Memorial Hospital Research Laboratories
The Ruslan Soldatov Lab
Research

The Soldatov Lab aims to characterize the mechanisms of cell fate decisions that coordinate tissue function and quantify how distortions of these mechanisms shape the course of cancer evolution. We are broadly interested in using a large-scale data science approach to study questions related to the organization of normal tissues and cancer, viewing it as a dynamic ecosystem of fundamental units — cells. We study the impact of stem cell heterogeneity on tissue function. In particular, we focus on the role of stem cell phenotypes, such as proliferative capacity or regenerative potential, in cancer initiation and evolution. We seek to characterize how regulatory circuits enable phenotypic plasticity to emerge, allowing cancers to evolve and evade treatments. Finally, we are interested in how the microenvironment and external insults, such as injury or pathogens, reshape cell fate decisions. To advance these questions, we develop computational methods to analyze cellular heterogeneity using high-throughput measurements at the level of individual cells. The lab leverages machine learning approaches, dynamic systems theory, and data science to gain insights into the evolution of tissue ecosystems in the context of basic and translational science.
Publications
Gao T, Soldatov R, Sarkar H, Kurkiewicz A, Biederstedt E, Loh PR, Kharchenko PV. Haplotype-aware analysis of somatic copy number variations from single-cell transcriptomes. Nat Biotechnol. 2022 Sep 26. doi: 10.1038/s41587-022-01468-y. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36163550
Petukhov V, Xu RJ, Soldatov RA, Cadinu P, Khodosevich K, Moffitt JR, Kharchenko PV. Cell segmentation in imaging-based spatial transcriptomics. Nat Biotechnol. 2022 Mar;40(3):345-354. doi: 10.1038/s41587-021-01044-w. Epub 2021 Oct 14. PMID: 34650268
Bergen V, Soldatov RA, Kharchenko PV, Theis FJ. RNA velocity-current challenges and future perspectives. Mol Syst Biol. 2021 Aug;17(8):e10282. doi: 10.15252/msb.202110282. PMCID: PMC8388041. PMID: 34435732
Seplyarskiy VB, Soldatov* RA, et al; NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Consortium; TOPMed Population Genetics Working Group, Gilissen C, Wong WSW, Kharchenko PV, Sunyaev S. Population sequencing data reveal a compendium of mutational processes in the human germ line. Science. 2021 Aug 27;373(6558):1030-1035. doi: 10.1126/science.aba7408. Epub 2021 Aug 12. PMCID: PMC9217108. PMID: 34385354
Krivanek J, Soldatov* RA, Kastriti ME, Chontorotzea T, Herdina AN, Petersen J, Szarowska B, Landova M, Matejova VK, Holla LI, Kuchler U, Zdrilic IV, Vijaykumar A, Balic A, Marangoni P, Klein OD, et al. Dental cell type atlas reveals stem and differentiated cell types in mouse and human teeth. Nat Commun. 2020 Sep 23;11(1):4816. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-18512-7. PMCID: PMC7511944. PMID: 32968047
People

Ruslan Soldatov, PhD
Assistant Attending
- Computational biologist Ruslan Soldatov develops computational methods to study cell fate decisions and somatic evolution in normal tissues and cancer.
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Postdoctoral Fellow in computational single-cell genomics
Successful candidates will drive key research questions that cross cut the themes of somatic evolution, regulation of cell fate decisions, and organization of the microenvironment. The projects will involve analysis of multi-omics, pooled perturbations and spatially-resolved datasets.
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