Too kind Duncan, thank you.

We focused the first #CANPOP on our local SE England community, but would be delighted to open it up nationally or even internationally for #CANPOP2.

Our goal is to help grow the cancer popgen community. Please do shout if you'd like to join us (also we're open to ideas of how to organise this too)

Speakers were:
@carolinewatson.bsky.social (pre-leukaemia)
Verena Körber (Oxford) - SFS modelling
@calumgabbutt.bsky.social - methylation lineage tracing
@benjaminwerner.bsky.social - ecDNA evolution
@zaccasimo.bsky.social - CNA phylogenetics
Liz Murchison (Cambridge) - transmissible cancer

Both projects involve lots of collaboration, supervision, mentorship and training (& travel!) across our @evomg-dn.bsky.social network. They mandate motility across the #EU and partner countries too. Consequently I think the studentships will offer exceptionally rich #PhD experiences.

The second is about potential fitness costs of cancer drug resistance, and how we might exploit them using approaches like adaptive therapy. (building on our work with @mlockley.bsky.social in ovarian cancer: aacrjournals.org/cancerres/ar...). Description here: www.icr.ac.uk/study-and-ca...

The first is about developing new approaches to track cancer evolution from cell free DNA (cfDNA - liquid biopsy), and is a collaboration with industry partner nonacus.com Description here: www.icr.ac.uk/study-and-ca...