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Jamie Blundell

@jamie-blundell.bsky.social
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Evolution, cancer, immunology, math(s) Ursula Zoellner Professor of Cancer Research University of Cambridge blundelllab.com

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Jamie Blundell @jamie-blundell.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Delighted to share our latest on longitudinal methylation dynamics preceding cancer. Epigenetic signs of AML appear in blood DECADES before Dx. 👉 Early cancer detection 👉 Methylation drivers 👉 Epimutation rates 👉 CpG lineage tracing www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Dmitri Petrov @petrovadmitri.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Flybase lost all of the NIH support overnight - it is a disaster for the community. Please consider donating. I just did! www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
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Drosophila Genetic Database
The Drosophila Genetic Database, FlyBase, is on the brink of collapse due to the sudden termination of the FlyBase NIH grant, which includes salaries for 5 literature curators based at the University ...
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Charlie Pugh @cwjpugh.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
New preprint in collaboration with @paulinanunezv.bsky.social supervised by @jonnyfrazer.bsky.social and Mafalda Dias – we propose a simple approach to improving zero-shot variant effect prediction in pre-existing protein and genome language models: 🧶 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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From Likelihood to Fitness: Improving Variant Effect Prediction in Protein and Genome Language Models
Generative models trained on natural sequences are increasingly used to predict the effects of genetic variation, enabling progress in therapeutic design, disease risk prediction, and synthetic biolog...
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EvoMG Program @evomg-bcn.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
🚨With some delay, we're excited to announce that our proposal for a MSCA Doctoral Network on Evolutionary Medical Genomics (EvoMG-DN) got funded! 🎉 🧬 14 labs and 2 companies across 7 European countries will be coordinated by the EvoMG Joint Program at @crg.eu & @upf.edu. europa.eu/!NNq63m
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Mohamed A. El-Erian @elerianm.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I just wanted to let you know that, having been encouraged by many and received over four times the number of nominations required, I announced today that I am throwing my hat into the ring for the election of the next Chancellor of the University of Cambridge... 1 of 2
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Jamie Blundell @jamie-blundell.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Delighted to share a major update on our work investigating age-related deceleration in clonal haematopoiesis. Takehome: Widespread and substantial deceleration in fitness with age! Amazing effort by PhD student Hamish MacGregor 💪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Jamie Blundell @jamie-blundell.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
This is beautiful work — congrats to all the authors 👏
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Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre @crukcamcentre.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Join the Early Cancer Institute for talks from Professor Jamie Blundell and Dr Daniel Muñoz Espín, on their research into cancer evolution and aging! @cambridgefestival.bsky.social 📅 Tues 25 March ⏰ 6-8pm 📍 St John's College Old Divinity School, CB2 1TP Register ➡️ zurl.co/7NTWz
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Alejo Rodriguez-Fraticelli @alejofraticelli.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
🔥 New Fraticelli lab publication🔥 “Pre-existing stem cell heterogeneity dictates clonal responses to the acquisition of leukemia driver mutations” Now at Cell Stem Cell, with two new figures, in vivo, and sequential mutagenesis data. Performed with the support of Cris Cancer and @erc.europa.eu
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Aylwyn Scally @aylwyn-scally.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
We are excited to announce a new faculty position here in Cambridge, for researchers in computational and/or theoretical biology, based jointly in Genetics and Mathematics. Come and join us! Happy to answer questions about research, teaching and working here. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50414/
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Assistant/Associate Professor in Computational Biology - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Assistant/Associate Professor in Computational Biology in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge.
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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 21/02/2025
Legitmately thrilled to share our latest work, in which @fernpizza.bsky.social solved an experimental challenge in plasmid biology as old as the field: measuring how plasmids compete and evolve within individual cells!
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Ewan Birney @ewanbirney.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Want to work in one of the most dynamic places in mathematical biology - in one of the oldest universities in the world - great colleagues, great science.
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Jamie Blundell @jamie-blundell.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Delighted to share our latest work exploring levels of selection operating during pre-cancerous evolution usng single-cell DNA sequencing of HSCs led by the outstanding Gladys Poon www.cell.com/cell-genomic...
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Single-cell DNA sequencing reveals pervasive positive selection throughout preleukemic evolution
The representation of driver mutations in preleukemic HSCs provides a window into the somatic evolution that precedes AML. Here, Poon et al. isolate pHSCs from the bone marrow of 16 patients with AML ...
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Greifflab @victorgreiff.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Extremely pleased to share our new work in collaboration with the @bruskolab.bsky.social lab, where we leveraged one of the largest TCRbeta sequencing datasets to identify T1D-associated TCR-based signatures. Paper link and 🧵 are below. Incredible work led by @puneet021192.bsky.social.
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Leopold Parts @leopoldparts.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Does my mutation have the same impact as yours? Population genetics 🤠 🥸 🤓 🤡 meets single cell CRISPRi ⚡ ! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Led by Claudia Feng, Oliver Stegle, Britta Velten, @sangerinstitute.bsky.social .
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Simone Zaccaria @zaccasimo.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
🚨So proud to present the first study from our @ccg-ucl.bsky.social group together with @charlesswanton.bsky.social @NnennayaKanu and led by @ojlucas.bsky.social with key collaboration @sophie-ward.bsky.social and fundamental support @rijazaidi.bsky.social @abibunkum.bsky.social & others Out now👇 🧵👇
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Characterizing the evolutionary dynamics of cancer proliferation in single-cell clones with SPRINTER - Nature Genetics
Single-cell Proliferation Rate Inference in Non-homogeneous Tumors through Evolutionary Routes (SPRINTER) allows users to infer proliferation rates of individual clones within a tumor from single-cell...
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Jamie Blundell @jamie-blundell.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
V interesting idea 👇
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Paul Thomas @pgtimmune.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
We keep improving TIRTL-seq, see the updated preprint (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...)! New additions include: a manual 96-well protocol, code and raw data now available, and successful in vitro validation of EBV and SARS-CoV-2 TCRs.
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TIRTL-seq: Deep, quantitative, and affordable paired TCR repertoire sequencing
α/β T cells are key players in adaptive immunity. The specificity of T cells is determined by the sequences of the hypervariable T cell receptor (TCR) α and β chains. Although bulk TCR sequencing offe...
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Centre de Regulació Genòmica (CRG) @crg.eu · 23/11/2024
Big 🧬 news this week: we have launched the first Joint Program on Evolutionary Medical Genomics. Spearheaded by @mirimiam.bsky.social, Barcelona researchers will study and exploit the vast genomic diversity of life on Earth to enhance precision medicine. Full story in @elpais.com
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The dawn of a new medicine: Researchers use the theory of evolution to fight cancer
The world’s first joint research program in evolutionary medical genomics has been launched in Barcelona, under the direction of biologist Manuel Irimia
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Jamie Blundell @jamie-blundell.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Amazing work and a technology which opens up so many research directions. Congratulations @imartincorena.bsky.social and team!
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Sten Linnarsson @sten.linnarsson.org · 17/11/2024
Before I go to bed let me post an amazing paper by Filipe Pereira’s group (Ervin Ascic et al) for your enjoyment. I think this is a likely fundamental breakthrough in cancer immunotherapy: personalized, yet generic and probably pan-cancer. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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In vivo dendritic cell reprogramming for cancer immunotherapy
Immunotherapy can lead to long-term survival for some cancer patients, yet generalized success has been hampered by insufficient antigen presentation and exclusion of immunogenic cells from the tumor ...
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