Yu-Hwa Lo,
Professor,
University of California San Diego
Yuhwa Lo received his PhD in electrical engineering from UC Berkeley. He has been a professor of University of California, San Diego since 1999. He is also the director of the UCSD Nano3 (Nanoscience, Nanoengineering, Nanomedicine) Facility. His research interests include microfluidics, lab on a chip, biosensors, biomedical instrument, biophotonics, nanophotonic and optoelectronic devices. He has around 400 publications and been award 31 patents. He is a fellow of the IEEE and the Optical Society of America.
Single Cell Analysis For Personalized and Precision Medicine
Friday, 6 October 2017 at 12:00
Add to Calendar ▼2017-10-06 12:00:002017-10-06 13:00:00Europe/LondonSingle Cell Analysis For Personalized and Precision MedicineRNA-Seq, Single Cell Analysis and Single Molecule Analysis 2017 in Coronado Island, CaliforniaCoronado Island, CaliforniaSELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com
Single-cell analysis promises to unveil the underpinnings of biological processes that have evaded detection because it enables sensitive and accurate quantification of single-cell properties amidst biological samples with known, but difficult to quantify, heterogeneity (e.g. cancer stem cells in tumor tissue). In the era of personalized and precision medicine, increasing evidence has shown the critical roles of “significant minorities” as they are often responsible for drug resistance, metastasis, and activation/suppression of immuno-response while the unique characteristics of these minority cells are masked by measurements of ensemble average. With the rapid advances in high throughput assays and genomic analyses including qPCR and next generation sequencing technologies, the idea of studying individual cell properties is now within reach. However, there still exist substantial technological challenges to produce single cell assays to unleash its full potential for applications in biomarker discovery, drug design, and precision and personalized medicine. What is missing in today’s single-cell assays is a high-throughput, hierarchical and rational cell selection and screening process to determine “what type of cells” are of biological and pathological significance and therefore worth detailed genomic analysis: the phenotype-genotype problem. Another blind spot for today’s single-cell assays is that few single-cell assays can relate cell secretion phenotype to genomic analysis even though it is widely recognized that cytokine and exosome secretion play critical roles in cell behaviors. The presentation will be focused on the above challenges with the goal of developing a low-cost single-cell assay that can generate diverse single cell phenotype information to support the rationale of final selection for genomic analysis. This phenotypic information includes cell viability, morphology, proliferation rate, exosome production, surface protein markers, gene expression, and secretion of proteins, cytokines, etc. The approach will enable a single-cell assay that produces end-to-end results to support personalized and precision medicine.
Add to Calendar ▼2017-10-05 00:00:002017-10-06 00:00:00Europe/LondonRNA-Seq, Single Cell Analysis and Single Molecule Analysis 2017RNA-Seq, Single Cell Analysis and Single Molecule Analysis 2017 in Coronado Island, CaliforniaCoronado Island, CaliforniaSELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com
Add to Calendar ▼2017-10-06 12:00:002017-10-06 13:00:00Europe/LondonSingle Cell Analysis For Personalized and Precision MedicineRNA-Seq, Single Cell Analysis and Single Molecule Analysis 2017 in Coronado Island, CaliforniaCoronado Island, CaliforniaSELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com
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