Category Archives: Research News

Gina Bouchard: “The colocatome as a spatial -omic reveals shared microenvironment features between tumour-stroma assembloids and lung cancer specimens” published in BioRxiv

Gina Bouchard: Computational frameworks to quantify and compare microenvironment spatial features of in vitro patient-derived models and clinical specimens are needed. Here, we acquired and analysed multiplexed immunofluorescence images of human lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) alongside tumour-stroma assembloids constructed with organoids and fibroblasts harvested from the leading edge (Tumour-Adjacent Fibroblasts, TAFs) or core (Tumour Core Fibroblasts, TCFs) of human LUAD.

Read more: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.11.557278v1

Gevaert team: Glioblastoma research study establishes a connection between spatial cellular architecture and clinical outcomes

Exciting work in glioblastoma research spearheaded by postdoc Yuan-Ning Zheng. The Gevaert team has developed a deep learning model to predict transcriptional subtypes of glioblastoma cells from spatial transcriptomics data and histology images. Moreover, this study establishes a connection between spatial cellular architecture and clinical outcomes.

Read more here:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39933-0

Watch video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JxOaLAUaaI

The team has also developed a website where pathologist can test the model:
https://gbm360.stanford.edu/