We are very pleased to announce our next joint Sven Furberg Seminar in Bioinformatics and Statistical Genomics and Biostatistical seminar, which will take place on Thursday, April 30th at 14.30 as a Zoom meeting. You can find the login details below.
Our speaker will be Dr. Florian Markowetz (Group Leader, Integrative Cancer Biology Team, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, UK, http://www.markowetzlab.org).
He will speak about: A pan-cancer compendium of chromosomal instability
Abstract: Chromosomal instability (CIN) is one of the earliest molecular characteristics to be described in cancer. Since its detection using light microscopy in the late 19th century technological advances have facilitated observation at increasing resolution. This has revealed extreme genomic complexity which we are only starting to understand. Here, using genomic profiling of a large cohort of patient tumours, we present a comprehensive compendium of CIN in cancer. We show that 80% of all tumours have detectable CIN which is predominantly caused by mitotic errors or impaired homologous recombination. We provide a framework in which to interrogate and quantify different types of CIN in cancer in order to facilitate improved understanding of this fundamental feature of cancer.
For more information see
http://www.med.uio.no/imb/english/research/centres/ocbe/events/biostat-seminar/ and
https://www.mn.uio.no/sbi/english/furberg-seminars/.
We are planning to make this meeting as interactive as possible and invite everybody to stay in the meeting after the talk for our usual post-talk “pizza and chat with the speaker”. Unfortunately, you will have to provide the pizza yourselves this time though. :-)
Looking forward to see you all at the seminar!
Manuela & Anthony
Zoom meeting: https://uio.zoom.us/j/63772679340?pwd=bXpkZCtNTzVLYVJ1YkFWeWZVNHJHdz09 Meeting ID: 637 7267 9340 Password: furberg Documentation on how to use Zoom can be found here: https://www.uio.no/english/services/it/phone-chat-videoconf/zoom/
