📍 The immunoregulatory architecture of the adult oral cavity Matuck et al. presented the first integrated atlas of human adult oral and craniofacial tissues, derived from scRNA sequencing and spatial transcriptomics panels. Key findings ✅8 tissue cellular neighborhoods (TCNs) and 17 multicellular interaction modules (MCIMs) across gland and mucosae in health ✅Diverse fibrovascular TCNs as centralized hubs, coordinating immune cell migration and activation ✅Mucosal hubs within stroma displaying higher immune cell density, diversity, and activation than glands ✅A specialized biogeography of immunoregulation in keratinized and nonkeratinized mucosae, common fibrovascular hubs, and MCIMs ✅Fragmentation of mucosal TCNs and reorganization and expanding fibroblast and immune MCIMs under chronic inflammation. ➡️ More details: https://lnkd.in/e6-38m5f #spatialomics #spatialbiology #singlecellanalysis #singlecell
Association for Single Cell Analysis (ASCA)
Biotechnology Research
A global community of professionals who use different methods of single cell analysis
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The ASCA mission is "The increase in educational level and scientific communication in the field of single cell analysis in order to accelerate investigations of biological objects and to understand mechanisms of disease development". To stay up to date with the key news from the single cell analysis world, follow us at our Telegram channels: 🔸News (https://t.me/ascanews), where you can get information about new methods in single-cell analysis, bright single-cell researches, meetings, etc. 🔸Chat (https://t.me/ascatalk), where you can get technical support in single-cell analysis (just ask your question here) and communicate with other ASCA members.
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External link for Association for Single Cell Analysis (ASCA)
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- Biotechnology Research
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
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- Nonprofit
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- 2022
Employees at Association for Single Cell Analysis (ASCA)
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Evgeny Denisov
Head of Cancer Progression Biology (Tomsk NRMC) and Single Cell Biology (RUDN) Labs | ASCA President | Single Cell Enthusiast | Beating Cancer…
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Chakit Arora, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher at Scuola Normale Superiore, Bioinformatics | Computational Biology
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Anastasia Frolova
ASCA (Association for Single Cell Analysis)
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Tatiana Denisova
Updates
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📍 Resolving plant development in space and time with single-cell genomics Nolan and Shahan summarized the benefits and current challenges of single-cell genomics technologies to probe the transcriptional regulation of plant development. Key points 🔹Producing time-resolved datasets to map cell responses to stimuli 🔹Combination of live-imaging and spatial transcriptomic techniques as a powerful spatiotemporal approach to investigate cell plasticity and developmental responses that contribute to plant resilience 🔹Addressing developmental questions by single-cell genomics in the coming years ➡️ More details: https://lnkd.in/eNvQr9DP #DukeUniversity #spatialomics #spatialbiology #singlecellanalysis #singlecell
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📍 Divergence and conservation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells in different species Zhang et al. conducted a comparative transcriptome analysis of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) at the single-cell level across 12 species. Key findings 📍 The cellular compositional features of PBMCs, spanning from fish to mammals 📍 Genes that exhibit vertebrate universality in immune cells 📍 A conserved transcriptional regulatory program in monocytes throughout evolution, 📍 The pivotal role of monocytes in orchestrating immune cells to execute immune programs. ➡️ More details: https://lnkd.in/emhCKgXD #SouthChinaAgriculturalUniversity #SCAU #spatialomics #spatialbiology #singlecellanalysis #singlecell
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📍 Spatial proteomics as Method of the Year by Nature Methods Spatial proteomics is an umbrella term that covers a broad swath of immunohistochemistry-based methods including, but not limited to, cyclic immunofluorescence (cycIF), co-detection by indexing (CODEX), iterative bleaching extends multiplexity (IBEX), multiplexed ion beam imaging (MIBI) and imaging mass cytometry (IMC). ➡️ More information about spatial proteomics and the special issue via https://lnkd.in/epNmXHh9 #spatialomics #spatialbiology #singlecellanalysis #singlecell
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📍 Scaling dense representations for single cell with transcriptome-scale context Ho et al. developed AIDO.Cell, a pretrained module for representing gene expression and cellular systems in an AI-driven Digital Organism. Key points ◾ 3M, 10M, 100M, and 650M parameter encoder-only dense Transformer models ◾ Pre-training on 50 million human cells from diverse tissues using a read-depth-aware masked gene expression pretraining objective ◾ Handling the entire human transcriptome as input without truncation or sampling tricks ◾ Achieving state-of- the-art results in zero-shot clustering, cell-type classification, and perturbation modeling ◾ Available through ModelGenerator in https://lnkd.in/epy_jZc9 and on Hugging Face. ➡️ More details: https://lnkd.in/eEKjYw98 #CMU #CarnegieMellonUniversity #spatialomics #spatialbiology #singlecellanalysis #singlecell
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📍 Cellular and molecular innovations in the anterior cingulate cortex during primate evolution Yuan et al. generated profiles of human and macaque anterior cingulate cortex gene expression and chromatin accessibility at single-nucleus resolution. Highlights 🔸 Cross-species single-nucleus multiome profiling of anterior cingulate cortex 🔸 Dissection of molecular identity and cell-lineage origin of the primate von Economo neurons 🔸 Human-specific von Economo neuron marker genes affect neuron morphogenesis during development 🔸 Human-specific sequence changes account for regulatory divergence during evolution ➡️ More details: https://lnkd.in/ei-3ywqU #ChineseAcademyofSciences #spatialomics #spatialbiology #singlecellanalysis #singlecell
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📍 Cell-type-specific regulation of splicing and autoimmune and inflammatory diseases Tian et al. described cell-type-specific, sex-biased and ancestry-biased alternative splicing in ~1 M peripheral blood mononuclear cells from 474 healthy donors from the Asian Immune Diversity Atlas. Key findings ✔️ Widespread sex-biased and ancestry-biased differential splicing, most of which is cell-type-specific ✔️ 11,577 independent cis-splicing quantitative trait loci (sQTLs), 607 trans-sGenes and 107 dynamic sQTLs ✔️ A cell-type-specific regulatory relationship between HNRNPLL and PTPRC ✔️ An enrichment of cis-sQTL effects in autoimmune and inflammatory disease heritability ✔️ An Asian-specific sQTL disrupting the 5′ splice site of TCHP exon 4 and putatively modulating the risk of Graves’ disease in East Asian populations. ➡️ More details: https://lnkd.in/gy6Q8PTx #UniversityofSingapore #spatialomics #spatialbiology #singlecellanalysis #singlecell
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📌 Focus on single-cell genomics The recent issue of Nature Neuroscience celebrates recent methodological and analytical advances in single-cell genomics, highlights principles of study design, and aims to encourage collaboration between cellular, molecular and systems neuroscientists. Key reviews 📌 Opportunities and challenges of single-cell and spatially resolved genomics methods for neuroscience discovery 📌 Implementation and validation of single-cell genomics experiments in neuroscience 📌 Applying single-cell and single-nucleus genomics to studies of cellular heterogeneity and cell fate transitions in the nervous system. ➡️ More details: https://lnkd.in/e8aqdvPD #spatialomics #spatialbiology #singlecellanalysis #singlecell
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📍 A quantitative, time-resolved model of human T cell fate specification Michaels et al. used genetic perturbations, transcribed lineage barcoding, and advanced computational tools to dissect the gene expression dynamics and cell fate decisions that control T lineage specification from stem cells Highlights 🔹 Pluripotent stem cells are a resource for studying human immune fate specification 🔹 Knocking out YBX1 reduces T lineage output 🔹 Mast potential and myeloid potential diverge early during blood development 🔹 T cells and myeloid cells have a high degree of shared clonal ancestry ➡️ More details: https://lnkd.in/eDnakKNs #UniversityofBritishColumbia #ubc #spatialomics #spatialbiology #singlecellanalysis #singlecell
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📍 The evolutionary dynamics of cancer proliferation in single-cell clones Lucas et al. introduce the SPRINTER algorithm that uses single-cell whole-genome DNA sequencing data to enable accurate identification and clone assignment of S- and G2-phase cells, as assessed by generating accurate ground truth data. Key findings ✔️ Widespread clone proliferation heterogeneity, orthogonally supported by Ki-67 staining, nuclei imaging and clinical imaging ✔️ High-proliferation clones demonstrating increased metastatic seeding potential, increased circulating tumor DNA shedding and clone-specific altered replication timing ✔️ Increased single-cell rates of different genomic variants and enrichment of proliferation-related gene amplifications in high-proliferation clones ➡️ More details: https://lnkd.in/ePjWa3bh #spatialomics #spatialbiology #singlecellanalysis #singlecell