EJ gave a wonderful presentation on our progress at the GDAN meeting in Houston, Texas.
On December 9th, Wagma earned her Doctorate Degree in Chemistry. The first Chemistry department student from our lab! She focused on investigating the functional role of ccRCC markers associated with cancer progression. Congrats Dr. Caravan!
Our first Biomedical Engineering student got his PhD on November 21st with his thesis focusing on Spatial insights in tumor biology. Huge congrats!
Read it here.
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.
Today’s issue of Nature journal features several papers our lab authored or contributed to as part of the HTAN consortium:
“Tumor evolution and microenvironment interactions in 2D and 3D space.” Nature
“Differential chromatin accessibility and transcriptional dynamics define breast cancer subtypes and their lineages.” Nature Cancer
“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 - 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 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 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.
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.