Single Cell and Spatial Omics in Kidney Disease
Dr. Parker Wilson
Faculty member
Division of Diagnostic Innovation
Perelman School of Medicine
Date: Friday, September 15, 2023
Time: 1–2 p.m. EDT
Host: Dr. Darren Yuen
Location: In-person and virtual
In-person: Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute Auditorium
Refreshments will be served.
Lecture Takeaways
The main takeaways are as follows:
- Single-cell sequencing identifies injured cells in the kidney with a unique transcriptional and chromatin accessibility profile.
- Integration of GWAS with single-cell sequencing provides insight into the heritability of kidney traits.
- Spatial profiling localizes injured cells to pro-fibrotic microenvironments.
Biography
The Wilson laboratory is located in the Stellar-Chance Laboratories building on the University of Pennsylvania campus in University City, Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Wilson is a faculty member in the Division of Diagnostic Innovation, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine. The Wilson laboratory uses single-cell biology, spatial profiling, and computational biology as tools for investigating chronic kidney disease.
Dr. Wilson did his undergraduate training in Biomedical Engineering with a concentration in Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University. He joined the Medical Scientist Training Program at the Medical University of South Carolina, where he completed his M.D. and Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology and Pathobiology. He did his residency in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at Yale, followed by a fellowship in combined Renal and Genitourinary Pathology, also at Yale. Dr. Wilson did a second fellowship in Molecular Genetic Pathology at Washington University in St. Louis before joining the faculty in the Division of Anatomic and Molecular Pathology. His clinical expertise is in Renal and Molecular Pathology, where he provides histologic and genetic diagnoses for patients with kidney disease.
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