Alexander Mildner

TL;DR: A fate-mapping study of the murine monocyte and macrophage compartment taking advantage of constitutive and conditional CX(3)CR1 promoter-driven Cre recombinase expression is reported, establishing that short-lived Ly6C(+) monocytes constitute obligatory steady-state precursors of blood-resident Ly 6C(-) cells and that the abundance of Ly6 C(+) blood monocytes dynamically controls the circulation lifespan of their progeny.

TL;DR: In this paper, a fate-mapping study of the macrophage compartment is presented, taking advantage of constitutive and conditional CX(3)CR1 promoter-driven Cre recombinase expression.

TL;DR: An automated massively parallel single-cell RNA sequencing approach for analyzing in vivo transcriptional states in thousands of single cells is introduced and provides the ability to perform a bottom-up characterization of in vivo cell-type landscapes independent of cell markers or prior knowledge.

TL;DR: Using a panel of bone marrow chimeric and adoptive transfer experiments, it is found that circulating Ly-6ChiCCR2+ monocytes were preferentially recruited to the lesioned brain and differentiated into microglia.

TL;DR: This work comprehensively map myeloid progenitor subpopulations by transcriptional sorting of single cells from the bone marrow, showing unexpected transcriptional priming toward seven differentiation fates but no progenitors with a mixed state.