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Trevor Graham

@trevorgraham.bsky.social
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Director, Centre for Evolution and Cancer @cec-icr.bsky.social at @icr.ac.uk Genomics, epigenetics, evolution, mathematical modelling, data science, bowel cancer

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Becki Lee @beckilee.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Pleased to share results from the CAcTUS Phase II trial of ctDNA-guided therapy in BRAF-mutant advanced melanoma are now published! 🌵🧬 CAcTUS is the first melanoma trial to adapt treatment based on ctDNA testing. Read: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Use of circulating tumour DNA to prospectively guide a switch from targeted to immune therapy in BRAF mutant advanced melanoma: the randomised phase II CAcTUS trial - Nature Communications
Targeted therapy (with BRAK and MEK inhibitors) and immune checkpoint blockade have improved survival for patients with advanced BRAF-mutant cutaneous melanoma, however, the optimal scheduling for the...
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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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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
In colon, stem cells divide & so do the crypts they reside in: a multi-level evolutionary process. D Mallo, P Bousquets @heathergrant.bsky.social @calumgabbutt.bsky.social have made "PhyPhum" to lineage trace somatic evolution in human glandular tissues www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @icr.ac.uk
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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Cases of bowel cancer in young adults are increasing at an alarming rate: there are too many stories like Bradley's, a young man who died from bowel cancer in his early twenties. @icr.ac.uk are fundraising so we can lead more research to prevent and better treat bowel cancer at all ages.
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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
If you work on quantitative cancer genomics, please consider submitting an abstract for our next "Cancer Population Genetics Club" #CANPOP meeting hosted @icr.ac.uk on 15 June 2026. CANPOP is free to attend. Registration & abstract submission here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
New preprint: evolution of cross-resistance between two cancer drugs inferred from lineage barcoding data from single drug exposures. Removes need for complex combinatorial exposure experiments. Another tour de force from brilliant Freddie Whiting @icr.ac.uk www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
🔥🔥🔥💥💥💥🌶️🌶️🌶️ Hottest new lab in town, led by the exceptional @calumgabbutt.bsky.social, is recruiting it's first #PhD student. If you love #maths and somatic #evolution it could be your dream come true! 🌶️🌶️🌶️💥💥💥🔥🔥🔥
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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Is artificial general intelligence (AGI) already here? A thoughtful & compelling case: www.nature.com/articles/d41... "General intelligence can...emerge from simple learning rules applied at scale to patterns latent in human language: patterns [that] encode much of the structure of reality itself"
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Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear
The vision of human-level machine intelligence laid out by Alan Turing in the 1950s is now a reality. Eyes unclouded by dread or hype will help us to prepare for what comes next.
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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Open postdoc position in our lab @icr.ac.uk to develop a cfDNA test for #early detection of colorectal #cancer in inflammatory bowel disease #IBD: jobs.icr.ac.uk/vacancies/14... It's bench-to-bedside research, translating biology of pre-cancer evolution. Funded by @bowelcanceruk.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral Training Fellow - Genomics and Evolutionary Dynimcs in Sutton | The Institute of Cancer Research
View details and apply for this Postdoctoral Training Fellow - Genomics and Evolutionary Dynimcs vacancy in Sutton. Salary: Dependent on relevant Postdoctoral experience. Durati...
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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Are you fascinated by cancer biology and also ❤️ 💻 ? Feel like this ->😻<- at the thought of exploring oodles of cancer genomes, single cells and spatial multiomics data? Then our core Data Science Team at @icr.ac.uk might be the place for you. Vacancy here: jobs.icr.ac.uk/vacancies/14...
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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 - £53,500 (Salary appointment dependent on experience ) Reporting to: P...
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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
A big thank you to @bowelcanceruk.bsky.social and all their wonderful supporters for funding our research that aims to develop a blood test to predict bowel #cancer risk for people with inflammatory bowel disease #IBD. www.bowelcanceruk.org.uk/research/our... @icr.ac.uk
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A new test to predict which people with inflammatory bowel disease will get bowel cancer
Dr Baker and Professor Graham are developing a non-invasive way to predict bowel cancer risk in people who have inflammatory bowel disease.
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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
With the start of our new study trying to find causes of bowel cancer in young people hitting the headlines today: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I'm so glad to see bold efforts to raise awareness, like this giant 5x3m poster on the Croydon station platform I pass by on my to the lab each day
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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Cool new paper from @bloodgenes.bsky.social in @science.org. A common non-coding germline variant protects against clonal haem (CHIP) by modifying RNA regulatory networks. Wonder if CHIP protection is a tradeoff though - presumably some impact on immunity...? www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Inherited resilience to clonal hematopoiesis by modifying stem cell RNA regulation
Somatic mutations that increase the fitness of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) drive their expansion in clonal hematopoiesis (CH) and predispose individuals to blood cancers. Population variation in t...
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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
All I want for xmas is... combined cell segmentation and phenotyping with high accuracy from whole slide histology images with #Classpose (semantic segmentation). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... From the inimitable @sohmandal.bsky.social @icr.ac.uk
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Classpose: foundation model-driven whole slide image-scale cell phenotyping in H&amp;E
Cell segmentation and phenotyping in histopathology samples are essential techniques applied across diagnostic and research workflows. However, annotation by human experts requires significant time an...
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Nuria Lopez-Bigas @nlbigas.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Huge congratulations to Fran on being awarded the ERC Consolidator Grant! 🎉 Such a well-deserved recognition of an outstanding trajectory and a truly creative, exciting proposal on T-cell clonal hematopoiesis. Can’t wait to see the discoveries that come out of this project. So proud of you! 👏✨
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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
We held the first #CANPOP symposium today (cancer population genetics club) @icr.ac.uk. 6 excellent & didactic talks, all applying mathematical #popgen theory to dissect somatic evolutionary dynamics: spanning the full range of pre-cancer, metastasis through to 6000 year old transmissible cancer...
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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
First paper from the exceptional Marco Bezzi, group leader in our @cec-icr.bsky.social: a disease-matched syngeneic mouse modelling platform for prostate cancer evolution. Many results here, highlighted is MYC/MAPK driving castration resistance & remodelling tumour microenvrn Congrats! @icr.ac.uk
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ProMPt: A modular preclinical platform for functional modelling of prostate cancer heterogeneity and therapeutic vulnerabilities
Prostate cancer progression is driven by heterogenous genetic, phenotypic, and microenvironmental programs that remain challenging to model experimentally. Existing systems such as genetically enginee...
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Jon Lim, FRCP PhD @drjonlim.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Fantastic opportunity from @turajliclab.bsky.social! 🚀 The CanDy Lab is recruiting an Associate Scientist to drive cutting-edge cancer research across @cruk-mi.bsky.social and @crick.ac.uk. A rare chance to lead, grow, and shape high-impact science 👇 www.cruk.manchester.ac.uk/career/mi-25...
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MI/25/63 Associate Scientist | Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute
We are seeking a highly motivated and accomplished Associate Scientist to help lead and shape the programme. You will act as an operational deputy to Professor Samra Turajlic, helping to bridge activi...
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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
@kevinmonahan.bsky.social & I have an open clinical #PhD position between @stmarkshospital.bsky.social and @icr.ac.uk If you're interested in the biology of pre-cancer in the bowel & want to translate biology for cancer prevention this one could be for you... funded by the brilliant #40tude
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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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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
New @natgenet.nature.com paper from the brilliant @eszterlakatos.bsky.social presents evidence that chromatin alterations disrupt antigen presentation & neoantigens in colorectal cancer. Also that immune escape is part of the "Big Bang", at the outset of CRC growth. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Epigenetically driven and early immune evasion in colorectal cancer evolution - Nature Genetics
This study nominates immune escape as an early event in colorectal cancer and shows how this can be driven through both genetic and epigenetic changes.
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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Congratulations Alvaro! And your exciting papers are following...
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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Ouse Valley Viaduct, Sussex, UK
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Manuel Irimia @mirimiam.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
🚨🚨🚨 Two super well-funded PhD grants from our MSCA Doctoral Network @evomg-dn.bsky.social at our lab at @melisupf.bsky.social, @crg.eu and the @evomg-bcn.bsky.social Program. If you're excited about evolution, genomics and biomedical research, this is your DN! 😃 Further info: www.evomg-dn.eu and 👇
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EvoMG-DN is a European Doctoral Network funded by the Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), composed of 14 beneficiaries and associated partners from both academic and non-academic sectors.
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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
We have two fantastically well-funded #PhD studentships available through the @evomg-dn.bsky.social #EU doctoral network (led by brilliant @mirimiam.bsky.social, @crg.eu). These enable students to move to the UK and come and work with us @icr.ac.uk to exploit #cancer #evolution for patient benefit.
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Dan Landau @landau.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Big, beautiful trees!! SMART-PTA for whole-genome+transcriptome on thousand of single cells from the normal human esophagus 🤯 Massively scaling up the power of scWGS to build deep phylogenies and chart somatic evolution from birth throughout life. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Great flash talks from Anton Patrikeev (HPV evolution in head and neck cancer) and Florian Gabel (resistance evolution in prostate cancer) both from our @cec-icr.bsky.social @icr.ac.uk #CrickCancerConf
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Arnau Sebé-Pedrós @arnausebe.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Happy to share the Biodiversity Cell Atlas white paper, out today in @nature.com. We look at the possibilities, challenges, and potential impacts of molecularly mapping cells across the tree of life. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Here's @calumgabbutt.bsky.social's nice thread on our #EVOFLUx paper in @nature.com that uses fluctuating methylation to track cancer evolution
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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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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
This looks very cool... implementing mathematical models of cell and tissue biology from plain-text human readable statements. I want to have a play with it! Congratulations Paul @mathcancer.bsky.social and team
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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Congrats Kit! @yosoykit.bsky.social Extremely worthy recipient of the Leah Edelstein-Kehset prize #SMB2025: she is leading the way modelling disease progression to improve early detection and prevention of #cancer smb.org/SMB-Awards
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Society for Mathematical Biology - 2025 SMB Awards
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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Goldschmidt's hopeful monsters in cancer: single cell DNAseq shows whole genome doubling (WGD) is an ongoing and frequent mutational process in ovarian cancer. www.nature.com/articles/s41... beautiful work from @sohrabshah.bsky.social and team
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Ongoing genome doubling shapes evolvability and immunity in ovarian cancer - Nature
A single-cell sequencing study using more than 30,000 tumour genomes from human ovarian cancers shows that whole-genome doubling is an ongoing mutational process that drives tumour evolution and disru...
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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Schmidt Fellowships for #AI in #cancer research 2025 round is now open. These are pathway to independence fellowships between @icr.ac.uk & @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social that support fellows to be competitive for faculty jobs at the end of the 2 year funding. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
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Search jobs for external candidates | Jobs | Imperial College London
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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Schmidt Fellowships for #AI in #cancer research 2025 round is now open. These are pathway to independence fellowships between @icr.ac.uk & @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social that support fellows to be competitive for faculty jobs at the end of the 2 year funding. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
New review from @chloecolson.bsky.social on cancer evolution & plasticity from a mathematical modelling lens: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Chloe provides a framework to think about plasticity & evolution, & explains how maths models can reveal cell dynamics that we can't directly observe.
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Mathematical modelling of cancer cell evolution and plasticity
In this review, we argue that mathematical modelling is an essential tool for understanding cancer cell evolution and phenotypic plasticity. We show t…
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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Enjoyed this @natrevcancer.nature.com article on comparative oncology - how we can learn from other species 🐘🐋🦜🐍 about ways to prevent (& possibly treat) cancer. Both a review and a call to action for the research community. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @atjcagan.bsky.social @cmaley.bsky.social
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Advancing cancer research via comparative oncology - Nature Reviews Cancer
Comparative oncology combines evolutionary biology, ecology, veterinary medicine and clinical oncology to better understand cancer, for example, by identifying the molecular and cellular mechanisms un...
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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Congratulations @vinaya-gunasri.bsky.social. Fantastic achievement, look forward to seeing your lab grow.
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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Great press write up of @beckilee.bsky.social's DyNAMIC clinical trial, testing adaptive targeted therapy for melanoma with ctDNA guided decision making. The hope is that ctDNA guided treatment cessation and restart (potentially less drug, less often) will improve outcomes for patients.
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Pontus Skoglund @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Who were the ancient Egyptians? It is expressed in the extraordinary historical and archaeological record, but what about ancestry links to other ancient individuals? Today we report the successful sequencing of the whole genome of an individual who lived in Egypt about ~4700 years ago.
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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Our Evolutionary Biology and Ecology of Cancer Summer School #EBECancer2025 in full swing @eventswcs.bsky.social in sunny Hinxton, Cambridge. @florentmouliere.bsky.social giving a deep dive into tracking cancer evolution with cfDNA. @amyboddy.bsky.social @yosoykit.bsky.social @afrankell.bsky.social
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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Using barcodes 📊 to track cancer 💊 resistance evolution: is it clonal selection or plasticity? @fwhiting.bsky.social‬ knows! His new "Evolutionary Informed Resistance Assays" (EIRAs) framework infers resistance evolution dynamics from barcode diversity data. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @icr.ac.uk
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Quantitative measurement of phenotype dynamics during cancer drug resistance evolution using genetic barcoding - Nature Communications
Understanding the dynamics of how drug resistance originates in cancer remains crucial, but it is not possible to observe them directly. Here, the authors construct a mathematical framework to infer d...
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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Lovely new paper from @leedham-simon.bsky.social dissecting epithelium-microenvironment crosstalk through BMP & wnt signalling in the intestine. Inhibition of BMP antagonist GREM1 may forestall polyp formation in Hereditary Mixed Polyposis Syndrome (HMPS). www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Epithelial GREMLIN1 disrupts intestinal epithelial-mesenchymal crosstalk to induce a wnt-dependent ectopic stem cell niche through stromal remodelling - Nature Communications
The authors show that aberrant epithelial GREM1 expression remodels intestinal stroma to form ectopic stem cell niches in mice. Anti-GREM1 reversed these changes, highlighting a potential strategy for...
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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Single cell whizz with green fingers for molecular genomics? Want to develop and apply new technologies for profiling #cancer #evolution? Like single cell WGS + ATAC: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Perhaps our senior scientific officer role is for you? jobs.icr.ac.uk/vacancies/12... @icr.ac.uk
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Higher or Senior Scientific Officer in Sutton | The Institute of Cancer Research
View details and apply for this Higher or Senior Scientific Officer vacancy in Sutton. Salary : Salary from 39,805 to 49,023 Reporting to: Prof Trevor Graham Duration of ...
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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Calling data scientists: we have opening in our Data Science core @icr.ac.uk to lead work around cancer spatial biology and single cell analysis. These are staff scientist type positions, ideal for someone who wants to help drive computational research. Apply here: jobs.icr.ac.uk/vacancies/12...
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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 £49,023 (depending on the experience) Reporting to: Professor Trevor Graham ...
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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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Ben Lehner @benlehner.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
We quantify the aggregation of >100,000 random protein sequences to train CANYA, a convolution-attention hybrid neural network to predict aggregation from sequence. With @bennibolo.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Massive experimental quantification allows interpretable deep learning of protein aggregation
xAI trained on >100,000 random peptides predicts and elucidates primary sequence determinants of aggregation.
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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
With the brilliant @mlockley.bsky.social we've been exploring chemo resistance evolution in ovarian cancer. We find resistance has a fitness cost which means resistant cells are outcompeted by sensitive cells when treatment is stopped. aacrjournals.org/cancerres/ar... @icr.ac.uk @qmbci.bsky.social
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Adaptive Therapy Exploits Fitness Deficits in Chemotherapy-Resistant Ovarian Cancer to Achieve Long-Term Tumor Control
Abstract. Drug resistance results in poor outcomes for cancer patients. Adaptive therapy is a potential strategy to address drug resistance that exploits competitive interactions between sensitive and...
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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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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
🧬🔬🧫 We have an opening for a senior scientific officer to lead our single cell genomics #techdev and #cancer molecular profiling work @cec-icr.bsky.social Details and application here: jobs.icr.ac.uk/vacancies/12... Interested? Please do drop me a line to discuss. @icr.ac.uk
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Higher or Senior Scientific Officer in Sutton | The Institute of Cancer Research
View details and apply for this Higher or Senior Scientific Officer vacancy in Sutton. Salary : Salary from 39,805 to 49,023 Reporting to: Prof Trevor Graham Duration of ...
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