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  3. Organism-level Systems Biology by Next-generation Genetics and Whole-organ Cell Profiling
The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
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Organism-level Systems Biology by Next-generation Genetics and Whole-organ Cell Profiling

Add to CalendarAmerica/New_YorkOrganism-level Systems Biology by Next-generation Genetics and Whole-organ Cell Profiling11/09/2018 9:00 pm11/09/2018 10:00 pm46-3002
November 9, 2018
9:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Location
46-3002
Contact
Brittany Greenough
Host
Kwanghun Chung
    Description

    The system-level identification and analysis of molecular and cellular networks in mammals can be accelerated by 'next-generation' genetics, defined as genetics that does not require crossing of multiple generations of animals to achieve the desired genetic makeup. We recently established a highly efficient procedure for producing knock-out (KO) mice by ‘Triple-CRISPR’ method that targets a single gene by triple gRNAs in the CRISPR/Cas9 system achieves almost perfect KO efficiency (96%-100%). We also established a highly efficient procedure for producing knock-in (KI) mice within a single generation, by ‘ES-mouse’ method, where we treat ES cells using three inhibitors to keep their potency and then inject such ES cells into 8-cell-stage embryos. These procedures dramatically shorten the time required to produce KO or KI mice from about a couple of year down to ∼3 months. The produced KO and KI mice can be also systematically profiled at a single-cell resolution by whole-organ cell profiling realized by a tissue-clearing method ‘CUBIC’ and the advanced light-sheet microscopy. In this talk, I will describe the establishment and application of these technologies to analyze three states (NREM Sleep, REM sleep and awake) of mammalian brains and discuss the current challenges and future opportunities in next-generation mammalian genetics and whole-organ cell profiling for organism-level systems biology.

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    Dr. Hiroki R. Ueda was born in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1975. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, the University of Tokyo in 2000, and obtained his Ph.D in 2004 from the same university. He was appointed as a team leader in RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB) from 2003 and promoted to be a project leader at RIKEN CDB in 2009, and to be a group director at RIKEN Quantitative Biology Center (QBiC) in 2011. He became a professor of Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo in 2013. He is currently appointed as a team leader in RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR), an affiliate professor in Graduate School of Information Science and Technology and an principle investigator in IRCN (International Research Center for Neurointelligence) in the University of Tokyo, an invited professor in Osaka University, and a visiting professor in Tokushima University.

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