2024
The progress of induced pluripotent stem cells derived from pigs: a mini review of recent advances
Neira JA, Conrad JV, Rusteika M, Chu LF. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology 2024 June.
Establishment of Transgene-Free Porcine Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells.
Conrad JV, Neira JA, Rusteika M, Meyer S, Clegg DO, Chu LF. Current Protocols. 2024 May; PMID: 38712688
A High-Quality Blue Whale Genome, Segmental Duplications, and Historical Demography.
Bukhman YV, Morin PA, Meyer S, Chu LF, Jacobsen JK, Antosiewicz-Bourget J, Mamott D, Gonzales M, Argus C, Bolin J, Berres ME, Fedrigo O, Steill J, Swanson SA, Jiang P, Rhie A, Formenti G, Phillippy AM, Harris RS, Wood JMD, Howe K, Kirilenko BM, Munegowda C, Hiller M, Jain A, Kihara D, Johnston JS, Ionkov A, Raja K, Toh H, Lang A, Wolf M, Jarvis ED, Thomson JA, Chaisson MJP, Stewart R. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 2024 Mar; PMID:38376487
Chromosome level genome assembly of the Etruscan shrew Suncus etruscus.
Bukhman YV, Meyer S, Chu LF, Abueg L, Antosiewicz-Bourget J, Balacco J, Brecht M, Dinatale E, Fedrigo O, Formenti G, Fungtammasan A, Giri SJ, Hiller M, Howe K, Kihara D, Mamott D, Mountcastle J, Pelan S, Rabbani K, Sims Y, Tracey A, Wood JMD, Jarvis ED, Thomson JA, Chaisson MJP, Stewart R. Scientific Data. 2024 Feb 7; PMID: 38326333
Ramesh, P. S. and Chu LF. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology 2024 Jan; PMID: 38348091
2023
Conrad, J. V., Meyer, S., Ramesh, P. S., Neira, J. A., Rusteika, M., Mamott, D., Duffin, B., Zhang, J., Hiles, E., Higgins, E., Bautista, M., Steill, J., Freeman, J., Stewart, R., Thompson, J. A., & Chu LF. Stem Cell Reports 2023 Dec; PMID: 37949072
On Research Square: A high-quality blue whale genome, segmental duplications, and historical demography
2022
Seirup M, Sengupta S, Swanson S, McIntosh E, Colins M, Chu LF, Cheng Z, Gorkin DU, Duffin B, Bolin JM, Argus C, Stewart R, Thomson JA. Rapid changes in chromatin structure during dedifferentiation of primary hepatocytes in vitro. Genomics 2022 Mar; PMID: 35278615
Deshpande A, Chu LF, Stewart R and Gitter A. Network Inference with Granger Causality Ensembles on Single-Cell Transcriptomics. Cell Reports 2022 Feb; PMID: 35139376
Bacher R, Chu LF, Argus C, Bolin JM, Knight P, Thomson JA, Stewart R, Kendziorski C. Enhancing biological signals and detection rates in single-cell RNA-seq experiments with cDNA library equalization. Nucleic Acids Research 2022 Jan; PMID: 34850101
2020
On bioRxiv: Bacher R, Chu LF, Argus C, Bolin JM, Knight P, Thomson JA, Stewart R, Kendziorski C. (2020). Enhancing biological signals and detection rates in single-cell RNA-seq experiments with cDNA library equalization.
On bioRxiv: Seirup M, Sengupta S, Swanson S, McIntosh E, Colins M, Chu LF, Cheng Z, Gorkin DU, Duffin B, Bolin JM, Argus C, Stewart R, Thomson JA. Rapid changes in chromatin structure during dedifferentiation of primary hepatocytes in vitro.
On bioRxiv: Deshpande A, Chu LF, Stewart R and Gitter A. Network Inference with Granger Causality Ensembles on Single-Cell Transcriptomic Data.
Seirup M, Chu LF, Sengupta S, Leng N, Browder H, Kapadia K, Shafer CM, Duffin B, Elwell AL, Bolin JM, Swanson SA, Stewart R, Kendziorski C, Thomson JA, Bacher R. Reproducibility across single-cell RNA-seq protocols for spatial ordering analysis. PLoS One. 2020 Sep; PMID: 32986734.
2019
Chu LF†, Mamott D, Ni Z, Bacher R, Liu C, Swanson S, Kendziorski C, Stewart R and Thomson JA†. An in vitro human segmentation clock model derived from embryonic stem cells. Cell Reports. 2019; PMID: 31461642. †Co-corresponding author
In the News, Human Developmental Clock Mimicked in a Dish: Morgridge Institute for Research, EurekAlert!, Neuroscience News, Sleep Review, Labroots
Joseph DB, Chandrashekar AS, Abler LL, Chu LF, Thomson JA and Vezina CM. Epithelial DNA methyltransferase-1 regulates cell survival, growth and maturation in developing prostatic buds. Developmental Biology. 2019. PMID:30659795.
Joseph DB, Chandrashekar AS, Chu LF, Thomson JA and Vezina CM. A folic acid-enriched diet attenuates prostate involution in response to androgen deprivation. Prostate. 2018.PMID:30298636.
2018
Bacher R, Leng N, Chu LF, Thomson JA Kendziorski C Stewart R. Trendy: Segmented regression analysis of expression dynamics for high-throughput ordered profiling experiments. BMC Bioinformatics. 2018. PMID:30326833.
Joseph DB, Chandrashekar AS, Abler LL, Chu LF, Thomson JA, Mendelsohn C, Vezina CM. In vivo replacement of damaged bladder urothelium by Wolffian duct epithelial cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2018. PMID:30061411.
Vermillion KL, Bacher R, Tannenbaum AP, Swanson S, Jiang P, Chu LF, Stewart R, Thomson JA, and Vereide DT. Novel Spatial Patterns of Gene Expression are Revealed in the Chick Primitive Streak by Ordering Single Cell Transcriptomes. Developmental Biology. 2018. PMID:29678445.
2017
Phillips MJ, Jiang P, Howden S, Barney P, Min J, York NW, Chu LF, Capowski EE, Cash A, Jain S, Barlow K, Tabassum T, Stewart R, Pattnaik BR, Thomson JA, Gamm DM. A novel approach to single cell RNA-seq analysis facilitates in silico gene reporting of human pluripotent stem cell-derived retinal cell types. Stem Cells. 2017, PMID:29230913.
Bacher R*, Chu LF*, Leng N, Gasch A, Newton M, Thomson JA, Stewart R, and Christina Kendziorski. SCnorm: A quantile-regression based approach for robust normalization of single-cell RNA-seq data. Nature Methods. 2017; PMID: 28418000. *Co-first author.
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Zhang J, Chu LF, Hou Z, Schwartz MP, Hacker T, Vickerman V, Swanson S, Leng N, Nguyen BK, Elwell A, Bolin J, Brown ME, Stewart R, Burlingham WJ, Murphy WL, Thomson JA. Functional characterization of human pluripotent stem cell-derived arterial endothelial cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2017; PMID:28696312.
In the News, Stem Cell Advance Brings Bioengineered Arteries Closer to Reality: Bioquicknews, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Wisconsin State Journal
2016
Chu LF†*, Leng N*, Zhang J, Hou Z, Mamott D, Vereide DT, Choi J, Kendzrioski C, Stewart RM, Thomson JA†. Single-cell RNA-seq reveals novel regulators of human embryonic stem cells differentiation to definitive endoderm. Genome Biology. 2016; PMID: 27534536. †Co-corresponding author, *Co-first author
Korthauer K, Chu LF, Newton MA, Li Y, Thomson JA, Stewart R and Kendziorski C. scDD: A statistical approach for identifying differential distributions in single-cell RNA-seq experiments. Genome Biology. 2016; PMID:27782827.
Lee WH, Higuchi H, Ikeda S, Macke E, Takimoto T, Pattnaik B, Liu C, Chu LF, Siepka SM, Krentz KJ, Rubinstein D, Kalejta RF, Thomson JA, Mullins R, Takahashi JS, Pinto L, Ikeda A. Mouse Tmem135 mutation reveals a mechanism involving mitochondrial dynamics that leads to age-dependent retinal pathologies. eLIFE. 2016; PMID:27863209.
Leng N, Choi J, Chu LF, Thomson JA, Kendziorski C, Stewart R. OEFinder: A user interface to identify and visualize ordering effects in single-cell RNA-seq data. Bioinformatics. 2016; PMID:26743507.
2015
Leng N*, Chu LF*, Barry C, Li Y, Choi J, Li X, Jiang P, Stewart RM, Thomson JA Kendzrioski C. Oscope identifies oscillatory genes in unsynchronized single cell RNA-seq experiments. Nature Methods. 2015; PMID: 26301841. *Co-first author
In the News, Algorithm helps identify elusive genes that express like clockwork: Morgridge Institute for Research, ScienceDaily
Vereide DT, Vickerman V, Swanson SA, Chu LF, McIntosh BE, Thomson JA. An expandable, inducible hemangioblast state regulated by fibroblast growth factor. Stem Cell Reports. 2014; PMID: 25458896.
2013
Hou Z, Zhang Y, Propson NE, Howden SE, Chu LF, Sontheimer EJ, Thomson JA. Efficient genome engineering in human pluripotent stem cells using Cas9 from Neisseria meningitidis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2013; PMID:23940360.
Stewart R, Rascón CA, Tian S, Nie J, Barry C, Chu LF, Ardalani H, Wagner RJ, Probasco MD, Bolin JM, Leng N, Sengupta S, Volkmer M, Habermann B, Tanaka EM, Thomson JA, Dewey CN. Comparative RNA-seq analysis in the unsequenced axolotl: the oncogene burst highlights early gene expression in the blastema. PLoS Computational Biology. 2013; PMID: 23505351.
Graduate Works
Chu LF, Surani MA, Jaenisch R, Zwaka TP. Blimp1 expression predicts embryonic stem cell development in vitro. Current Biology. 2011; PMID: 22000107.
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Chu LF and Zwaka TP. “Human Pluripotent Cells: The Biology of Pluripotency”. Human Stem Cell Technology and Biology: A Research Guide and Laboratory Manual (2011). Chapter 26. 313-325.
Dejosez M, Krumenacker JS, Zitur LJ, Passeri M, Chu LF, Songyang Z, Thomson JA, Zwaka TP. Ronin is essential for embryogenesis and the pluripotency of mouse embryonic stem cells. Cell. 2008; PMID:18585351.
Shah R, Medina-Martinez O, Chu LF, Samaco RC, Jamrich M. Expression of FoxP2 during zebrafish development and in the adult brain. International Journal of Developmental Biology. 2006; PMID: 16525940.