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Wei-Ting Lu

@weitinglu.bsky.social
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Tea addict and scientist, in that order. Incoming Group Leader, Dept of Oncology, University of Oxford. All views my own.

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Jamal-Hanjani Lab @jamal-hanjani-lab.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Excited to share our ‘Evolutionary characterization of lung cancer metastasis’ in #TRACERx & #PEACE, published today in @nature.com in collaboration with @charlesswanton.bsky.social @nickymcgranahan.bsky.social @zaccasimo.bsky.social at @ucl.ac.uk & @crick.ac.uk. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Evolutionary characterization of lung cancer metastasis - Nature
DNA-sequencing data from primary tumours and paired metastases from participants in the TRACERx lung study and PEACE autopsy programme are used to analyse the metastatic diversity of advanced non-smal...
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Papers submitted on Tuesdays are more likely to be accepted by Nature whereas Wednesdays seem the most likely day to submit and secure acceptance to PLOS ONE. For Cell, Mondays and Tuesdays seem the best submission days in case of accepted papers. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Tony Cesare @thecesarelab.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
New @natcomms.nature.com paper today from Tracy Bryan's lab @cmri.bsky.social: "Nuclear actin and DNA replication stress regulate telomere maintenance by telomerase". Happy our lab could play a small part. Congrats Tracy, Ash Harman, Noa Lamm and the whole team. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Nuclear actin and DNA replication stress regulate telomere maintenance by telomerase - Nature Communications
Telomerase recruitment to telomeres is a tightly regulated process which is stimulated by replication stress. Here, the authors identify that nuclear filamentous actin is important for interaction bet...
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Oxford Cancer @oxfordcancer.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Oxford Professor Sarah Blagden, @oncology.ox.ac.uk appears in the first episode of Cancer Detectives: Finding the Cures on @Channel4 tonight! 📺 Watch at 9pm, Thurs 20 Nov, or stream on Channel 4. Brought to you by @CR_UK. #CancerDetectives #CancerPrevention www.channel4.com/programmes/c...
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Cancer Detectives: Finding the Cures
Three trailblazing scientists take on cancer, changing peoples’ lives, right now
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Wei-Ting Lu @weitinglu.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
We are hiring a postdoc at Oxford! Are you: 🔥 Passionate about genomic and chromosomal instability? ❓Curious about the relationship between whole genome doubling, cancer evolution and drug resistance? 🩺Want to have close collaboration with clinical facing groups? Apply at: shorturl.at/0fPmD
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JStark lab @jstarklab.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41... saw @lablegube.bsky.social present this last week. Provides important clarity on RNA at chromosomal DSBs. Including rigorously debunking the nascent synthesis idea.
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Transcriptional repression facilitates RNA:DNA hybrid accumulation at DNA double-strand breaks - Nature Cell Biology
Saur, Lesage et al. report that RNA:DNA hybrids arise at double-strand breaks in transcribed genes, independently of de novo recruitment of RNA polymerase II/III, as a result of DSB-induced transcriptional repression.
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Adam Phillippy @aphillippy.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
🚂 The T2T train keeps rolling: "The formation and propagation of human Robertsonian chromosomes" with Gerton and Garrison labs is out! What's a Robertsonian chromosome? Let Jen tell you herself in this great video, or read our paper: [1/3] 📺 youtu.be/JmlY5omxQVc 📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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How Stowers Scientists Found the DNA Site Where Robertsonian Chromosomes Fuse
YouTube video by Stowers Institute for Medical Research
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Nature Genetics @natgenet.nature.com · 15/09/2025
📢OUT @natgenet.nature.com 📰DNA methylation cooperates with genomic alterations during non-small cell lung cancer evolution. By Francisco Gimeno-Valiente, Nnennaya Kanu and colleagues. ⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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DNA methylation cooperates with genomic alterations during non-small cell lung cancer evolution - Nature Genetics
Integrated multi-omic analyses using samples from the TRACERx study highlight cross-talk between DNA hypermethylation and genomic lesions in non-small cell lung cancer.
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Nature Cell Biology @natcellbio.nature.com · 22/08/2025
💫NEW: @brianstrahl.bsky.social & co report a non-catalytic function of the methyltransferase SETD2 in regulating nuclear morphology and genome integrity. 👉https://rdcu.be/eBW3D bit.ly/3Vff6DO
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A SETD2–CDK1–lamin axis maintains nuclear morphology and genome stability - Nature Cell Biology
Khan et al. report a non-catalytic function of the methyltransferase SETD2 in regulating nuclear morphology and genome integrity. The SETD2 amino terminus functions as a scaffold helping CDK1 associat...
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Eileen Parkes @eileenparkes.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Using snRNA-sequencing (Izar lab @columbiauniversity.bsky.social) with matched multiplex immunophenotypic profiling (@jleslie1.bsky.social) we found tumor cell-intrinsic innate immune activation and intratumoral myeloid infiltration as phenotypic consequences of ongoing micronucleation in EAC. 7/11
Image shows cell types which correlate with increasing chromosomal instability (myeloid populations dominate) and representative images of inflamed, CINhigh tumor and a CINlow tumor
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Cancer Research UK @cancerresearchuk.org · 27/04/2025
Wei-ting Lu presents data from the TRACERx lung cancer study on FAT1 alterations and chromosomal instability. #AACR2025 | @weitinglu.bsky.social | @crick.ac.uk
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Esashi Lab @esashilab.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
We are delighted to share our latest work, characterising the role of BRCA2 and its binding partner PALB2 at centromeres, just out in the latest issue of Cell Reports. ⬇️ www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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The homologous recombination factors BRCA2 and PALB2 interplay with mismatch repair pathways to maintain centromere stability and cell viability
Graham et al. demonstrate that BRCA2 and PALB2 protect centromere integrity in non-cancerous cells through distinct mechanisms, partly counteracting the mismatch repair factor MLH1. In cancer cells, B...
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Wei-Ting Lu @weitinglu.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
We’re thrilled to see our research has been highlighted as the cover of NCB this month 🎉 🎉. We are honoured to share this issue with thought-provoking articles investigating multiple aspects of chromosomal instability and mitosis @dfachinetti.bsky.social @thecesarelab.bsky.social 🧵 1/4
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Wei-Ting Lu @weitinglu.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
I am happy to see that our paper is out just before the new year!!! We have a lab tweetorial out for anyone interested! Got to say it was an exciting journey working with CharlesSwanton, the wider TRACERx and PEACE team, and @nnennayakanu.bsky.social Jiri Bartek labs. 🧵1/14
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Wei-Ting Lu @weitinglu.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Congratulations Simone and team!! Great work!! 🎉🎉🎉
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