James H. Clark Center 318 Campus Drive West, Stanford, CA 94305
Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Biosciences Seminar
SHIRLEY VILLADIEGO, JOHNSON AND JOHNSON
Methods for culturing mammalian cells in a biologically relevant context are increasingly needed to study cell and tissue physiology, expand and differentiate progenitor cells, and to grow replacement tissues for regenerative medicine.
Chronic itch conditions, such as those arising from atopic dermatitis, psoriasis, renal and liver diseases, drug treatment, significantly affects the quality of the patients’ lives.
Methods for culturing mammalian cells in a biologically relevant context are increasingly needed to study cell and tissue physiology, expand and differentiate progenitor cells, and to grow replacement tissues for regenerative medicine.
Individual cells in a population are often somewhat different from one to another. Measurements made on bulk cell populations do not capture the inherent heterogeneity of the cell population, and important insights can be missed.
Dr. Fishell's talk will be roughly one hour. The pre-seminar will introduce basic concepts and background for non-experts. Registered students must attend all pre-seminars and sign in for credit; all other guests are welcome.
We identified cells within human adult tissue that can acquire a phenotypic plastic state. These rare cells can be directly isolated and shown to exhibit extensive lineage plasticity creating functional derivatives of heart, brain, bone, cartilage, gut and many more tissues.
