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Researching somatic evolution at the University of Cambridge and Wellcome Sanger Institute. Also a scientific illustrator.
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Mitchell Vollger on comprehensive diploid genetic and epigenetic profiles with single-molecule precision

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Congratulations to Svante Pääbo, my PhD supervisor, for his “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”

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Hongkai Zhang on locating recombination events using a three-generation pedigree of the great reed warbler GENECO PhD retreat

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The four colours in the dots represent the four nucleotides of DNA while the dots themselves in their various sizes represent the process of mutation and allude to the clonal expansion plots found in papers such as Martincorena et al. 2015 https://t.co/Xd1Af8TX8c

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Important questions remained unsolved. Cancer risk is expected to increase with body size. Yet across species there appears to be no correlation between body-size and cancer risk. Could somatic mutation rates have evolved to be lower in larger animals?[4/24]

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Important questions remained unsolved. Cancer risk is expected to increase with body size. Yet across species there appears to be no correlation between body-size and cancer risk. Could somatic mutation rates have evolved to be lower in larger animals?[3/17]

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Great talk! Just realised I wrote fantastical instead of fantastic - here’s a corrected update!

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Daniel Shaye on the elegant C.elegans as a platform for understanding tubulogenesis

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Susan Quaggin on the value of models for understanding biology and dysfunction

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