Project description:Characterization of the signaling requirements to determine primitive streak and neuroectoderm fates in mouse embryonic stem cells.
Project description:RNA-seq of mouse embryonic stem cells differentiated to the three germ layers and an epiblast stem cell-like state; RNA-seq of mouse tissues
Project description:Human pluripotent cell lines were derived from blastocyst-stage embryos and propagated in self-renewal conditions that maintain features of naive pluripotency characteristic of mouse embryonic stem cells. Genomic integrity of the HNES1 cell line was assessed with the Affymetrix CytoScan 750K array.
Project description:Human pluripotent cell lines were derived from blastocyst-stage embryos and propagated in self-renewal conditions that maintain features of naive pluripotency characteristic of mouse embryonic stem cells. Genome-wide DNA methylation status of HNES1 and HNES3 naive and primed cells was assessed with post-bisulfite adapter tagging (PBAT).
Project description:To elucidate the interplay between signal transduction and transcriptional regulation in cellular reprogramming, distinct induction routes from epiblast stem cells to naïve pluripotency were evaluated and compared.
Project description:Many neurological and psychiatric disorders affect the cerebral cortex, and a clearer understanding of the molecular processes underlying human corticogenesis will provide greater insight into such pathologies. To date, knowledge of gene expression changes accompanying corticogenesis is largely based on murine data. Here we present a searchable, comprehensive, temporal gene expression dataset encompassing cerebral cortical development from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs). Using a modified differentiation protocol and RNA-Seq technology with computational analysis, we identified sets of genes and long non-coding RNAs that significantly change during corticogenesis, and those enriched for disease-associations. Numerous alternatively-spliced genes with varying temporal patterns of expression are revealed, including TGIF1, involved in holoprosencephaly and MARK1, involved in autism. We have created a database (http://cortecon.neuralsci.org) that provides online, query-based access to changes in RNA expression and alternatively spliced transcripts during human cortical development. Nine timepoints (days 0,7,12,19,26,33,49,63,77) covering human corticogenesis from embyronic stem cells.
Project description:Neural formation from ES cells provides a novel system for studying axonogenesis in projection neurons. We used microarrays to clarify the global gene expression patterns of ES-derived motoneurons and compared with the parental undifferentiated ES cells. HB9-GFP ES cells on day 7 were mechanically pipetted into small cell clumps and concentrated to a density of approximately 1Ã104 cells/μl in neural differentiation medium. The animals received total laminectomy from T8 to T10. Total RNA was extracted from the undifferentiated ES cells (1531), the sorted HB9-GFP+ cells (1557), the sorted sox1 neural stem cells (1602) and the mouse cerebellar granule cells (1532) on postnatal day 6 and performed hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays.
Project description:Human ES (H9) cells were directed towards a neuromesodermal progenitor-like cell state and these cells were then subsequently differentiated towards a neural cell fate. Human ES cells (H9) were differentiated into neuromesodermal progenitor-like cells by culturing in Neurobasal/1x N2/1x B27 medium (N2/B27) supplemented with 20 ng/ml bFgf and 3 μM CHIR99021 for 3 days and exposure to dual SMAD inhibition (dSMADi) (Noggin 50 ng/ml and the TGFb receptor type 1 inhibitor SB431542 10 μM) during day 3 (D3). Transcriptome analysis was then carried out following a selection procedure to enrich for NMP-like cells (sD3/NMP-like). This involved use of a hES (H9) cell line engineered with CRISPR-Cas9 to express GFP under the control of the endogenous Nkx1.2 promoter. At the end of day 3 cells were selected for high GFP expression, as high Nkx1.2 transcription is characteristic of NMP cell populations in mouse and chick embryos. These cells were then lysed and RNA extracted for RNASeq. Humans ES cells (H9) differentiated into NMP-like cells as above (without selection) were also allowed to develop further on day 4 (in the presence of dSMADi and Retinoic acid (RA) 100nM, in N2/B27) and then in RA alone until end of day 8 (D8). These cells were then lysed and RNA extracted for RNASeq.