Project description:The freshwater planarian Schmidtea mediterranea is well known by its amazing regeneration capabilities thanks to the presence of adult stem cells, the neoblasts, the only proliferative cells and responsible for the differentiation in all the cell types of the organism. This study involves the creation of separated transcript libraries from both, isolated neoblasts and differentiated cells, as well as their posterior sequencing and quantification through Digital Gene Expression (DGE) for the characterization of the neoblast transcriptome.
Project description:The freshwater planarian Schmidtea mediterranea is well known by its amazing regeneration capabilities thanks to the presence of adult stem cells, the neoblasts, the only proliferative cells and responsible for the differentiation in all the cell types of the organism. This study involves the creation of separated transcript libraries from both, isolated neoblasts and differentiated cells, as well as their posterior sequencing and quantification through Digital Gene Expression (DGE) for the characterization of the neoblast transcriptome. Three DGE libraries were produced from FACS isolated cell populations X1 (proliferating stem cells, S/G2/M), X2 (a mix of proliferating stem cells and stem cell progeny, G0/G1) and Xin (differentiated cells, G0/G1). Cells were isolated from a pool of 32 regenerating animals two days after being cut off pre- and post-pharingeally to trigger regeneration and neoblast proliferation.
Project description:Identification of differentially expressed genes in intestinal phagocytes, compared to non-intestinal cells in Schmidtea mediterranea.
Project description:Investigation of whole genome gene expression level changes in nanos(RNAi) Schmidtea mediterranea, compared to control animals. nanos(RNAi) animals are devoid of germ cells The samples analyzed in this study are further described in Wang, Y., Stary, JM., Wilhelm, JE. and Newmark, PA. 2010.
Project description:Investigation of whole genome gene expression level changes in nanos(RNAi) Schmidtea mediterranea, compared to control animals. nanos(RNAi) animals are devoid of germ cells The samples analyzed in this study are further described in Wang, Y., Stary, JM., Wilhelm, JE. and Newmark, PA. 2010. A eight chip study using total RNA recovered from asexual nanos(RNAi), asexual control, juvenile sexual nanos(RNAi), and juvenile sexual control animals. Each chip measures the expression level of 16,797 ESTs from S. mediterranea with 10 60-mer probe pairs (PM/MM) per gene, with two-fold technical redundancy.