Selected Publications
Nature | 2023 
Pedroza M.*, Gassaloglu SI.*, Dias N., Zhong L., Hou TJ., Kretzmer T., Smith ZD., Sozen B.
Self-patterning of human stem cells into post-implantation lineages
Curr. Opin. in Genetics & Development | 2023
Abel A., Sozen B.
Shifting early embryology paradigms: Applications of stem cell-based embryo models in bioengineering
*themed issue on Early embryonic developmental models
Semin. Cell Dev. Bio | 2022 
Sozen B., Conkar D., Veenvliet V.J.
Carnegie in 4D? Stem-cell-based models of human embryo development
Nature Communications | 2021
Sozen B, Jorgensen V, Weatherbee B, Chen S, Zhu M, Zernicka-Goetz M.
Reconstructing aspects of human embryogenesis with pluripotent stem cells
Scientific Reports | 2021 
Okan A, Demir N, Sozen B.
Unfolded protein response triggers differential apoptotic mechanisms in ovaries and early embryos exposed to maternal type 1 diabetes
Developmental Biology | 2021
Sozen B., Cornwall-Scoones J, Zernicka-Goetz M.
The dynamics of morphogenesis in stem cell-based embryology: Novel insights for symmetry breaking
*Cover image designed for the ‘Synthetic Embryology’ special issue
Developmental Cell | 2019 
Sozen B, Cox A, De Jonghe J, Bao M, Hollfelder F, Glover DM, Zernicka-Goetz M.
Self-organization of mouse stem cells into an extended potential blastoid.
Nature Cell Biology | 2018
Sozen B, Amadei G, Cox A, Wang R, Na E, Czukiewska S, Chappell L, Voet T, Michel G, Jing N, Glover DM, Zernicka-Goetz M.
Self-assembly of embryonic and two extra-embryonic stem cell types into gastrulating embryo-like structures.
*Cover article
Research highlight in Nature Methods | Three tissues to gastrulation
Nature Protocols | 2018
Harrison S*, Sozen B*, Zernicka-Goetz M.
In vitro generation of mouse polarised embryo-like structures from embryonic and trophoblast stem cells.
Science | 2017
Harrison S*, Sozen B*, Christodoulou N, Kyprianou C, Zernicka-Goetz M.
Assembly of embryonic and extraembryonic stem cells to mimic embryogenesis in vitro.
Commentaries:
Science | Embryogenesis in a dish (by Martin Pera)
Nature Methods | It takes two to make an embryo
Cell Research | Reassembling embryos in vitro from component stem cells
Mech. of Development | 2015
Sozen B, Ozturk S, Yaba A, Demir N.
The p38 MAPK pathway is required for glucose metabolism, lineage specification and embryo survival during mouse preimplantation development.
Developmental Biology | 2014
Sozen B, Can A, Demir N.
Cell fate regulation during preimplantation development: A view of adhesion-linked molecular interaction.