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Researching somatic evolution at the University of Cambridge and Wellcome Sanger Institute. Also a scientific illustrator.

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Alex Cagan
3 years
Incredibly excited to share our paper ‘Somatic mutation rates scale with lifespan across mammals’ now published @nature. An illustrated & updated tweetorial… [1/24]
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RT @sangerinstitute: What Earth’s biggest animals could teach us about beating cancer 📰(£) . Rhys Blakely @thetimes writes about Alex Cagan….
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5 months
I wrote up a presentation from a recent @CR_UK workshop on 'the biology of ageing to cancer prevention' into my first post on substack
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7 months
RT @TimCoorens: Spread the word! Registration for the "Mutations in Time and Space" conference is open. The meeting is all about the origin….
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8 months
RT @heatherEmachado: Join us! The Machado Lab at @Cambridge_Uni is looking for an enthusiastic RA to be a core member of the team and lead….
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8 months
Enjoyed working with @genomeresearch to design the cover for their special issue on Long-read DNA and RNA Sequencing
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8 months
RT @Euphrasiologist: Last chance to apply for our fully funded PhD (thanks @CamPhilSoc), welcome to *all students* on somatic evolution in….
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8 months
Two days remaining to apply for a Postdoc in my team exploring somatic mutational landscapes across primate species. The position is based @GeneticsCam and will involve collaboration with @sangerinstitute and @UCBerkeley.
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Alex Cagan
9 months
🦍Postdoc in Somatic Evolutionary Genomics🦍.Join my team @GeneticsCam on a pioneering project mapping somatic mutations across primates!.🌍Collaborate with experts @UCBerkeley & @sangerinstitute. 🔍Experience in genomics? Apply by Nov 16!.Details:
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Alex Cagan
8 months
Great illustrated summary of my talk at #ASHG24 from @PhDood1es.
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Megan Gozzard
8 months
Learning from the master #ASHG24 @ATJCagan
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8 months
Talk by @TimCoorens on charting landscapes of somatic mutation with the SMaHT consortium #ASHG24
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Laura Conlin on mosaicism in a diagnostic setting #ASHG24
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Luis Paulin on detection of mosaics structural variation with Sniffles2 #ASHG24
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Christopher Walsh on somatic monasticism and its link to disease in the human brain #ASHG24
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Duncan Palmer on the biobank rare variant consortium powering the discovery of rare genetic associations #ASHG24
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Giovanni Quinones-Valdez on long read RNA seq to study alternative splicing #ASHG24
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Nahyun Kong on the genetic architecture of congenital heart disease in relation to uniparental disomy #ASHG24
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Talk by Rajiv McCoy on the genetic architecture of meiotic recombination from over 100,000 in vitro fertilised embryos #ASHG24
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8 months
First plenary session talk by Marie-Julie Fave on mosaic chromosomal abnormalities in blood across ancestries #ASHG24
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Alex Cagan
8 months
Great to see this milestone study by @MDC_Neville and @R_Rahbari on postive selection in the male germline finally out. It sheds light on the origins of paternal age associated disorders. Great to have been involved in. See tweetorial here:.
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Matthew Neville
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Excited to share our new preprint in which we address:.(1) Accurate sequencing of sperm at scale.(2) Positive selection of spermatogenesis driver mutations across the exome.(3) Offspring disease risks from male reproductive aging.[1/15].
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RT @heatherEmachado: PhD and Postdoc positions available! Interested in how our immune system evolves with a growing tumour, and how we can….
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🦍Postdoc in Somatic Evolutionary Genomics🦍.Join my team @GeneticsCam on a pioneering project mapping somatic mutations across primates!.🌍Collaborate with experts @UCBerkeley & @sangerinstitute. 🔍Experience in genomics? Apply by Nov 16!.Details:
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