Seeding hESCs to achieve optimal colony clonality
Human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) have promising clinical applications which often rely on clonally-homogeneous cell populations. To achieve this, cross-contamination and merger of colonies should be avoided. This motivates us to experimentally study and quantitatively model the growth of hESC colonies. The colony population is unexpectedly found to be multi-modal. We associate these sub-populations with different numbers of founding cells, and predict their occurrence by considering the role of cell-cell interactions and cell behaviour on randomly seeded cells. We develop a multi-population stochastic exponential model for the colony population which captures our experimental observations, and apply this to calculate the timescales for colony merges and over which colony size no longer predicts the number of founding cells. These results can be used to achieve the best outcome for homogeneous colony growth from different cell seeding densities.
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