Collection-image

TOPICAL COLLECTIONS

Methods for Culturing Human Brain Organoids

Submit Abstract

Guest Editors

Wai Kit Chan

Wai Kit Chan

University of Edinburgh

Dr. Wai-Kit Chan graduated with First Class Honours for his BSc in Genetics and Molecular Biology in 2010 from University of Malaya, Malaysia. He then moved to Scotland to pursue his MSc by Research in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Edinburgh followed by his PhD under the guidance of Dr. Tom Pratt studying the effects of heparan sulfate proteoglycans in brain development. After completing his PhD in 2016, Dr. Chan is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Simons Initiative for Developing Brain at the University of Edinburgh. His research focusses on using human brain organoids to study the role of developmental genes in autism.

Shaohua Ma

Shaohua Ma

Tsinghua University, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School (SIGS)

Shaohua Ma is currently an associate professor at the Tsinghua University Shenzhen International Graduate School, working in the Institute of Biopharmaceutical and Health Engineering (iBHE). His current research fields and interests are organoid engineering, precision medicine-individualized treatment, brain organoids, and brain diseases.

Collection Overview

Human brain organoids are three-dimensional brain-like tissue cultured from human embryonic stem cells or human induced pluripotent stem cells in vitro. Recent studies have shown that organoids recapitulate the various cell types found in vivo and the cytoarchitecture of a developing brain. This positions human brain organoids to be a promising candidate to model human neurodevelopment and neurodevelopmental diseases including autism. Organoids are an in vitro system, making them amenable to experimentation and accessible. This is very valuable especially in early developmental time-points where human tissue are scarce and obtaining samples at this age might present ethical issues. However, there have been concerns over reproducibility of the cultures as each laboratory performing these cultures would adapt protocols to best suits the cell lines they are working with. This is an important issue to resolve as there is already inherent variability that is present in using different cell lines for culture which might confound interpretation of data. The objective of this collection is to share standardized protocols for human brain organoid culture and its characterization. This, in turn will promote broader access to existing protocols and pave the way for research collaborations. We hope that this will encourage more scientists to consider using organoids as a model system aiding our efforts to further our understanding of neurodevelopment and neurodevelopmental diseases.

Articles

Robust and Highly Reproducible Generation of Cortical Brain Organoids for Modelling Brain Neuronal Senescence <em>In Vitro</em>
5:40

Robust and Highly Reproducible Generation of Cortical Brain Organoids for Modelling Brain Neuronal Senescence In Vitro

0 Views

•

Cited by 9

•

2022

•

Abstracts

Using human induced pluripotent stem cells-derived brain organoids for environmental stress-related developmental disorders

Jia Luo1,

Sarah Logan2,

Xiaowen Bai*2,

Yasheng Yan2,

Thiago Arzua2,

Congshan Jiang2

1University of Iowa,

2Medical College of Wisconsin