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Chris Tape @christophertape.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Super interesting study showing that dietary fats and ceramides can drive a YAP-mediated revival stem cell fate in CRC www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Chris Tape @christophertape.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
PhD opportunity in our lab at @ucl.ac.uk! 🧬 How do colorectal tumours spatially adapt to treatment? Study cancer cell plasticity using organoids, single-cell, & spatial biology. 4 years | Jan 2027 (flexible) | Stipend + UK home fees ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Please share!
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Chris Tape @christophertape.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Why do COX-inhibitors like aspirin and celecoxib help prevent and treat colorectal cancer (CRC)? Our new preprint suggests part of the answer is that they work as ‘anti-plasticity’ drugs. (1/7) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Chris Tape @christophertape.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
We are recruiting! We are searching for an exceptional postdoctoral fellow to lead the single-cell phenoscaping efforts of the REWIRE-CAN Cancer Grand Challenge @cancergrand.bsky.social For more information and to apply please visit: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL News @uclnews.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Congratulations to Prof Bart Vanhaesebroeck, Prof @christophertape.bsky.social & Team REWIRE-CAN on securing $25m in @cancergrand.bsky.social funding to take on the challenge of rewiring cancer cells. #CancerGrandChallenges @uclmedsci.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2026/ma...
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UCL-led international research team wins $25m Cancer Grand Challenges funding
Team REWIRE-CAN, led by Professor Bart Vanhaesebroeck of the UCL Cancer Institute, will receive up to $25m over approximately five years to take on the rewiring cancer cells challenge.
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Chris Tape @christophertape.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
In early-2025 I was reeling from a ‘scored fundable’ grant application that was not funded. I really believed in this grant and knew the ideas were good but the review panel just weren’t into the project and there nothing more I could do. That’s science, but it hurts. (1/8)
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Chris Tape @christophertape.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Annual lab curry ‘n’ karting. Incredibly privileged to work alongside these wonderful people
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Chris Tape @christophertape.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
It's been a HUGE privilege to interview for @cancergrand.bsky.social with the incredible REWIRE-CAN team
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Krishnaswamylab.org @krishnaswamylab.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
(1/N) Thrilled to share that our paper HiPoNet (High dimensional Point cloud Network) to be presented at NeurIPS 2025! HiPoNet treats an entire high-dimensional point cloud as a datapoint! It captures multi-scale geometry and topology of the cloud perform classification and regression tasks.
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Chris Tape @christophertape.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Paul Nurse describing the main job of a PI (From ‘The Thinking Game’, 2024)
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Chris Tape @christophertape.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Important new paper from @batllelab.bsky.social showing how the KRAS-G12D inhibitor (RMC-9945) triggers rapid stem cell switching in CRC. This switch happens in just a few hours — similar to what we see with tumour cell responses to CAFs. aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscov...
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Chris Tape @christophertape.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Excited to share our new paper: ‘Phenoscaping Reveals Multimodal γδ T-cell Cytotoxicity as a Strategy to Overcome Cancer Cell–Mediated Immunomodulation’ led by Callum Nattress in collab. with Jonathan Fisher lab (1/13) aacrjournals.org/cancerres/ar...
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Chris Tape @christophertape.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Applications are now open for the @cruk-cityoflondon.bsky.social Black Leaders in Cancer PhD Programme. If you are interested in our project ‘Reprogramming Plasticity in Colorectal Cancer’ feel free to get in touch! www.colcc.ac.uk/2026-blic-ph...
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Chris Tape @christophertape.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Excited to be in Essen for @helloeacr.bsky.social Goodbye Flat Biology 🧫
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Chris Tape @christophertape.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
A warm welcome to the newest member of the team: Lab-bubu
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Chris Tape @christophertape.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
We are recruiting! Our lab is looking for a new mass cytometry technician to help study colorectal cancer organoid perturbation experiments at scale. Please feel free to contact me with any questions! Full job description and application details here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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James Reading @jamesreading.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
🚨 PhD Position available in our lab 🚨 exploring the power of blood immune multi-omics to detect lung cancer years prior to clinical diagnosis in a unique cohort of >10,000 CT screened individuals. ✅ Wet & dry lab ✅ September 2025 enrolment ✅ UK tuition fees only www.ucl.ac.uk/medical-scie...
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Pre-Cancer Immunology
The Pre-Cancer Immunology Lab (James Reading Lab) is mapping pre-invasive T cell dynamics during carcinogenesis to detect and intercept cancer development.
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Chris Tape @christophertape.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Incredibly impressed by the student/postdoc run @bacell3d.bsky.social conference. Great talks, a vibrant community, and so well organised 👏
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BaCell3D @bacell3d.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Very excited to have Prof. Chris Tape (University College London, UK) “Single-cell Phenoscaping of Tumour Microenvironment Organoids @christophertape.bsky.social What makes the phenotype of a cell?
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Chris Tape @christophertape.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Congrats to Rhianna O’Sullivan for winning a poster prize at the UCL Cancer Institute conference! 👏
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Chris Tape @christophertape.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Excited to be in Basel for BaCell3D @bacell3d.bsky.social
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UCL @ucl.ac.uk · 19/06/2025
🏆 UCL is ranked 9th globally in the 2026 QS World University Rankings for the third year in a row. This marks our 14th year in the global top 10, reflecting the strength of our academic and employer reputation. 🔗 Learn more: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ju... #QSWUR
Two students smiling outdoors in front of a university building with colorful banners. Text reads 9th in the world, QS World University Rankings 2026
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Chris Tape @christophertape.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Excited to visit @nkinl.bsky.social today!
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Francesco Iorio @francescoiorio.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
🧬 Excited to announce the 2nd Euro Cancer DepMap Symposium bringing together leading minds in functional genomics, cancer vulnerabilities, AI, CRISPR and anti-cancer target discovery.📍Join us in Milan for cutting-edge science, open discussion & collaboration. #EuroDepMap #CancerResearch #CRISPR
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2nd European Cancer Dependency Map Symposium - Human Technopole
The 2nd European Cancer Dependency Map Symposium is a scientific event open to the national and international scientific community working in computational genomics, pharmacogenomics, and therapeutic ...
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Chris Tape @christophertape.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
2 weeks left to apply for our new fully funded postdoc position studying plasticity regulators in metastatic CRC!
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eriksahailab.bsky.social @eriksahailab.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Happy to share details of this meeting and the exciting line-up of speakers. Hope to see you there. Please re-post www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/5th...
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Chris Tape @christophertape.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
We are recruiting! We're searching for a postdoctoral research fellow to study patient-specific regulators of plasticity in primary and metastatic CRC. Please reach out if you have any questions! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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Chris Tape @christophertape.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Excited to arrive in Whistler for the @keystonesymposia.bsky.social on Organoids and Single Cells 🇨🇦 🐻
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Henry Scowcroft @oh-henry.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
"We’re going to find a way to kill these cells,” says @christophertape.bsky.social “We won’t stop until we do.” Loved working on this piece with Chris & his team - and with Sharon, who donated her bowel tumour to Chris's @cancerresearchuk.org -funded lab. news.cancerresearchuk.org/2025/05/09/s...
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The mysterious stem cells that could hold the key to beating bowel cancer - Cancer Research UK - Cancer News
Using organoids, researchers have found that 'revival' stem cells could hold the key to why people's cancers respond differently to treatment
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Chris Tape @christophertape.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Thanks to @cancerresearchuk.org for featuring our work on stem cell plasticity in CRC: news.cancerresearchuk.org/2025/05/09/s...
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The mysterious stem cells that could hold the key to beating bowel cancer - Cancer Research UK - Cancer News
Using organoids, researchers have found that 'revival' stem cells could hold the key to why people's cancers respond differently to treatment
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Chris Tape @christophertape.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Congrats to Corinne Molyneux for winning a poster prize at the UCL Cancer Domain Symposium! 👏
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Chris Tape @christophertape.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
If you’re interested in GI organoids please join us for the first LION meeting at The Crick 09/06! 🦁
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Cancer Research UK City of London Centre @cruk-cityoflondon.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Inspiring plenary talk from Prof Mariam Jamal-Hanjani #AACR25 speaking about former City of London Centre trainee Dr Sonya Hessey work and long term collaborations! 🤩🤩 #CRUKfunded
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Chris Tape @christophertape.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Upgrade to our single-cell organoid dissociation factory 💥
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Cancer Research UK City of London Centre @cruk-cityoflondon.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
🎉Exciting news - @cancerresearchuk.org and partners have launched a £5.5m fund to research personalised treatments for bowel cancer. We're proud that our faculty member @christophertape.bsky.social and our Organoids facility are part of the international research team. bit.ly/3E3092H
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£5.5m research funding to transform bowel cancer care - Cancer Research UK - Cancer News
The CRC-STARS team will learn more about how bowel cancer behaves so that it can potentially be treated in a more personalised way
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Cancer Research UK @cancerresearchuk.org · 01/04/2025
April is #BowelCancerAwarenessMonth – here are the most common symptoms of bowel cancer 👇 It's important to know what's normal for your body. Talk to your GP if you notice anything unusual for you, or any changes that don’t go away. Share this to help us raise awareness 🔁
Infographic containing possibly symptoms of bowel cancer. These are, but aren't limited to, blood in your poo or bleeding from your bottom, changes in your bowel habits, unexpected weight loss, a pain or lump in your tummy, or feeling more tired or breathless than usual.
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Chris Tape @christophertape.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
We are recruiting for a new Research Technician to join the @cruk-cityoflondon.bsky.social Organoid Platform! Full details at: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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Fabian Fröhlich @frohlichlab.com · 12/03/2025
🧪 Pipettes in a neat row. 🧫 Cells responding to a carefully measured symphony of perturbations. 🦾 Liquid handlers whirring softly. 📋 Protocols, pristine. We are seeking a detail-oriented protagonist to bring order to the world of intracellular signalling. crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...
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Senior Laboratory Research Scientist
Salary for this Role: From £39,950 per annum with benefits, subject to skills and experience Job Title: Senior Laboratory Research Scientist Reports to: Fabian Frohlich Closing Date: 13/Apr/2025 23.59...
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Aurélie Dobric @aureliedobric.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Excited to share today, a whole new chapter in my scientific journey. TAPELab( @christophertape.bsky.social) latest review on ‘High-dimensional signalling analysis of organoids’ is now online. Full review available here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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High-dimensional signalling analysis of organoids
Cellular phenotypes are regulated by dynamic signalling processes that involve proteins, post-translational modifications, epigenetic events, and tran…
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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I see my job as making sure everyone in the team can go forward - some of it is long-term planning (building roads) but a lot of it is admin work (road maintenance) and short-term problem solving (highway patrol intervention). It's all necessary
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Chris Tape @christophertape.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
If teams forming around the 'Rewiring Cancer Cells' or 'TME Dynamics' Grand Challenges would like to include our high-throughput organoid co-culture signalling technologies please get in touch!
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Chris Tape @christophertape.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I think the CRC field ‘may’ have too many gene signatures
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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
"Genes are... the easy part" @philipcball.bsky.social argues biologists need to embrace complexity from the start, rather than beginning with oversimplified "one gene, one trait" models +1 www.cell.com/cell-systems...
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Should biology put complexity first?
The dictum “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler” poses a problem for biology. How simply can it be told without doing damage to its complex nature? The answer might be foun...
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Chris Tape @christophertape.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Nice paper from @sleemmz.bsky.social et al underscoring the importance of stem cell transdetermination in CRC. RXR, YAP, and AP1 signalling collectively control access to revival stem cells and inhibition of these nodes limits plasticity to improve chemosensitivity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Oncofetal reprogramming drives phenotypic plasticity in WNT-dependent colorectal cancer - Nature Genetics
Oncofetal (OnF) reprogramming, driven by YAP and AP-1, induces phenotypic plasticity and therapy resistance in WNT-dependent colorectal cancer (CRC). Targeting the OnF state in combination with chemot...
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Adrian Liston @labliston.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Academics get so jaded about institutions, when they reach a #leadership position many feel #researchculture is unactionable. Me and @deefitzgerald.bsky.social wrote a guide in @immunolcellbiol.bsky.social on leadership nurturing a positive culture 1/13 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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<em>Immunology & Cell Biology</em> | ASI Journal | Wiley Online Library
Positive research cultures provide the environment for scientists to explore ideas, grow as individuals, develop team science and create a positive impact on those around them. Here we focus on key a...
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Adrian Liston @labliston.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Our paper on nurturing a #PositiveResearchCulture within your #research #team published by @wellcometrust.bsky.social gives useful tips for your lab. As well as making you a good team leader, nurturing culture pays off in building your science: 1/11 wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-3...
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Chris Tape @christophertape.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Some fantastic lab automation tips here 👇
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Krishnaswamylab.org @krishnaswamylab.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
(1/n) Excited to share our work on gene signal pattern analysis (GSPA)---our new method for analyzing gene expression over cellular manifolds! www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Mapping the gene space at single-cell resolution with gene signal pattern analysis - Nature Computational Science
This work presents a graph signal processing method, gene signal pattern analysis, to embed gene signals from single-cell sequencing data. In diverse experimental set-ups and case studies, GSPA establ...
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Ralitsa Madsen @ralitsamadsen.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Wow, what a fantastic Christmas present to get - the main output of my @wellcometrust.bsky.social Henry Wellcome Fellowship is now out @molsystbiol.bsky.social and should be of interest to anybody who loves (PI3K) signalling and quantitative biology! www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
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Oncogenic PIK3CA corrupts growth factor signaling specificity | Molecular Systems Biology
imageimageA single-cell signaling framework is developed for quantitative measurements of information flow within the phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) pathway, enabling high-resolution studies of grow...
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UCL News @uclnews.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
A new CAR-T cell therapy has delivered promising results in treating patients with an aggressive blood cancer, in findings from a clinical trial led by Prof Martin Pule and Dr Claire Roddie from UCL Cancer Institute and @uclh.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/no...
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New CAR-T cell therapy gives hope for patients with aggressive blood cancer
A new chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR-T) therapy has delivered promising results in treating patients with an aggressive blood cancer, in results from a clinical trial led by researchers at UCL ...
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