NCI commentary on our recent paper

Our Nature paper “Tumour evolution and microenvironment interactions in 2D and 3D space” published last week was featured in a Nature research briefing by W. Kimryn Rathmell, M.D., Ph.D., director of NIH’s National Cancer Institute (NCI), and Dinah Singer, Ph.D., NCI deputy director for scientific strategy and development. Enjoy it here.

Massive HTAN Nature paper bundle

Today’s issue of Nature journal features several papers our lab authored or contributed to as part of the HTAN consortium:

  1. “Tumor evolution and microenvironment interactions in 2D and 3D space.” Nature

  2. “Differential chromatin accessibility and transcriptional dynamics define breast cancer subtypes and their lineages.” Nature Cancer

  3. “Inferring allele-specific copy number aberrations and tumor phylogeography from spatially resolved transcriptomics.” Nature Methods

A huge shoutout to authors including but not limited to Simon, Clara, Michael, Reyka and Ben Raphael’s group.

Read about it at the Nature website, see all papers in this issue here, and read WashU News, EndPoints News, and GenomeWeb.

Alla defended on October 4th!

Alla - who is maintaining this page - graduated on October 4th 2024 and then had a relaxed vacation and only now remembered to post about this great news! I’ll stay around as a PostDoc!

Bobo visited us from Boston

Bobo came to St. Louis last week and visited our lab nearly 2 years after his graduation! It was nice to catch up with Bobo.

Fernanda and Reyka attended the AGBT Precision Health conference in Denver Colorado

Fernanda and Reyka attended the AGBT Precision Health conference in Denver Colorado to learn more about technologies, implementation, and major research breakthroughs. Reyka shared information about our ongoing efforts with PECGS and Fernanda talked about her exciting work exploring germline predisposition in multiple myeloma.

Li's installation celebration

Last week we all celebrated Li’s installation as the David English Smith professor of Medicine. It was such a special event, and Li told a great story of her success! We thank everyone for attending. And we wish Dr. Li Ding many prosperous years ahead.

Goodbye Siqi lunch

Siqi has been one of the most important wet lab scientist in our lab for four years! Now she is moving to New York to work at MSKCC and we wish her all the success in the world!

Graduation hooding ceremony 2024

Fernanda and Ruiyang have graduated this year and were finally hooded last Friday! Fantastic achievement! We are so proud.

Kyowon joined the lab

Kyowon has joined our lab and will begin his studies on April 10th!