Project description:Single-cell RNA-seq dataset of models of human embryo adhesion in a microfluidic platform (ADOC). Embryo adhesion represents the first step of implantation, yet understanding this process has been hindered by the lack of human in vitro platforms that replicate endometrial physiology. Here, we present a dual-channel microfluidic platform containing organoid-derived endometrial epithelium and primary stromal cells. Our model recapitulates important endometrial hallmarks including epithelial polarization, stromal decidualization, extracellular vesicle release, and hormone-induced receptivity. We tested its function by introducing mouse and human blastocysts and showed that embryos displayed features of initial adhesion. These included establishment of embryo-epithelial contacts initiated via the polar trophectoderm, inner cell mass repositioning, and lineage segregation. Moreover, human embryos secreted βhCG indicating a functional trophoblast. Thus, this work provides a platform to study key features of embryo adhesion and endometrial receptivity, and disorders affecting embryo-endometrium interactions.
Project description:This project used snRNA-seq and Molecular Cartography (single cell spatial transcriptomics) to investigate the relation between morphology and molecular identity in human brain organoids.
Project description:We derived primary, epithelial-enriched organoids from 120 PCD human fetal lung, specifically from trachea, bronchus, non-cartilaginous airway, and distal airway. These positional airway organoids were grown in FANY airway media for the duration of 2 passages before collection for single-nucleus RNA sequencing (n = 1 biological replicate).
Project description:To investigate signaling pathways regulating human pancreas differentiation and morphogenesis, we developed a high-content image-based screen and quantitative multivariate analysis pipelines robust to heterogeneity to extract single-cell and organoid features using pancreatic progenitor organoids. Among the 54 hit compounds, we found that GSK3A/B inhibition via WNT signaling has a global reversible effect on cell identity, repressing pancreatic progenitor markers and inducing a poised state of progenitors transitioning to acinar cells. We show that additional FGF repression enables further differentiation of acinar cells recapitulating pancreatic acini morphogenesis and functions . This dataset compares human pancreas organoids produced from pluripotent stem cells by RNA-Seq in expansion conditions in the presence of DMSO (control) to those exposed for 7 days to CHIR99021 or CHIR99021 in the absence of the FGF2 normally included in the expansion medium.
Project description:Hematopoiesis in embryonic and adult life is the process of producing blood cells. In mammalian embryos, hematopoiesis occurs in three consecutive overlapping waves (Neo et al. 2021; Dzierzak and Bigas 2018) and is regulated by transcription factors (TFs) and signaling molecules. In this study, we investigated the function of three relatively poorly studied TFs in early embryonic hematopoietic development at single-cell resolution: Activating transcription factor 3 (Atf3), Zinc finger protein 711 (Zfp711), and B cell CLL/lymphoma 6, member B (Bcl6b) respectively. We observed that these three TFs are upregulated early in development when hematopoietic and endothelial lineages separate from cardiac and other mesodermal lineages. To study the roles of these TFs in a rapidly changing system with diverse cell types and small cell populations during early developmental stages, we employed multiplexed single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) of TF knockouts (KO) of in vitro differentiating mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs) and also capturing changes with Flow Cytometric Analysis (FCA). This approach offered a valuable method to dissect the functions of these TFs in lineage induction, specification, and separation, providing access to sufficient numbers of various progenitor cells. We adapted available multiplexing technology for single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) -multiplexing knockouts (KO) and Control conditions with biological replicates-, accompanied by Flow Cytometric Analysis (FCA) to study the role of three TFs in early embryonic hematopoietic development. Using this adaptation, the depth and coverage of this study can be placed between large-scale multiplexed CRISPR-based perturbation studies covering multiple candidate genes together (Datlinger et al. 2017; Jaitin et al. 2016; Dixit et al. 2016; Adamson et al. 2016) and single gene perturbation studies, which focus on the in-depth function/role of a particular gene with multiple experimental procedures (Harland et al. 2021). With adapted methodology, we studied the role of the three TF genes at once in a cost-efficient manner in one experiment by including three biological replicates to minimize false positive results, to capture a sufficient number of cells to detect changes in low abundance cell types, to minimize the creation of potential batch effects (e.g., each replicates creates a separate library) and prevent the loss of biological information during computational integration steps by skipping computational integration step. Following the scRNA-seq analysis, our findings are compared with publicly available datasets to categorize our findings. This categorized information can be used as a launching pad for future in-depth follow-up studies investigating the roles of these three TFs in hematoendothelial development.
Project description:Haematopoietic and endothelial cells derive from a subset of Flk-1 expressing cells. In vitro differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs) to embryoid bodies (EBs) recapitulate several aspects of early embryonic development. We previously identified three candidate uncharacterized Riken genes (I830077J02Rik, C130074G19Rik and A530016L24Rik) potentially important for the cell lineage commitment toward haematopoietic precursors. Here, we investigate the transcriptomic profiles of cells depleted for these genes at day 7 of embryoid body differentiation, by scRNA-seq.
Project description:An in vitro differentiation system using mouse embryonic stem cells to capture multiple differentiation timepoints: days 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 as scMultiome (ATAC+RNA) and days 0, 2, and 4 as scRNA-seq. scMultiome libraries were generated using the Single Cell Multiome ATAC + Gene Expression v1 chemistry, and scRNA-seq libraries were generated using the Single Cell 3' v3 chemistry. Nuclei isolation for scMultiome was performed using a modified 0.1X lysis protocol from 10x Genomics protocol CG000366, with the digitonin concentration adjusted from 0.001% to 0.005%.