Lars Borm is a postdoc in the lab of Stein Aerts, where he focuses on developing spatial technologies and applying them to study development in the fruit fly. 

Lars studied molecular neuroscience before staring a PhD in the lab of Sten Linnarsson, where he focused on developing spatial methods. The first method he developed was called osmFISH, which is a high-sensitivity imaging-based single molecule FISH method to localize and quantify the transcripts of tens of genes in tissue slices. To address throughput challenges with these methods he developed another method called EEL FISH, that uses electricity to blot the RNA from a tissue section onto a glass slide for faster imaging. With this method he studied mouse brain cellular organization and brain development in the human embryo. 

In the Aerts lab he currently focuses on applying spatial methods to unravel the cellular diversification and developmental trajectories of fly development. As well as developing new spatial methods. 

Lars has been teaching spatial transcriptomics in multiple international courses.