’s reproductive and child health - understand molecular and cellular bases of peri-implantation human development, a period referred to as the “black box” of human embryogenesis, using animal as well as stem cell-based 3D tissue models

Meet Our Team

  • Kenichiro Taniguchi

    Principal Investigator

  • Nikola Sekulovski

    Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Amber Carleton

    PhD student

  • Anusha Rengarajan

    PhD student

  • Maliha Kabir

    PhD student

  • Lauren Elberfeld

    MSTP student

  • Bailey Schultz

    PhD student

  • Linnea Taniguchi

    Research Associate

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Recent News

Happy New Year from the Taniguchi Lab!

We are excited for what’s to come in 2026!

Publication Alert!

The endo-lysosomal system drives lumen formation in a human epiblast model

Rengarajan A, et al., 2025

Publication Alert!

CLDN10-driven lineage decision in an amnion and primordial germ cell progenitor at the amnion-epiblast boundary in primates

Sekulovski NS, et al., 2025

Publication Alert!

Temporally resolved early bone morphogenetic protein-driven transcriptional cascade during human amnion specification.

Sekulovski NS, et al., 2024

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