Grant awarded from CZI!

In May 2020, the THGP was awarded a grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative as part of their new program to understand the role of inflammation in human disease using single-cell sequencing technology. Julien Ayroles, in collaboration with Micheal Mina (Harvard University) and Britt Adamson (Princeton University), will use these funds to ask how a Western diet and lifestyle contributes to the emerge of disease in the Turkana. The work will focus especially on the role of the immune system in linking Western lifestyles with compromised health, using cutting-edge methods to profile genome-wide gene expression levels at single-cell resolution. Check out the CZI website to learn more.

Julien collecting samples (cryopreserved peripheral blood mononuclear cells) that can be used for single-cell analysis.