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Modern and Archaic Human Cell Biology (Gray Camp)

(Former group hosted by the Department of Evolutionary Genetics)

The group was a member of the Genetics Department from 2017-2019 and has moved to the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology in Basel, Switzerland.

More information on the group can be found here: 
https://www.graycamplab.org/

The group leader's new e-mail contact is: grayson.camp@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]iob.ch

Overview

My group works on methods to recapitulate human, chimpanzee and other great ape development in controlled cell culture environments using three-dimensional (3D) organoids and other stem cell-based systems. We integrate multiple methods including tissue engineering, gene editing, high-throughput confocal microscopy, single-cell genomics, and comparative genomics. We want to understand how human cells are unique from our closest living and extinct relatives, how they vary in human populations around the world, and how they fail in human disease. More detail describing on-going projects can be found below:

1. Great ape organoids

Complex, multi-lineage, 3D organ-like tissues (so called “organoids”) can be generated using pluripotent stem cells from human, chimpanzee and other great apes. We are using single-cell genomics on human, chimp, and other great ape organoids to uncover features that are unique to human developmental programs.

2. Neandertalized cells

We are working with other groups in the department to revert modern human DNA in human stem cells back to the ancestral state to create “Neandertalized” stem cell lines. We will use these cells to understand the physiological impact of genetic change on the modern human lineage.

3. High-throughput cellular phenotyping

We are developing high-throughput strategies to use CRISPR-Cas9 editing in combination with single-cell transcriptomics and confocal imaging to understand how genetic change affects neuron and hepatocyte cell biology.

4. Organ malformation

We are using 3D organoids to understand how rare human genetic diseases perturb gene networks controlling human development, with particular focus on the cortex and liver.

Former Group Staff

  • Jarrett Grayson (Gray) Camp
  • Fátima Sanchis Calleja
  • Leila Sidow
  • Umut Kilik
  • Qianhui Yu
  • Nikolas Kühn

Publications

2022

Gerber, T., Loureiro, C., Schramma, N., Chen, S., Jain, A., Weber, A., Weigert, A., Santel, M., Alim, K., Treutlein, B., & Camp, J. G. (2022). Spatial transcriptomic and single-nucleus analysis reveals heterogeneity in a gigantic single-celled syncytium. eLife, 11: e69745.
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He, Z., Maynard, A., Jain, A., Gerber, T., Petri, R., Lin, H.-C., Santel, M., Ly, K., Dupré, J.-S., Sidow, L., Sanchis Calleja, F., Jansen, S. M. J., Riesenberg, S., Camp, J. G., & Treutlein, B. (2022). Lineage recording in human cerebral organoids. Nature Methods, 19(1), 90-99.
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Oskolkov, N., Santel, M., Parikh, H. M., Ekström, O., Camp, J. G., Miyamoto-Mikami, E., Ström, K., Mir, B. A., Kryvokhyzha, D., Lehtovirta, M., Kobayashi, H., Kakigi, R., Naito, H., Eriksson, K.-F., Nystedt, B., Fuku, N., Treutlein, B., Pääbo, S., & Hansson, O. (2022). High-throughput muscle fiber typing from RNA sequencing data. Skeletal Muscle, 12: 16.
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2021

Lin, H.-C., He, Z., Ebert, S., Schörnig, M., Santel, M., Nikolova, M. T., Weigert, A., Hevers, W., Kasri, N. N., Taverna, E., Camp, J. G., & Treutlein, B. (2021). NGN2 induces diverse neuron types from human pluripotency. Stem Cell Reports, 16, 2118-2127.
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2020

Dannemann, M., He, Z., Heide, C., Vernot, B., Sidow, L., Kanton, S., Weigert, A., Treutlein, B., Pääbo, S., Kelso, J., & Camp, J. G. (2020). Human stem cell resources are an inroad to Neandertal DNA functions. Stem Cell Reports, 15, 214-225.
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He, Z., Gerber, T., Maynard, A., Jain, A., Petri, R., Santel, M., Ly, K., Sidow, L., Sanchís-Calleja, F., Riesenberg, S., Camp, J. G., & Treutlein, B. (2020). Lineage recording reveals dynamics of cerebral organoid regionalization. bioRxiv.
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Miller, A. J., Yu, Q., Czerwinski, M., Tsai, Y.-H., Conway, R. F., Wu, A., Holloway, E. M., Walker, T., Glass, I. A., Treutlein, B., Camp, J. G., & Spence, J. R. (2020). In vitro and in vivo development of the human airway at single-cell resolution. Developmental Cell, 53(1): e6, pp. 117-128.
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2019

Brazovskaja, A., Treutlein, B., & Camp, J. G. (2019). High-throughput single-cell transcriptomics on organoids. Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 55, 167-171.
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Kanton, S., Boyle, M. J., He, Z., Santel, M., Weigert, A., Sanchís-Calleja, F., Guijarro, P., Sidow, L., Fleck, J. S., Han, D., Qian, Z., Heide, M., Huttner, W. B., Khaitovich, P., Pääbo, S., Treutlein, B., & Camp, J. G. (2019). Organoid single-cell genomic atlas uncovers human-specific features of brain development. Nature, 574(7778), 418-422.
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Klaus, J., Kanton, S., Kyrousi, C., Ayo-Martin, A. C., Giaimo, R. D., Riesenberg, S., O’Neill, A. C., Camp, J. G., Tocco, C., Santel, M., Rusha, E., Drukker, M., Schroeder, M., Götz, M., Robertson, S. P., Treutlein, B., & Cappello, S. (2019). Altered neuronal migratory trajectories in human cerebral organoids derived from individuals with neuronal heterotopia. Nature Medicine, 25, 561-568.
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2018

Camp, J. G., Wollny, D., & Treutlein, B. (2018). Single-cell genomics to guide human stem cell and tissue engineering. Nature Methods, 15(9), 661-667.
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Gerber, T., Murawala, P., Knapp, D., Masselink, W., Schuez, M., Hermann, S., Gac-Santel, M., Nowoshilow, S., Kageyama, J., Khattak, S., Currie, J. D., Camp, J. G., Tanaka, E. M., & Treutlein, B. (2018). Single-cell analysis uncovers convergence of cell identities during axolotl limb regeneration. Science, 362(6413): eaaq0681.
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Kageyama, J., Wollny, D., Treutlein, B., & Camp, J. G. (2018). ShinyCortex: Exploring single-cell transcriptome data from the developing human cortex. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 12: 315.
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Karow, M., Camp, J. G., Falk, S., Gerber, T., Pataskar, A., Gac-Santel, M., Kageyama, J., Brazovskaja, A., Garding, A., Fan, W., Riedemann, T., Casamassa, A., Smiyakin, A., Schichor, C., Goetz, M., Tiwari, V. K., Treutlein, B., & Berninger, B. (2018). Direct pericyte-to-neuron reprogramming via unfolding of a neural stem cell-like program. Nature Reviews Neurology, 21, 932-940.
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Vaid, S., Camp, J. G., Hersemann, L., Oegema, C. E., Heninger, A.-K., Winkler, S., Brandl, H., Sarov, M., Treutlein, B., Huttner, W. B., & Namba, T. (2018). A novel population of Hopx-dependent basal radial glial cells in the developing mouse neocortex. Development, 145(20): dev169276.
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2017

Camp, J. G., & Treutlein, B. (2017). Advances in mini-brain technology. Nature, 545(7652), 39-40.
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Camp, J. G., & Treutlein, B. (2017). Human organomics: A fresh approach to understanding human development using single-cell transcriptomics. Development, 144(9), 1584-1587.
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Camp, J. G., Sekine, K., Gerber, T., Loeffler-Wirth, H., Binder, H., Gac, M., Kanton, S., Kageyama, J., Damm, G., Seehofer, D., Belicova, L., Bickle, M., Barsacchi, R., Okuda, R., Yoshizawa, E., Kimura, M., Ayabe, H., Taniguchi, H., Takebe, T., & Treutlein, B. (2017). Multilineage communication regulates human liver bud development from pluripotency. Nature, 546(7659), 533-538.
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Gerber, T., Willscher, E., Loeffler-Wirth, H., Hopp, L., Schadendorf, D., Schartl, M., Anderegg, U., Camp, G., Treutlein, B., Binder, H., & Kunz, M. (2017). Mapping heterogeneity in patient-derived melanoma cultures by single-cell RNA-seq. Oncotarget, 8(1), 846-862.
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2016

Gokce, O., Stanley, G. M., Treutlein, B., Neff, N. F., Camp, J. G., Malenka, R. C., Rothwell, P. E., Fuccillo, M. V., Südhof, T. C., & Quake, S. R. (2016). Cellular taxonomy of the mouse striatum as revealed by single-cell RNA-seq. Cell Reports, 16(4), 1126-1137.
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Karow, M., Camp, J. G., Pataskar, A., Schichor, C., Tiwari, V. K., Treutlein, B., & Berninger, B. (2016). Unravelling the molecular synergism of adult human brain pericyte reprogramming into induced GABAergic neurons by Sox2 and Ascl1. Human Gene Therapy, 27(11), A169.
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Mora-Bermúdez, F., Badsha, F., Kanton, S., Camp, J. G., Vernot, B., Köhler, K., Voigt, B., Okita, K., Maricic, T., He, Z., Lachmann, R., Pääbo, S., Treutlein, B., & Huttner, W. B. (2016). Differences and similarities between human and chimpanzee neural progenitors during cerebral cortex development. eLife, e18683.
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Treutlein, B., Lee, Q. Y., Camp, J. G., Mall, M., Koh, W., Shariati, S. A. M., Sim, S., Neff, N. F., Skotheim, J. M., Wernig, M., & Quake, S. R. (2016). Dissecting direct reprogramming from fibroblast to neuron using single-cell RNA-seq. Nature, 534(7607), 391-395.
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2015

Camp, J. G., Badsha, F., Florio, M., Kanton, S., Gerber, T., Wilsch-Bräuninger, M., Lewitus, E., Sykes, A., Hevers, W., Lancaster, M., Knoblich, J. A., Lachmann, R., Pääbo, S., Huttner, W. B., & Treutlein, B. (2015). Human cerebral organoids recapitulate gene expression programs of fetal neocortex development. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(51), 15672-15677.
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