The Jackson Laboratory Senescence Tissue Mapping Center (JAX-Sen TMC) - Biological Analysis Core

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Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT BIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS CORE The primary objective of the Biological Analysis Core (BAC) of the JAX-Sen mouse Tissue Mapping Center (TMC) is to provide high resolution state-of-the-art molecular, cellular, and tissue-level characterization of mouse tissues for the purpose of identifying robust biomarkers of senescence and, from this, build tissue- specific atlases at the cellular, microenvironment, and secretome levels. The BAC will generate high resolution, high content, high-throughput biomolecular data to generate comprehensive maps of cellular senescence in six primary mouse tissues, across two mouse model systems - a large cohort of Diversity Outbred (DO) mice representing genetic diversity and the required C57BL/6 strain. To achieve these goals, the BAC will 1) develop and apply a pipeline to generate unbiased, high-quality, high-resolution, and high-throughput datasets to discover biomarkers of senescence, 2) develop a high-throughput, high-content tissue phenotyping pipeline and apply this to a cohort of 400 DO mice, 3) generate high biomolecular content, multi-parameter spatial measurements on 2D serial sections to enable 3D tissue reconstruction, and 4) leverage p16/p21 reporter mouse lines to comprehensively profile senescent cells sorted from aged mice. Once complete, this project will have generated multi-scale, multi-dimensional maps of senescence cells within six mouse tissues from control and senolytics treated tissues, information that will be critical to optimize and guide future senolytic interventions in human trials.

Key facts

NIH application ID
10552967
Project number
1U54AG079753-01
Recipient
JACKSON LABORATORY
Principal Investigator
Paul Robson
Activity code
U54
Funding institute
NIH
Fiscal year
2022
Award amount
$828,695
Award type
1
Project period
2022-08-15 → 2026-07-31