{"id":86,"date":"2021-04-03T00:52:09","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T04:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saimalab.com\/?page_id=86"},"modified":"2024-11-18T13:14:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T17:14:09","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/saimalab.com\/index.php\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Developing cutting-edge single-cell sequencing approaches to probe gene regulation mechanisms and cell fate transitions in development and diseases<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-vivid-red-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:22px\">Technology development<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\" style=\"font-size:18px\">We are keen on developing sequencing technologies to probe epigenenetic landscapes in tiny amounts of&nbsp;samples, single-cells and <em>in situ<\/em>, which provides a means to better understand the gene regulation mechanisms in complex tissues. We have developed <a href=\"https:\/\/advances.sciencemag.org\/content\/4\/4\/eaar8187\" title=\"https:\/\/advances.sciencemag.org\/content\/4\/4\/eaar8187\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SurfaceChIP<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41551-018-0204-3\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41551-018-0204-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MID-RRBS<\/a> for ultra-sensitive genome-wide histone modification and DNA methylation profiling from hundreds of cells. We also developed simultaneous high-throughput ATAC and RNA expression with sequencing (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0092867420312538\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0092867420312538\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SHARE-seq<\/a>), a powerful powerful approach for co-profiling chromatin and RNA from the same single cells. We are actively developing tools to further understand the interaction between different modalities (multi-&#8216;omics&#8217;) and its impact on cell behavior.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:18px\">8 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:22px\">Gene regulation inference in cell differentiation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">One of the most fundamental questions in biology is to understand how the cells spontaneously grow and proliferate, and how the cells respond to external stimulation. For example, when experiencing chronic stress or acute stress, the diverse skin populations respond quite differently which leads to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-021-03417-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hair loss<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-020-1935-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hair greying<\/a>. Leveraging sequencing technologies and other approaches, we demonstrated the molecular driver underlying the stress response. We also developed a computational approach, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0092867420312538\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chromatin potential<\/a>, to infer the lineage-fate choice of skin stem cells during cell fate transition. I will continuously investigate the mechanism of cell fate shift by building new computational tools and exploring the cell behavior under other stimulations.                 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">                                                                                                    .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-vivid-red-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:22px\">Genetic clues in aging and cancers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">Leveraging single-cell measurement across cancer progression and aging, we seek to identify the molecular driver underlying these intricate processes. We are particularly interested in lung cancers, hematopoietic malignancies, and skin and brain aging. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developing cutting-edge single-cell sequencing approaches to probe gene regulation mechanisms and cell fate transitions in development and diseases Technology development We are keen on developing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full-width-page.php","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-86","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saimalab.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saimalab.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saimalab.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saimalab.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saimalab.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":153,"href":"https:\/\/saimalab.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1650,"href":"https:\/\/saimalab.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86\/revisions\/1650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saimalab.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}