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Alicia L Bruzos, Dr @bruzos.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🎉My project #Bivalve2bivalve has been awarded a 2M € ERC Starting Grant! 🧬 Over 5 years, we’ll investigate at @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social from @maxplanck.de how host immunity, microbiome & environment determine whether transmissible cancers can survive and spread between cockles. 🌊

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Young Belgian Immunological Society @ybis.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

How does the immune system avoid overreacting? Regulatory T cells help maintain immune balance while preserving protection. For Day of Immunology, we’re spotlighting these remarkable cells in a new video. More details in the video description: lnkd.in/dv9B2qfH

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Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Fabulous #SciComm by our wonderful colleague @bruzos.bsky.social & her team at #ScienceisWonderful @ec.europa.eu 🦠 Check out their video – and see how they inspire kids and grown-ups alike, looking for cancers in marine mussels. @maxplanck.de @eusea.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NU8...

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Bruzos lab at Science is Wonderful! (March 2026)

YouTube video by Alicia L. Bruzos

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Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Celebrate #internationaldayofwomenandgirlsinscience🎉 This is to all the inspiring women driving knowledge & equality in science! Meet @bruzos.bsky.social, Laura & Nahja & learn about their journey & thoughts on #womeninscience @maxplanck.de #WomenInSTEM #MinervaFastTrack #MinervaFellows #MaxPlanck

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Alicia L Bruzos, Dr @bruzos.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Building this group has been a long-term dream, and I look forward to seeing it grow. Over the coming months, the page will expand to include sections for TEAM and PUBLICATIONS, once new members join and our first manuscripts with this affiliation are published. Stay tuned!

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Alicia L Bruzos, Dr @bruzos.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

🔗 Our research group webpage at the @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social is now online: www.mpi-bremen.de/en/Minerva-F... I am very pleased to share this milestone because it formalizes the recognition of our group within the @maxplanck.de and makes our research focus publicly visible.

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Minerva Fast Track Research Group for Marine Transmissible Cancers

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Miguel Ángel González Porras @mag-porras.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Don't miss this amazing opportunity!

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Alicia L Bruzos, Dr @bruzos.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Thank you @helloeacr.bsky.social for sharing these job offers to join the @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social! 🙌 We are seeking a #PostDoc & a #PhD student to investigate marine transmissible cancers. 🧬 ➡️ Postdoc: career.mpi-bremen.de/jobposting/a... 🎓 PhD position: career.mpi-bremen.de/jobposting/f...

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Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 @bruzos.bsky.social lab is seeking a highly motivated #PostDoc & a #PhD student to investigate the marine transmissible cancers. 🧬🌊 #sciencejobs #jobalert #researchjob #cancer #marinescience #symbiosis #bioinformatics #MaxPlanck

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Alicia L Bruzos, Dr @bruzos.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

🚨 We’re #hiring! 🚨 Want to work on marine transmissible cancers at @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social in Bremen? Join us! 📈 2-year bioinformatics Postdoc: career.mpi-bremen.de/jobposting/a... 🎓 3-year PhD student: career.mpi-bremen.de/jobposting/f... More info: albruzos.github.io/join-us/

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Join the Bruzos Lab to study marine contagious cancers. We welcome students, PhD fellows, and postdoctoral researchers — see open positions and opportunities to collaborate.

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Alicia L Bruzos, Dr @bruzos.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

🚀 Thrilled to start this new chapter at the @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social, where I will explore how cancer spreads in bivalves. 🧬 🌊 Honored to be a #MinervaFastTrack fellow and eager to lead a team. 🔬 Looking forward to learning, collaborating, and advancing what we know about cancer evolution.

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Alicia L Bruzos, Dr @bruzos.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Grateful to have attended #EACR2025 in Lisbon 🇵🇹 and to present my work at the Molecular Mechanisms of Metastasis symposium! Great science, old friends & new inspiring people 💡🧬💬 @helloeacr.bsky.social @aseica.bsky.social

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Petr Svoboda @svobodalab.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

BSKY is the channel of Woodstock.Bio2+Night Science! The meeting account: @woodstocknightsci.bsky.social The meeting hashtag: #TCTeAC Participants & friends of the meeting list: bsky.app/profile/svob... I checked all registered -> added to the list everyone I found - to be added/removed write me.

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Alicia L Bruzos, Dr @bruzos.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

And today at @empseb30.bsky.social we started with @biobiiana.bsky.social learning about parental care, canibalism and much more that happens in frogs 🐸 thanks for this engaging and interesting talk 👏

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Alicia L Bruzos, Dr @bruzos.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Inspiring and encouraging talk by @biobiiana.bsky.social at @empseb30.bsky.social with actions we can take to improve what we face! Thank you ☺️

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Achille Lenglin @achillelenglin.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Fascinating talk by @bruzos.bsky.social on cancer transmission in bivalves at @empseb30.bsky.social

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EMPSEB 31 @empseb.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Our todays keynote speaker was Alicia L. Bruzos. She gave an inspiring talk about contagious cancer in different bivalve species. 🐚This unique type of cancer represent an interesting oppurtunity to explore the nature and evolution of cancer. We would like to thank @bruzos.bsky.social for the talk!☺️

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EMPSEB 31 @empseb.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

At EMPSEB, you'll get to know the plenaries better than at other meetings – they'll be at all parts of the conference, including the talks, workshops and social events. We're thrilled that @bruzos.bsky.social, Filip Kolář, Eric Libby and @biobiiana.bsky.social will be joining us next year!

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Alicia L Bruzos, Dr @bruzos.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Wanna know more about me? Visit albruzos.github.io

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Alicia L Bruzos, Dr @bruzos.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Are you a PhD student? Working on evolution? #EMPSEB30 is accepting abstracts!! 🔗 sites.google.com/view/empseb3...

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Rob Noble @robjohnnoble.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

Big new comparative oncology paper! Zachary Compton and a large multi-institutional team analysed 16,049 necropsy records for 292 species spanning three clades of tetrapods to identify species with exceptionally high or low cancer prevalence. Free to read at doi.org/10.1158/2159...

Phylogenetic tree highlighting species with exceptionally low cancer risk.

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Michael Metzger @metzgerm.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

So excited to see bivalve transmissible cancer on the cover of our issue!

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Alicia L Bruzos, Dr @bruzos.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

Scrolling down looking for an interesting read? Do not hesitate to dive into the genomic secrets of cockle contagious cancers. 👉 cancercommunity.nature.com/posts/evolut... 💪 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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Michael Metzger @metzgerm.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

Trying out my first post in the new place (thanks @alisonfeder.bsky.social) to post our paper on the analysis of the genomic changes in the evolution of the bivalve transmissible neoplasia in soft-shell clams that came out last week! www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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Centuries of genome instability and evolution in soft-shell clam, Mya arenaria, bivalve transmissi...

Hart et al. study the transmissible marine leukemia of the soft-shell clam Mya arenaria and focus on a cancer lineage that is characterized by varied genomic instability as well as a mutational sign...

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Alicia L Bruzos, Dr @bruzos.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

Happy to start my adventure in @bsky.app by announcing November's Nature Cancer cover featuring our work and @metzgerm.bsky.social! www.nature.com/natcancer/vo...

Nature Cancer, volume 4, issue 11.
https://www.nature.com/natcancer/volumes/4/issues/11

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