Lise Mangiante’s departure
Mixed feelings (pride and sadness) of seeing our talented PhD student, Lise Mangiante, moving to her next career step: an amazing postdoc in Christina Curtis’ lab!!
Scientific discussions between Instituto de Salud Carlos III and IARC
Lynnette Fernandez-Cuesta presented the Rare Cancers Genomics initiative in these discussion series aiming at strengthening the collaboration between IARC-WHO and the ISC III.
RCG will be very well represented in the upcoming 2022 IASLC World Conference on Lung Cancer
Congratulations to the whole team! One invited talk, four abstracts selected for oral presentations, and two Early Career Education Awards! We will be presenting our recent data on the MESOMICS, lungNENomics, Artificial Intelligence and Cancer Evolution projects!
ISCIII-IARC scientific discussion series
Lynnette Fernandez-Cuesta presented the RCG initiative at the ISCIII-IARC scientific discussion series about “Research and cancer: the impact of genomics in disease prevention and treatment”. Great opportunity to find common areas of research to start new scientific collaborations.
New statistical genetics paper on quantifying the level of population structure
Nicolas Alcala and Noah Rosenberg report new theoretical results regarding the use and interpretation of population structure statistics. This work is part of a themed issue in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B entitled “Celebrating 50 years since Lewontin’s apportionment of human diversity,” featuring articles about the legacy of Lewontin’s 1972 seminal paper in