He studies how structural changes to chromosomes impact gene expression and
cell fate with a focus telomere, telomerase, and chromosomal stability, epigenetic proteins, and the role of the SOSS complex in DNA damage repair.
Not exact matches
The event will be headlined by a world title match between Triple H and Roman Reigns, as well as a Hell in a
Cell match between Undertaker and Shane McMahon,
with the
fate of WWE hanging in the balance.
Molecular characterization of the
cells that undergo
cell fate transition upon oncogenic Pik3ca expression demonstrated a profound oncogene - induced reprogramming of these newly formed
cells and identified gene expression signatures, characteristic of the different
cell fate switches, which was predictive of the cancer
cell of origin, tumour type and clinical outcomes in women
with breast cancers.
They discovered novel mechanisms in
cells with the ability to activate pathways that crosstalk one to another and then assemble consolidated responses that decide
cell fate.
Her research team placed the evolutionarily conserved castor (Cas) gene, which encodes a zinc finger protein, in a genetic circuit
with two other evolutionarily conserved genes, hedgehog (Hh) and eyes absent (Eya), to determine the
fates of specific
cell progeny (daughters).
Shah's stem
cells escape this
fate because they are made
with a mutation that doesn't allow the toxin to act inside the
cell.
«It was once believed that effector and memory
cells arose as two distinct populations,
with some
cells initially
fated to be effector type and some to be memory,» McDonald said.
Using her new culture system, she joined forces
with colleagues to research which
cells in an embryo contribute to which parts of the adult animal, a process called
fate - mapping.
The images depict what might be called embryology in flagrante: micrographs of sperm
cells, trailing accordion - like pleats of white zags as they streak across a vast blue ocean of ooplasm; a multihued blastocyst in the process of hatching out of the egg's zona pellucida; and egg
cells with a fringe of glowing,
fate - determining proteins, looking a bit like a solar eclipse inside a
cell.
An asymmetric
cell division in non-stem
cells can instead result in two daughter
cells with very different
fates, such as one large
cell that reinitiates
cell division prematurely and a much smaller
cell that either grows very slowly or dies.
The genetic and environmental cues that determine the
cell's
fate can be thought of as inputs,
with the
cell itself as the processor, Dunn says.
COURTESY SHENDURE AND SCHIER LABS CRISPR FOR
FATE - MAPPING Researcher: Jay Shendure, Professor, Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington Project: In collaboration
with Alexander Schier's lab at Harvard University, Shendure's group came up
with a new way to trace
cell lineages in
cell culture and in whole organisms — in this case, developing zebrafish.
Dietmar J. Kappes discovers a mouse
with a mutation in a master regulator gene controlling T
cell fate.
With our unique robotic microscope technology, can we identify the major determinants of
cell fate during normal development of stem
cells and in neurodegenerative disease?
FATE MAPPING
WITH CRISPR: Thanks to a new tool called GESTALT, researchers can now introduce a 300 - base - pair lineage barcode into
cells and, using the CRISPR - Cas9 system, allow edits to accumulate as those
cells divide.
Discussion themes included: - stem
cell heterogeneity - stem
cell fate decisions - stem
cells in regeneration & development - stem
cells in disease & treatment - stem
cell related bioengineering & biomaterial - theoretical stem
cell biology - mathematical modelling
with a focus (but no restriction) on neural stem
cells, hematopoietic stem
cells and diabetes.
Critical issues include: (i) heterogeneity in stem
cell populations (ii) regulation of
cell fate choices; (iii) declining tissue performance
with age and exposure to environmental injuries; (iv) the use of iPS and Embryonic Stem (ES)
cells, and reprogramming methods for phenotyping disease states and potential use of these stem
cells in the clinic.
The sorting out of
cells with different identities and
fates during animal development is an important process to organize functional tissues and organs.
Genetic approaches in mouse model systems combined
with cell biological assays have allowed Professor Lukas Sommer to identify mechanisms regulating stem
cell fates in the developing CNS and in neural crest - derived tissues.
In collaboration
with experimental groups we use methods from statistical physics to study mechanisms of
cell fate regulation in tissue development, maintenance and disease.
I am a postdoctoral fellow
with the Garner lab employing high - resolution microscopy in live bacteria and archaea towards the understanding of the
cell cycle
fate.
The lab will be focused on the identification of cellular and molecular events regulating hematopoietic
cell fate decisions
with emphasis on DC development.
In vertebrates, this segregation depends on canonical Wnt signaling,
with β - catenin — positive
cells preferentially adopting a paraxial
fate and position (12).
Next, we identified genes whose expression was associated
with Th1 or Tfh
fates, and demonstrated a T -
cell intrinsic role for Galectin - 1 in supporting a Th1 differentiation.
The new, US patent credits the Whitehead Institute's Rudolf Jaenisch, a scientific founder
with Fate Therapeutics who licensed the technology to the company, and his former postdoc Konrad Hochedlinger, now at the Massachusetts General Hospital,
with inventing a method for reprogramming
cells
Eschewing the trappings of the biopic — psychology, cult of the hero — Assayas catches Carlos (Edgar Ramirez) mid-stream, between the
fated year 1973 (Four Concepts of Psychoanalysis, coup in Chile), when Waddie Haddad (Ahmad Kaabour) makes him number two in the European network of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP); and 1994, when he is snatched in a Khartoum hospital by the French Secret Services who promptly brought him to stand trial in Paris: no cute or sinister growing - up tales, no face - to - face
with oneself within the four walls of a
cell.
We didn't want to turn on our
cell phones because we were traveling internationally — and the trip was so short that it didn't make sense to get a local SIM card — so we spent the next two hours awaiting our
fate, unsure if the security office would be able to get in touch
with the apartment owner.