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The CrickConnect team are delighted to be able to invite community members to join us for the institute's regular Crick Lecture.
Crick Lectures provide a broad insight into biomedical research from leading scientists. Not to be missed, the one-hour lectures are the event of the week for the Crick community to come together.
This installment will be delivered by Crick Group Leader Peter Van Loo.
Crick Lectures take place weekly (usually on Thursday at 16:00). They are given by leading scientists and aim to be accessible to scientists across different disciplines, while also offering something for the specialist.
Due to the pioneering and sensitive nature of some of the research discussed in these lectures, only Crick Lectures from selected Crick group leaders will be shared, and we ask all attendees to respect the private nature of these talks by refraining from making any type of recording, sharing access details or in any other way compromising the research that is discussed.
Speaker Profile
Peter Van Loo is a Winton Group Leader at the Francis Crick Institute in recognition of the Winton Charitable Foundation's generous donation towards the institute.
During his postdoctoral training at the University of Oslo, the University of Leuven, and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, he developed computational techniques to study copy-number alterations in cancer genomes, and approaches to study the evolutionary history and subclonal architecture of tumors from whole-genome sequencing data, a field coined “molecular archeology of cancer”.
Peter’s research at the Francis Crick Institute leverages massively parallel sequencing efforts to study cancer genes, mutational processes in cancer, and tumor evolution. His work has sketched the typical evolutionary trajectories of many cancer types, allowing insight into the timelines of cancer development, as well as insight into how tumors metastasize.
He is the main lead of the Evolution and Heterogeneity working group of the Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes (PCAWG) initiative, and the genomics lead of the Sarcoma arm of the 100,000 Genomes Project.
Peter has been awarded a Cancer Research UK Future Leaders in Cancer Research Prize in 2015 and a VIB Alumni Award in 2017.
Login details for the lecture will be shared with registered attendees by email shortly before the lecture is scheduled to start.
Please contact george.pyrgos@crick.ac.uk with any questions.