BOL: Category: All

SIMON BOULTON LAB

Tue, 11 Dec 2018 09:01:46 -0600

DNA is quite fragile and easily damaged, both by the normal processes of life at work within our cells and by external agents such as the chemicals in tobacco smoke or ultraviolet (UV) rays from the sun. However, our cells have evolved clever ‘repair kits’ that spot DNA damage and patch it up, helping to protect us against tumours. If these repair kits are faulty or inefficient then mistakes can quickly build up and cause cells to become cancerous.

They are particularly interested in a type of DNA repair known as double-strand break repair, which happens when the DNA molecule has been completely snapped in two. Not only does this happen in normal cells in the body to repair DNA damage, but it also occurs when eggs and sperm are made (known as meiosis) and during the generation of cells in the immune system.

https://www.crick.ac.uk/research/labs/simon-boulton

CHARLES SWANTON LAB

Tue, 11 Dec 2018 08:09:22 -0600

They are using the latest DNA sequencing technology to read the genetic makeup of cancer cells within tumours in ever greater detail, teasing out patterns of evolution (evolutionary rule books), cancer heterogeneity and working out what changes have happened as a tumour evolves. We’re also investigating the processes that cause mutations and accelerate tumour evolution and working out how they might be stopped. And we are running evolutionary clinical trials with immune and targeted therapies to bring the benefits of our work to patients as quickly as possible.

https://www.crick.ac.uk/research/labs/charles-swanton

Sidow Lab

Fri, 07 Dec 2018 09:06:30 -0600

We study mechanisms of cancer evolution by using state-of-the-art genomic approaches at the bench and in analysis. Accurate genome reconstruction is our other major area of interest. We also collaborate on important questions for which our expertise in genomics and computation is relevant. Arend's biosketch highlights some of our past contributions.

http://www.sidowlab.org/

Simpson Lab

Tue, 06 Mar 2018 08:59:09 -0600

We are the Statistical Bioinformatics group in the Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. The group is led by Dr. Ian Simpson who is a Lecturer in Biological Informatics in the School of Informatics at Edinburgh University. Details to follow....

http://statbio.github.io

Hejnol Group

Thu, 22 Feb 2018 16:02:53 -0600

The group studies a broad range of animal taxa using morphological and molecular tools to unravel the evolution and development of animal organ systems.

To understand the evolution of the biodiversity seen on planet earth is one of the major goals in biology. How animals explored new habitats from only being confined to the marine environment and the how the forms diversified is still one of the most tremendous questions to be answered.

http://www.sars.no/research/HejnolGrp.php