Publication

  • Yang J, Ryan DJ, Wang W… Lu L, Liu P. (2017). Establishment in Culture of Mouse Expanded Potential Stem Cells. Nature, 550 (7676): 393-397. http://dx.doi.org/0.1038/nature24052
  • Sugimura R, Jha DK, Han A… Doulatov S, Daley GQ. (2017) Haematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells. Nature 545 (7655): 432–438. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature22370
  • Veerapandian V, Ackermann JO, Srivastava Y… Yang X, Jauch R. (2018) Directed Evolution of Reprogramming Factors by Cell Selection and Sequencing. Stem Cell Reports 11: 593-606. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stemcr.2018.07.002
  • Ibarra-Soria X, Jawaid W, Pijuan-Sala B… Göttgens B*, Marioni JC*. (2018) Defining murine organogenesis at single-cell resolution reveals a role for the leukotriene pathway in regulating blood progenitor formation. Nat Cell Biol. 20(2): 127-134. (*Corresponding author) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41556-017-0013-z
  • Gao X, Nowak-Imialek M, Chen X… Niemann H, Liu P. (2019) Establishment of human and pig expanded potential stem cells uncovers conserved signaling requirements. Nature Cell Biology, 21(6): 687-699. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41556-019-0333-2
  • Pijuan-Sala B, Gtiffiths JA, Guibentif C… Marioni JC, Göttgens B. (2019) A single-cell molecular map of mouse gastrulation and early organogenesis. Nature 566(7745) 490-495. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-0933-9
  • Huang R, Huang Y, Guo Y… Lu M, Li T. (2019) Systematic characterization and prediction of post-translational modification cross-talk between proteins. Bioinformatics 35 (15): 2626-2633. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/bty1033
  • Chen ACH, Peng Q, Fong SW, Yeung WSB, Lee YL. (2020) Sirt1 is regulated by miR-135a and involved in DNA damage repair during mouse cellular reprogramming. Aging (Albany NY) 12(8): 7431-7447. https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.103090

Publication

  • Yu Y, Tsang JC, Wang C… Dougan G, Liu P. (2016) Single-cell RNA-seq identifies a PD-1hi ILC progenitor and defines its development pathway. Nature 29 (539): 102-106. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature20105
  • CY Tam, WMM Li, YP Gao… CS Lau and VSF Chan. (2017) Human CLEC16A regulates autophagy through modulating mTOR activity. Experimental Cell Research 352: 304-312.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yexcr.2017.02.017 
  • Lee JC, Biasci D, Roberts R… Mansfield  Parkes M and Smith KGC. (2017) Genome-wide association study identifies distinct genetic contributions to prognosis and susceptibility in Crohn's disease. Nat Genet 49(2), 262-268.  https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3755 
  • Yang W, Garrett L, Feng D… Yang Y, Gao B. (2017) Wnt-induced Vangl2 phosphorylation is dose-dependently required for planar cell polarity in mammalian development. Cell Res 27 (12): 1466-1484.  https://doi.org/10.1038/cr.2017.127 
  • IKY Lam, JX Chow, CS Lau, VSF Chan. (2018) MicroRNA-mediated immune regulation in rheumatic diseases. Cancer Lett 9 (431): 201-212.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.canlet.2018.05.044  
  • Forbester JL, Lees EA, Goulding D… Powrie F, Dougan G. (2018) Interleukin-22 promotes phagolysosomal fusion to induce protection against Salmonella enterica Typhimurium in human epithelial cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 115: 10118-10123. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1811866115
  • Gao B, Ajima R, Yang W… Yamaguchi TP, Yang Y. (2018) Coordinated directional outgrowth and pattern formation by integration of Wnt5a and Fgfsignaling in planar cell polarity. Development 145 (8). https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.163824
  • Li PH, Wong WWY, Leung ENY, Lau CS, Au E. (2020) Novel mutations identified in the first Chinese pedigree of complete C6 deficiency. Clin Transl Immunology 9(7): e1148. https://doi.org/10.1002/cti2.1148 
  • Stewart BJ, Ferdinand JR, Clatworthy MR. (2020) Using single-cell technologies to map the human immune system – implications for nephrology. Nat Rev Nephrol. 16(2): 112-128. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41581-019-0227-3
  • Duque-Correa MA, Maizels RM, Grencis RK, Berriman M. (2020) Organoids - New Models for Host-Helminth Interactions. Trends Parasitol 36(2): 170-181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2019.10.013

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Centre for Translational Stem Cell Biology  

幹細胞轉化研究中心

New Stem Cell Technology

CTSCB aims to develop new human cell lineage knowledge to optimize protocols for efficient generation of specific cell types from human Expanded Potential Stem Cells (EPSCs).

  • New technology relevant to stem cells with totipotency features
  • Molecular determinants in direct differentiation of expanded potential stem cells (EPSCs) to functional cells
  • Genome editing of EPSCs and new genome editing techniques and applications in ES cells
  • Protein engineering and direct molecular evolution
Project Team Members
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Professor Pengtao LIU

Managing Director & Programme Leader
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Professor Bertie Göttgens

Programme Co-Leader
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Professor William YEUNG

Principal Investigator
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Professor Yuanhua HUANG

Principal Investigator
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Dr. Ralf JAUCH

Principal Investigator
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Dr. Cherie LEE

Principal Investigator
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Dr. Stephanie MA

Principal Investigator
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Professor Rio SUGIMURA

Principal Investigator
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Professor Fang LIU

Senior Scientific Director
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Dr. Hui LIU

Head of Technology (Antibody)
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Dr. Dominik SPENSBERGER

Head of Technology (Genome Engineering)
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Dr. Dirk ZAHN

Head of Technology (Single-Domain Antibody)
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Dr. Degong RUAN

Junior Principal Investigator
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Dr. Guocheng LAN

Principal Researcher
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Dr. Chris Yuk Kam CHEUNG

Assistant Research Officer
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Dr. Melania BARILE

Post-Doctoral Fellow
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Dr. Feng ZHEN

Post-Doctoral Fellow
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Dr. Jilong GUO

Post-Doctoral Fellow
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Dr. Yingzhang HUANG

Post-Doctoral Fellow
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Dr. Nicole Tianqi LI

Post-Doctoral Fellow
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Dr. Qingqing LIU

Post-Doctoral Fellow
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Dr. April Thi Thuy NGUYEN

Post-Doctoral Fellow
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Dr. Hanzhang RUAN

Post-Doctoral Fellow
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Dr. Weiyu ZHANG

Post-Doctoral Fellow
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Kenso SO

Senior Technical Officer
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Dr. Guoliang WANG

Senior Technical Officer
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Dr. Yiyi XUAN

Post-Doctoral Fellow
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Yiming CHAO

PhD Student
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Chen CHENG

MPhil Student
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Ziwei HE

PhD Student
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Cindy HU

MPhil Student
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Wenxin JIANG

Research Assistant
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Angie Man Ping LEE

Research Assistant
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Lu LIU

Research Assistant
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Xianjie HUANG

PhD Student
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Danny LI

Research Assistant
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Daniel Ming Hon LU

Research Assistant
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Lihao SHAO

Research Assistant
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Wendy Cheuk Ying TIU

Research Associate
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Timothy WONG

Research Assistant
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Xiao WANG

MPhil Student
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Vivian Tsz Wan WONG

Research Assistant
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Shao XU

Research Assistant
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Claire Woojeong YANG

Research Assistant
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Yunzhi YANG

Research Assistant
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Sophronia YIP

Research Assistant
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Anna Xiaoyi ZHANG

Research Assistant
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Shihui ZHANG

PhD Student

Dr. Andy Chun Hang CHAN

Honorary Research Associate
Selected Publication
  1. Tan DS, Chen Y, Gao Y, Bednarz A, Wei Y, Malik V, Ho DH, Weng M, Ho SY, Srivastava Y, Velychko S, Yang X, Fan L, Kim J, Graumann J, Stormo GD, Braun T, Yan J, Scholer HR, Jauch R (2021) Directed Evolution of an Enhanced POU Reprogramming Factor for Cell Fate Engineering. Mol Biol Evol. 38: 2854-2868  https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msab075
  2. Chen ACH, Peng Q, Fong SW, Yeung WSB, Lee YL. (2020) Sirt1 is regulated by miR-135a and involved in DNA damage repair during mouse cellular reprogramming. Aging (Albany NY) 12(8): 7431-7447. https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.103090
  3. Malik V, Glaser LV, Zimmer D, Velychko S, Weng M, Holzner M, Arend M, Chen Y, Srivastava Y, Veerapandian V, Shah Z, Esteban MA, Wang H, Chen J, Scholer HR, Hutchins AP, Meijsing SH, Pott S, Jauch R (2019) Pluripotency reprogramming by competent and incompetent POU factors uncovers temporal dependency for Oct4 and Sox2. Nat Commun. 10: 3477. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11054-7
  4. Huang R, Huang Y, Guo Y… Lu M, Li T. (2019) Systematic characterization and prediction of post-translational modification cross-talk between proteins. Bioinformatics 35 (15): 2626-2633. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/bty1033
  5. Pijuan-Sala B, Gtiffiths JA, Guibentif C… Marioni JC, Göttgens B. (2019) A single-cell molecular map of mouse gastrulation and early organogenesis. Nature 566(7745) 490-495.  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-0933-9
  6. Gao X, Nowak-Imialek M, Chen X… Niemann H, Liu P. (2019) Establishment of human and pig expanded potential stem cells uncovers conserved signaling requirements. Nature Cell Biology, 21(6): 687-699. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41556-019-0333-2
  7. Veerapandian V, Ackermann JO, Srivastava Y, Malik V, Weng M, Yang X, Jauch R (2018) Directed Evolution of Reprogramming Factors by Cell Selection and Sequencing. Stem Cell Reports.  11: 593-606. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stemcr.2018.07.002
  8. Ibarra-Soria X, Jawaid W, Pijuan-Sala B… Göttgens B*, Marioni JC*. (2018) Defining murine organogenesis at single-cell resolution reveals a role for the leukotriene pathway in regulating blood progenitor formation. Nat Cell Biol. 20(2): 127-134. (*Corresponding author) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41556-017-0013-z
  9. Sugimura R, Jha DK, Han A… Doulatov S, Daley GQ. (2017) Haematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells. Nature 545 (7655): 432–438. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature22370
  10. Yang J, Ryan DJ, Wang W… Lu L, Liu P. (2017). Establishment in Culture of Mouse Expanded Potential Stem Cells. Nature, 550 (7676): 393-397. http://dx.doi.org/0.1038/nature24052
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