BIG Summer Research Seminar: Jimmy Hu, Assistant Professor in the Division of Oral Biology & Medicine at the UCLA School of Dentistry

Boyer 159 611 Charles E. Young Dr. E., Los Angeles, CA, United States

TITLE: "Building a tooth from transcriptome to tissue morphogenesis" ABSTRACT: During craniofacial development, the oral epithelium begins as a morphologically homogeneous tissue that gives rise to locally complex structures, including the teeth, salivary glands, and taste buds. How the epithelium is initially patterned and later shaped to generate diverse organ and cell types remains largely […]

BIG Summer Research Seminar: Xia Yang, Professor, Integrative Biology and Physiology Molecular and Medical Pharmacology at UCLA

Boyer 159 611 Charles E. Young Dr. E., Los Angeles, CA, United States

TITLE: "Single Cell Multiomics Integration to Understand Complex Diseases." ABSTRACT: Recent advances in single cell multiomics technologies such as single cell RNA-seq, single cell ATAC-seq, and spatial transcriptomics have brought enormous opportunities that enable our understanding of the molecular underpinnings of pathophysiology at a single cell or cell type resolution. However, integrative analysis across single […]

BIG Summer Research Seminar: Eric Deeds, Associate Professor, Integrative Biology & Physiology – Vice Chair, Life Sciences Core at UCLA

Boyer 159 611 Charles E. Young Dr. E., Los Angeles, CA, United States

TITLE: "A lack of distinct cellular identities in scRNA-seq data: revisiting Waddington’s landscape." ABSTRACT: Single-cell RNA sequencing is revolutionizing our understanding of development, differentiation and disease. Analysis of this data is often challenging, however, and tasks like clustering cells to uncover distinct cellular identities sometimes yields results that fail to align with existing biological knowledge. We analyzed […]