New @natgenet.nature.com paper from the brilliant @eszterlakatos.bsky.social presents evidence that chromatin alterations disrupt antigen presentation & neoantigens in colorectal cancer. Also that immune escape is part of the "Big Bang", at the outset of CRC growth. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations Alvaro! And your exciting papers are following...

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🚨🚨🚨 Two super well-funded PhD grants from our MSCA Doctoral Network @evomg-dn.bsky.social at our lab at @melisupf.bsky.social, @crg.eu and the @evomg-bcn.bsky.social Program. If you're excited about evolution, genomics and biomedical research, this is your DN! 😃 Further info: www.evomg-dn.eu and 👇

We have two fantastically well-funded #PhD studentships available through the @evomg-dn.bsky.social #EU doctoral network (led by brilliant @mirimiam.bsky.social, @crg.eu). These enable students to move to the UK and come and work with us @icr.ac.uk to exploit #cancer #evolution for patient benefit.

Big, beautiful trees!! SMART-PTA for whole-genome+transcriptome on thousand of single cells from the normal human esophagus 🤯 Massively scaling up the power of scWGS to build deep phylogenies and chart somatic evolution from birth throughout life. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Great flash talks from Anton Patrikeev (HPV evolution in head and neck cancer) and Florian Gabel (resistance evolution in prostate cancer) both from our @cec-icr.bsky.social @icr.ac.uk #CrickCancerConf

Happy to share the Biodiversity Cell Atlas white paper, out today in @nature.com. We look at the possibilities, challenges, and potential impacts of molecularly mapping cells across the tree of life. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Here's @calumgabbutt.bsky.social's nice thread on our #EVOFLUx paper in @nature.com that uses fluctuating methylation to track cancer evolution

Studying cancer evolution needs multi-region or single cell seq for phylogenetics, right? Amazingly (I think!) we found single-sample bulk methylation suffices, via analysis of "fluctuating methylation". In @nature.com today led by brilliant @calumgabbutt.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This looks very cool... implementing mathematical models of cell and tissue biology from plain-text human readable statements. I want to have a play with it! Congratulations Paul @mathcancer.bsky.social and team

Congrats Kit! @yosoykit.bsky.social Extremely worthy recipient of the Leah Edelstein-Kehset prize #SMB2025: she is leading the way modelling disease progression to improve early detection and prevention of #cancer smb.org/SMB-Awards

Goldschmidt's hopeful monsters in cancer: single cell DNAseq shows whole genome doubling (WGD) is an ongoing and frequent mutational process in ovarian cancer. www.nature.com/articles/s41... beautiful work from @sohrabshah.bsky.social and team

Schmidt Fellowships for #AI in #cancer research 2025 round is now open. These are pathway to independence fellowships between @icr.ac.uk & @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social that support fellows to be competitive for faculty jobs at the end of the 2 year funding. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

Schmidt Fellowships for #AI in #cancer research 2025 round is now open. These are pathway to independence fellowships between @icr.ac.uk & @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social that support fellows to be competitive for faculty jobs at the end of the 2 year funding. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

New review from @chloecolson.bsky.social on cancer evolution & plasticity from a mathematical modelling lens: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Chloe provides a framework to think about plasticity & evolution, & explains how maths models can reveal cell dynamics that we can't directly observe.

Enjoyed this @natrevcancer.nature.com article on comparative oncology - how we can learn from other species 🐘🐋🦜🐍 about ways to prevent (& possibly treat) cancer. Both a review and a call to action for the research community. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @atjcagan.bsky.social @cmaley.bsky.social

Congratulations @vinaya-gunasri.bsky.social. Fantastic achievement, look forward to seeing your lab grow.

Great press write up of @beckilee.bsky.social's DyNAMIC clinical trial, testing adaptive targeted therapy for melanoma with ctDNA guided decision making. The hope is that ctDNA guided treatment cessation and restart (potentially less drug, less often) will improve outcomes for patients.

Who were the ancient Egyptians? It is expressed in the extraordinary historical and archaeological record, but what about ancestry links to other ancient individuals? Today we report the successful sequencing of the whole genome of an individual who lived in Egypt about ~4700 years ago.

Our Evolutionary Biology and Ecology of Cancer Summer School #EBECancer2025 in full swing @eventswcs.bsky.social in sunny Hinxton, Cambridge. @florentmouliere.bsky.social giving a deep dive into tracking cancer evolution with cfDNA. @amyboddy.bsky.social @yosoykit.bsky.social @afrankell.bsky.social

Using barcodes 📊 to track cancer 💊 resistance evolution: is it clonal selection or plasticity? @fwhiting.bsky.social‬ knows! His new "Evolutionary Informed Resistance Assays" (EIRAs) framework infers resistance evolution dynamics from barcode diversity data. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @icr.ac.uk

Lovely new paper from @leedham-simon.bsky.social dissecting epithelium-microenvironment crosstalk through BMP & wnt signalling in the intestine. Inhibition of BMP antagonist GREM1 may forestall polyp formation in Hereditary Mixed Polyposis Syndrome (HMPS). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Single cell whizz with green fingers for molecular genomics? Want to develop and apply new technologies for profiling #cancer #evolution? Like single cell WGS + ATAC: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Perhaps our senior scientific officer role is for you? jobs.icr.ac.uk/vacancies/12... @icr.ac.uk

Calling data scientists: we have opening in our Data Science core @icr.ac.uk to lead work around cancer spatial biology and single cell analysis. These are staff scientist type positions, ideal for someone who wants to help drive computational research. Apply here: jobs.icr.ac.uk/vacancies/12...

Tour de force from @melissabarroux.bsky.social on evolutionary and microenvironmental dynamics of oesophageal adenocarcinoma through neoadjuvant therapy Published @natcancer.nature.com Melissa is an outstanding new clinician scientist.. one to watch. www.nature.com/articles/s43... @icr.ac.uk

We quantify the aggregation of >100,000 random protein sequences to train CANYA, a convolution-attention hybrid neural network to predict aggregation from sequence. With @bennibolo.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

With the brilliant @mlockley.bsky.social we've been exploring chemo resistance evolution in ovarian cancer. We find resistance has a fitness cost which means resistant cells are outcompeted by sensitive cells when treatment is stopped. aacrjournals.org/cancerres/ar... @icr.ac.uk @qmbci.bsky.social

dATAC: our new method for simultaneous very high quality whole genome sequencing and chromatin accessibility profiling of single cells. We used dATAC to trace epigenome clonal evolution in colon cancer. Devised by the extraordinarily talented @maxmossner.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🧬🔬🧫 We have an opening for a senior scientific officer to lead our single cell genomics #techdev and #cancer molecular profiling work @cec-icr.bsky.social Details and application here: jobs.icr.ac.uk/vacancies/12... Interested? Please do drop me a line to discuss. @icr.ac.uk

Our latest paper, in which @brinda.eu (along with @zaminiqbal.bsky.social and others) introduces phylogenetic compression for storage and search of enormous microbial genome libraries, was published today in @naturemethods.bsky.social: rdcu.be/eg4OA 1/

🧬🔬🧫 We have an opening for a senior scientific officer to lead our single cell genomics #techdev and #cancer molecular profiling work @cec-icr.bsky.social Details and application here: jobs.icr.ac.uk/vacancies/12... Interested? Please do drop me a line to discuss. @icr.ac.uk

Application deadline for our @wellcometrust.bsky.social #CancerEvolution summer school is tomorrow, 1 April 2025. coursesandconferences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/event/evolut... Our brilliant faculty will cover evo&eco theory, math models, genomics, digital path, clinical trial design & more

Lemongrass, cut and bought from the supermarket will sprout if popped into some water... I never would have guessed

If you're a PhD student interested in using maths to understand cancer, this HCEMM summer school in Szeged, Hungary, is an excellent opportunity. Registration is free and local costs are covered, so apply before 15th April.

Ben O'Leary & I are looking for a #postdoc to join us in @cec-icr.bsky.social to work on collaborative @cancerresearchuk.org RadNet project about the interrelationship between genome & epigenome instability and radiotherapy response. Details & apply here: jobs.icr.ac.uk/vacancies/11... @icr.ac.uk

We have an opening in our #DataScience core @icr.ac.uk. The post will work on a breadth of topics across #cancer biology, but expertise in spatial data, single cell and data integration are priorities. Details here: jobs.icr.ac.uk/vacancies/11... @jobrxiv.bsky.social

Our #Cancer #Evolution summer school runs again 30 June-3 July at the beautiful Genome Campus in Hinxton, UK sponsored by @wellcometrust.bsky.social Ideal for starters in the field; this year's focus is on using genomic data for cancer evo research. Brilliant & inspiring faculty! bit.ly/40nLdDD

Our #Cancer #Evolution summer school runs again 30 June-3 July at the beautiful Genome Campus in Hinxton, UK sponsored by @wellcometrust.bsky.social Ideal for starters in the field; this year's focus is on using genomic data for cancer evo research. Brilliant & inspiring faculty! bit.ly/40nLdDD

Just announced! Seven new Cancer Grand Challenges – with awards of up to £20m – available for research teams around the world to tackle the biggest questions in cancer research. Read more: cruk.ink/4ha3LgZ 1/2

Thanks for coming to visit us @joshuabull.bsky.social and presenting your www.muspan.co.uk spatial analysis platform. Very impressive. Lots of interest here in using it to dig into cancer ecology and evolution.

Have you had a diagnosis of bowel cancer before age 50 years? We need to hear your views as we develop a comprehensive research programme in the UK, at a meeting in London on 1st April hosted by @bowelcanceruk.bsky.social and @BritSocGastro - please get in touch! #Never2Young #EOCRC

Congrats @vickysanzmoreno.bsky.social & @omaiques.bsky.social and team. I really like the use of digital pathology to quantify extracellular matrix structure. Also the (presumably epigenetic) memory of cancer cell state programmed by the ECM is a fascinating finding.

interesting work from @rakyanlab.bsky.social reporting that the genes encoding ribosomal RNA (rDNA) are very polymorphic between humans, in both copy number and sequence

Today is #WorldCancerDay. Behind every diagnosis is a person, family, and friends who feel the devastating effects of cancer. Our work has never been more vital. With pioneering cancer research and groundbreaking discoveries, we can continue bringing hope to future generations.

Delighted our work using aneuploidy as a biomarker of colorectal cancer risk in inflammatory bowel disease is out: gut.bmj.com/content/earl... The initial reaction from patients&families has been overwhelming Led by Ibrahim AlBakir @yosoykit.bsky.social @cancerresearchuk.org @icrlondon.bsky.social

www.icr.ac.uk/about-us/icr... Blog about projects @icrlondon.bsky.social in ovarian cancer. Its only the tip of the iceberg, there are many exciting projects too early to talk about! Blessed to be a small cog in the big wheel of progress in cancer research at my institution and beyond…

Are you an #AI #digitalpathology developer struggling to make sense of all the pathology lingo? Don't worry because @sohmandal.bsky.social & @pathologop.bsky.social are here to help with their "Histopathology glossary for AI devs" journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... published today - congrats both

Irene Aspalter @aspire2.bsky.social has been indulging in #SciArt. I love these clay models of cell-cell interactions. Makes me think about the mechanical complexity of a cell and how small receptors are compared to the size of a cell.

Applications for this "Black Leaders in Cancer" #PhD studentship with our lab @icrlondon.bsky.social close on Thursday... if you know of someone who might be interested please do pass the link on.