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: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: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:This experiment comprises RNA-seq data used to study evolutionary differences between humans and mice in neuronal activity-dependent transcriptional responses. Activity-dependent transcriptional responses in developing human stem cell-derived cortical neurons were compared with those induced in developing primary- or stem cell-derived mouse cortical neurons 4 hours after KCl-induced membrane depolarisation. Activity-dependent transcriptional responses were also measured in aneuploid mouse neurons carrying human chromosome 21, allowing study of the regulation of Hsa21 genes, plus their mouse orthologs, side-by-side in the same cellular environment of a mouse primary neuron.
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.
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:Stem cell-derived tissues have wide potential for modelling developmental and pathological processes as well as cell-based therapy. However, it has proven difficult to generate several key cell types in vitro, including skeletal muscle. In vertebrates, skeletal muscles derive during embryogenesis from the presomitic mesoderm (PSM). Using PSM development as a guide, we establish conditions for the differentiation of monolayer cultures of mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells into PSM-like cells without the introduction of transgenes or cell sorting. We differentiated mouse ESCs in serum-free medium supplemented with Rspo3 ( or as an alternative with Chir 9902) and the Bmp inhibitor LDN193189. In vivo, the PSM cells are first expressing Msgn1 (posterior PSM marker) and then mature to express Pax3 (anterior PSM marker). After 4 days of differentiation of mESCs, Msgn1-positive cells were FACS-sorted and their transcriptome analyzed. After 6 days of differentiation, Pax3-positive cells were sorted and their transcriptome analyzed. Mouse ESCs differentiated for 0, 4 and 6 days in serum-free medium containing a Wnt activator, a BMP inhibitor and DMSO, to study paraxial mesoderm in vitro