BMI Distinguished Seminar // Evan Macosko: Spatial and Single Cell Genomics for Next Generation Neuroscience
The advent of next generation sequencing ushered in a ten-year period of exuberant technology development, enabling the quantification of gene expression and epigenetic features within individual cells, and within intact tissue sections. In this seminar, I will outline our technological contributions, beginning with the development of Drop-seq, a method for high-throughput single cell analysis, followed by the development of Slide-seq, a technique for measuring genome-wide expression at 10 micron spatial resolution. Using a combination of these techniques, we recently constructed a comprehensive cell type atlas of the adult mouse brain, positioning cell types within individual brain structures. I will discuss the major findings from this dataset, including emerging principles of neurotransmission, and the localization of disease gene signatures to specific cell types. Finally, I will introduce a new spatial technology, Slide-tags, that unifies single cell and spatial genomics into a single, highly scalable assay.
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- SV BMI Host: G. La Manno