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Konstantin Benno Bräutigam

@pathologop.bsky.social
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Research Fellow at @icr.ac.uk Board-certified histopathologist, MD BSc in Economics Science enthusiast and pathomechanist.

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Konstantin Benno Bräutigam @pathologop.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Clean histology, dirty genome?! Happy to share our recent preprint on prediction of advanced #neoplasia in ulcerative #colitis looking at resection margins in #dysplasia resections, led by a gastroenterologist-pathologist combo! www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Genomic alterations in histologically clear low grade dysplasia resection margins forecast advanced neoplasia in ulcerative colitis
Background Endoscopic resection is used for the management of dysplasia in ulcerative colitis (UC), but a subset of patients develop subsequent advanced neoplasia (AN), i.e., high-grade dysplasia and/...
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Konstantin Benno Bräutigam @pathologop.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Happy to share INCOMMON, a Bayesian framework that infers mutation copy number and multiplicity from nothing but the read counts a clinical panel already produces — recovering gene mutant dosage (GMD) at scale, with no matched normal and no raw data. Nature Genetics: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Gene mutant dosage is associated with prognosis and metastatic tropism in 60,000 clinical cancer samples - Nature Genetics
The authors present INCOMMON, an open-source Bayesian inference tool that determines the multiplicity and copy number of driver mutations from tumor sequencing datasets.
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Konstantin Benno Bräutigam @pathologop.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Transmissible cancer. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Brown bullhead catfish melanoma represents a novel transmissible cancer - Nature
Whole-genome sequencing analysis of tumour and matched non-tumour host tissues of the brown bullhead catfish reveals a type of naturally occurring transmissible cancer.
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Konstantin Benno Bräutigam @pathologop.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
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Importance of AI Education in Pathology
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Konstantin Benno Bräutigam @pathologop.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
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Universal transcriptomic hallmarks of mammalian ageing and mortality - Nature
Integration of gene expression data from multiple tissues across four mammalian species reveals conserved transcriptomic signatures of mammalian ageing and mortality and uncovers the modular...
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pbousquets.bsky.social @pbousquets.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
How do cells lining our epithelium evolve over a lifetime? 🧬 We built PHYFUM, a new Bayesian phylogenetic method to reconstruct the evolutionary history of normal tissue using Fluctuating Methylation. Here's what we found 👇 #CancerEvolution doi.org/10.64898/202...
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Konstantin Benno Bräutigam @pathologop.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Word. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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AI-induced never-skilling in medical education - Nature Medicine
Will medical trainees who rely on AI fail to develop foundational independent clinical reasoning? This Perspective outlines a precautionary framework to preserve foundational competence while supporti...
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Maria Alcolea @mariapalcolea.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
🚨 New paper from our lab just published in Nature🚨 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Discover how 🌱 tumour formation is shaped by tissue context from the very beginning. Cancer is not driven by genetics alone ✨Fantastic team led by Greta Skrupskelyte, Eduardo Rojo, @hariajith.bsky.social
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Konstantin Benno Bräutigam @pathologop.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Excited to share our (slightly opinionated 🤯) review piece on AI-led CRC reporting in "The Journal of Pathology" Thanks to @trevorgraham.bsky.social for supervision and inspiration! pathsocjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Calling cancer data scientists! 📊 💽 🧮 We have a number of open positions in our core facility @icr.ac.uk These are bioinformatician staff scientist like roles to work on exciting single cell, spatial & other genomics data from across our Institute. A PhD is required. jobs.icr.ac.uk/vacancies/13...
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Data Scientist in Sutton | The Institute of Cancer Research
View details and apply for this Data Scientist vacancy in Sutton. Salary : Salary range £39,805 to £53,500 (Dependent on experience ) Reporting to: Professor Trevor Gra...
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Konstantin Benno Bräutigam @pathologop.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Fantastatic paper from my host lab looking at the immune-genome intersection in the "big bang" of #CRC!
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Konstantin Benno Bräutigam @pathologop.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Interesting findings on circulating tumour cell peaks and vessel occlusion in "hot autopsies" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Macrovascular tumor infiltration and circulating tumor cell cluster dynamics in patients with cancer approaching the end of life - Nature Medicine
This prospective cohort study of patients with cancer incorporated antemortem follow-up visits and rapid autopsy analyses, and reports that spikes—rapidly increasing levels—of circulating tumor cell c...
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Konstantin Benno Bräutigam @pathologop.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Happy to co-chair the #Pathology Working Group of the European Society for Spatial Biology (ESSB) e.V. #ESSB with Francesca Maria Bosisio, MD, PhD and Christian Matek, MD! Please join the group and let us promote science together! Link to join: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Joshua Bull @joshuabull.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Great to see some exciting applications of #MuSpAn in action in @pathologop.bsky.social's talk at #ESSB2025 today! Come and say hi if you'd like to find out more about the software, or to have a chat about how MuSpAn might be able to help with your data analysis :) #EMBLSpatialBiology
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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
CAR T therapy has seen great effectiveness in liquid tumors, but little in solid tumors (e.g. ovarian cancer). Here we developed hyper-migratory CAR TV cells to infiltrate en masse ovarian tumors. (Left: control CAR T cells; right CAR TV cells). Read this here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Konstantin Benno Bräutigam @pathologop.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
The #spatial architecture of disease www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Spatial architecture of development and disease - Nature Reviews Genetics
Spatial omics has empowered the discovery of developmental and disease-associated molecular signatures, cell states and multicellular niches, as well as the evaluation of disease heterogeneity within and across organs. The authors review spatially resolved molecular changes across diseases and discuss the potential of spatial multi-omics for clinical applications, including the recent impact of artificial intelligence.
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Calum Gabbutt @calumgabbutt.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Cancer is an evolutionary disease, but does knowing a cancer’s evolutionary past help predict its future? Out today in @nature, we learnt the evolution of 2000 lymphoid cancers and found it was highly correlated with clinical outcomes! (1/7) rdcu.be/eFrrc
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Fluctuating DNA methylation tracks cancer evolution at clinical scale
Nature - Cancer evolutionary dynamics are quantitatively inferred using a method, EVOFLUx, applied to fluctuating DNA methylation.
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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Studying cancer evolution needs multi-region or single cell seq for phylogenetics, right? Amazingly (I think!) we found single-sample bulk methylation suffices, via analysis of "fluctuating methylation". In @nature.com today led by brilliant @calumgabbutt.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Fluctuating DNA methylation tracks cancer evolution at clinical scale - Nature
Cancer evolutionary dynamics are quantitatively inferred using a method, EVOFLUx, applied to fluctuating DNA methylation.
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Konstantin Benno Bräutigam @pathologop.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Communication in pathology, the power of word. Excellent keynote at #ecp2025 in #vienna!
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Dimitrios L. Wagner @dlwagner.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
So accurate, it hurts
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Konstantin Benno Bräutigam @pathologop.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
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Pathobiology — Can We Do Without It? | NEJM
With changes to preclinical curricula, some medical schools have eliminated certain freestanding subject-based courses, such as histology and pathobiology.
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Konstantin Benno Bräutigam @pathologop.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Deep-learning-based gene perturbation effect prediction does not yet outperform simple linear baselines - Nature Methods
The analysis presented in this Brief Communication shows that, despite their complexity, current deep learning models do not outperform linear baselines in predicting gene perturbation effects, thus e...
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Konstantin Benno Bräutigam @pathologop.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Happy to share our preprint on #pancreatic #cancer using a combined #digitalpathology #ish #ihc approach! www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...
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Spatially resolved analysis of TGF/BMP signalling in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma by digital pathology identifies patient subgroups with adverse outcome
Background Transforming Growth Factor (TGF) and Bone Morphogenetic Protein (BMP) signalling critically influence pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) progression, with TGF-B paradoxically exerting ...
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Konstantin Benno Bräutigam @pathologop.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Fantastic workshop on the ecology and #evolution of cancer #EBEC2025! So thrilled and proud to have been part of it! @sangerinstitute.bsky.social #cambridge
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Konstantin Benno Bräutigam @pathologop.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Looking forward to the "Evolutionary Biology and Ecology of Cancer" course in #Cambridge at the #wellcome genome campus! #genomics
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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Tour de force from @melissabarroux.bsky.social on evolutionary and microenvironmental dynamics of oesophageal adenocarcinoma through neoadjuvant therapy Published @natcancer.nature.com Melissa is an outstanding new clinician scientist.. one to watch. www.nature.com/articles/s43... @icr.ac.uk
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Evolutionary and immune microenvironment dynamics during neoadjuvant treatment of esophageal adenocarcinoma - Nature Cancer
Graham and colleagues analyzed locally advanced esophageal adenocarcinoma clinical trial patient samples and identified major changes in gene expression profiles and immune microenvironment compositio...
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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
dATAC: our new method for simultaneous very high quality whole genome sequencing and chromatin accessibility profiling of single cells. We used dATAC to trace epigenome clonal evolution in colon cancer. Devised by the extraordinarily talented @maxmossner.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Single cell multi-omic whole genome sequencing and chromatin accessibility profiling reveals genome-epigenome coevolution in colorectal cancer
Epigenetic alterations co-evolve with genetic mutations to drive carcinogenesis and treatment response. Resolving genome-epigenome coevolution requires accurate multi-omic single cell measurement. Her...
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Konstantin Benno Bräutigam @pathologop.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41... I enjoyed the read!
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Evolutionary paths towards metastasis - Nature Reviews Cancer
In this Perspective, Kamila Naxerova discusses how genetic analyses of primary tumours and matched metastases can distinguish between competing metastasis evolution models, arguing that further insigh...
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Konstantin Benno Bräutigam @pathologop.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Pancreatic cancer and its spatial TIME: Lots to learn and to do! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Tumor Immune Microenvironment in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma revisited - Exploring the “Space”
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) remains one of the most deadly malignancies with a highly immunosuppressive tumor immune microenvironment (TIM…
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Alexander Nader, Einschauer, Pathologist @alexnader.eurosky.social · 15/03/2025
#pathsky Excellent talk on pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms at the Spring Meeting of the Austrian Society for Pathology y Konstantin Bräutigam @pathologop.bsky.social #oegpath
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Konstantin Benno Bräutigam @pathologop.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Happy to be part of "Immunocto", a massive immune cell database in a H&E/IF approach! arxiv.org/abs/2406.02618
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Immunocto: a massive immune cell database auto-generated for histopathology
With the advent of novel cancer treatment options such as immunotherapy, studying the tumour immune micro-environment (TIME) is crucial to inform on prognosis and understand potential response to ther...
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Konstantin Benno Bräutigam @pathologop.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Neuroendocrine Tumors? No problem! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Neuroendokrine Neoplasien - Die Pathologie
Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) are a diverse group of neoplasms that originate from neuroendocrine cells throughout the body. Diagnosing NETs presents unique challenges due to their varied presentation,...
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Konstantin Benno Bräutigam @pathologop.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
⏰preprint alert⏰ I am very happy to share our recent preprint on targeting metabolism in Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors via lactate transporters MCT1/4! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Incredible amount of experimental work, many thanks to all contributors and especially to the seniors!
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Dual inhibition of lactate transporters MCT1 and MCT4 in pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors targets metabolic heterogeneity and functional redundancy
Our current understanding of the metabolic landscape of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PanNETs) is very limited. Such knowledge could lead the development of novel therapeutic strategies for subgro...
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The Institute of Cancer Research @icr.ac.uk · 28/01/2025
Are you using #AI to analyse #Histopathology images? A team of ICR researchers have created a glossary to help AI developers understand tumour histopathology. They hope that this will speed up the development of AI algorithms for cancer research ⤵️ doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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The tumour histopathology “glossary” for AI developers
The applications of artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning (DL) are leading to significant advances in cancer research, particularly in analysing histopathology images for prognostic and treat...
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Konstantin Benno Bräutigam @pathologop.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Meeting Darth Vader at the #festivalofgenomics! #genomics #excel #london
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Konstantin Benno Bräutigam @pathologop.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Thanks @trevorgraham.bsky.social ! We hope to fill this gap and to boost #cancer research! #ai #pathology
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Konstantin Benno Bräutigam @pathologop.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Our survey on routine #TIL reporting has finally been published open access in "Pathology-Research and Practice"! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Many thanks to the 77 participants from all over the world, we are grateful for your participation! #pathology #tme #oncology
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Tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) – Pathologia, quo vadis? – A global survey
Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) and the tumor microenvironment have become increasingly important in cancer research, and immunotherapy has achi…
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Konstantin Benno Bräutigam @pathologop.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
link.springer.com/article/10.1... The #pathologist role in trials.
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The role of the pathologist in the design and conducting of biomarker-driven clinical trials in cancer: position paper of the European Society of Pathology - Virchows Archiv
Clinical trials in oncology are important tools to identify and establish new effective drugs for cancer treatment. Since the development of the concept of precision oncology, a huge number of multi-c...
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Konstantin Benno Bräutigam @pathologop.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Traveling in time to my alma mater, Charité Berlin.
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Konstantin Benno Bräutigam @pathologop.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Inaugural Meeting of the European Society for #Spatial #Biology in Berlin! Lovely venue and excellent line-up! #essb
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Konstantin Benno Bräutigam @pathologop.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Beautiful commentary on the importance of cell function in a "genocentric" age. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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The cellular dogma
In this essay, I will put forth what I see as a major conceptual challenge for biology in the next decade, one that is inspired by Crick’s Central Dogma: understanding information flow in the cell in ...
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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
We have an open #PhD #studentship as part of our "Black Leaders in Cancer" programme at @crukconvergence.bsky.social & @icrlondon.bsky.social. About computational modelling of T-cell evolution in cancer. www.findaphd.com/phds/project... I'm looking forward to meeting prospective students #CRUKfunded
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