Exploring lymphocyte developmental origins

Using the single-cell adaptive immune receptor repertoire to explore lymphocyte developmental origins

Trainer: Chenqu Suo

This session was part of the 2024 edition of this course

Assessment of single-cell gene expression (single-cell RNA sequencing) and adaptive immune receptor (AIR) sequencing (scVDJ-seq) has been invaluable in studying lymphocyte biology. This presentation describes a novel strategy to use combined dataset and create a VDJ feature space that can be used for both differential V(D)J usage analysis and pseudotime trajectory inference. It also discusses a case study of using VDJ feature space to improve T cell development trajectories, generating predictions of factors regulating CD4/CD8 lineage commitment.

Learning outcomes

By the end of this session you will be able to:

  • Identify the data integration strategy adapted for studying lymphocyte developmental origins
  • Explore the application of Dandelion data analysis pipeline

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