Project description:Aging is known to alter the host repsonse to influenza infection. Here, we use 10x Visium spatial sequencing to identify spatial changes in mRNA expression of left lungs of young (16-week-old) and aged (80-week-old) mice following influenza infection.
Project description:Aging is known to alter the host repsonse to influenza infection. Here, we use single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) to identify cellular changes in the lungs of young (16-week-old) and aged (80-week-old) mice following influenza infection.
Project description:Aging is known to alter the host repsonse to influenza infection. Here, we use bulk RNA sequencing (bulk RNA-seq) to identify cellular changes in the lungs of young (16-week-old) and aged (80-week-old) mice following influenza infection.
Project description:To identify molecular characteristics of young and aged lungs post-influenza infection, we isolated RNA from lungs 60 days post-infection and examined by bulk RNAseq. We found a large number of genes remain upregulated in aged compared to young lungs. Comparison with expression of immune system-related genes from Nanostring expriments indicated this was largely infection-induced rather than baseline differences between age. This indicates that aged lungs fail to return to homeostasis following a viral respiratory infection
Project description:Aging is known to alter the host repsonse to influenza infection. Here, we use bulk RNA sequencing (bulk RNA-seq) to identify cellular changes in the livers of young (16-week-old) and aged (80-week-old) mice following influenza infection.
Project description:To identify the disparaties of D^b-nucleoprotein specific resident memory CD8 T cells between young and aged mice, we pooled n=11 aged or n=18 young lungs together after intraveounously labeling T cells and sorted ivCD90- CD8a+ CD44hi CD69+ D^b-NP tetramer (PE+ & APC+) cells. By scRNA-seq, we found the aged population was missing a cluster in the young population that resembled typical functional resident memory CD8 T cells indicating that aged resident memory CD8 T cells of this specificity would have poor recall function.