👏Congratulations to Harsimran Kaur for winning the Poster Prize at the Beatson International Cancer Conference 2025!

Thanks to Molecular Oncology for sponsoring this prize

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👏Congratulations to Britt van Abeelen for winning Best Short Talk at the Beatson International Cancer Conference 2025!

Thanks to Disease Models & Mechanisms and The Company of Biologists for sponsoring this prize

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And now for our final speaker of #BICC2025: Rong Fan (@rongfan8.bsky.social) from @yale.edu who will be telling us about his spatial multi-omics work in lymphoma

We’re onto our final session of #BICC2025, kicking it off we have Raheleh Amirkhah from @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social who is researching intestinal zonation and it’s role in tumour initiation, evolution and progression in colorectal cancer

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We have Ken S. Lau closing this session, presenting his research on crypt stem cells and non-crypt cells in colorectal tumour initiation

@vumedicine.bsky.social | #BICC2025

Marco Fritzsche took us into the field of biophysics to tell us about his lab’s work on new technologies to harvest the physics of T-cells to control the human immune response

@rosfrankinst.bsky.social | @kiroxford.bsky.social | #BICC2025

Kathryn Lilley spoke about her work on cell wide protein localisation to understand therapy resistance mechanisms

@cambiochem.bsky.social | #BICC2025

Another set of fantastic short talks from CRUK_SI’s Lisa Duff and Luis Pardo-Fernandez and @uoe-igc.bsky.social’s Jana Trávníčková

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Even had time for a quick spruce-up in between sessions at #BICC2025.

SEAGULLS PLEASE HAVE MERCY!

Next up: Karuna Ganesh (@karunamdphd.bsky.social) discussing dissecting plasticity during metastasis

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The final talk of this morning’s session was given by Jernej Ule from @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

Thanks to TransnetYX for sponsoring this talk!

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Next we have Edward Kaye from @dundee.ac.uk presenting on behalf of Tony Ly’s lab on their work investigating the mechanisms that underpin cell proliferation-dormancy switches

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After a superb evening at our conference dinner and ceilidh, we’re back for the final day of #BICC2025

First up: Ram DasGupta presenting his lab’s work on mapping trajectories of therapy-induced tumour evolution in space and time

@ramdasgupta.bsky.social | @uofgcancersciences.bsky.social

For our final talk of the day, we’re hearing from Luciana Luque (CRUK-SI) about her work at @edinburghuni.bsky.social spatially profiling the tumour immune microenvironment in TNBC to reveal distinct tumour states associated with chemotherapy response

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A fantastic keynote talk from Laura D. Wood about her lab’s exciting work with 3D multi-omic analysis of human pancreatic neoplasia

@hopkinsmedicine.bsky.social | #BICC2025

Thoroughly enjoyed giving an update on the ATM inhibitor mediated protection against radiotherapy associated normal brain toxicity, expertly led by @profajchalmers.bsky.social & Prof Kaye Williams. Thanks #BICC2025

Next we’re hearing from Britt van Abeelen from CRUK-SI about her work in the Miller and Bushell labs: a tRNA regulatory nexus of cell-state dependent protein expression

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Francesca Ciccarelli @ciccarellilab.bsky.social is up next to tell us about spatial drivers of response to immunotherapy in colon cancer

Thank you to TransnetYX for sponsoring Francesca’s talk!

@qmbci.bsky.social | @crick.ac.uk | @cruk-cityoflondon.bsky.social | #BICC2025

Although I'm not at #BICC2025 in person, my sources tell me that I've made an appearance in spirit wearing my mathematical modelling hat...! 😆🤩

Now time for some maths… Helen Byrne from @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social talked us through her work using maths to analyse tumour-immune interactions

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Next up: short talks from Mark Jackson (@radbioinformatics.bsky.social) looking at modification of the adverse effects of radiotherapy on the brain with DNA damage response inhibitors and Inge Jacobs (KU Leuven) who spoke about SPP1 macrophages and inflammatory signalling in CRC

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Continuing with the theme of AI, Fayyaz Minhas talked us through the promise and limitations of computational pathology deep learning models

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Welcome back for Day 2 of the Beatson International Cancer Conference 2025!

Kicking off today, we have Ke Yuan discussing self-supervised AI and how his group and collaborators are using it to map the landscape of histomorphological cancer phenotypes

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We are delighted to have Scott W. Lowe give this year’s Sir George Beatson Lecture!

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Next we’re hearing from Sara A. Wickström, Director of @mpi-muenster.bsky.social, who is discussing phenotype and cell state dynamics in cancer

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...and don't forget that the great @josh-moore.bsky.social is on site, if anyone wants to go and find him at Poster 23! #BICC2025

(Bring drinks, snacks, or other bribery, and he'll definitely be happy to help chat about your spatial biology needs!)

Kicking off the final session of the day, we have @leedham-simon.bsky.social talking about using spatial biology to map interactions in colorectal cancer

Thanks to @worldwidecancer.bsky.social for sponsoring Simon’s talk!

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Just been sent a photo of #MuSpAn on a VERY big screen indeed at the Beatson International Cancer Conference @cruk-si.bsky.social ... if you want more details, check out the website at www.muspan.co.uk, or read our preprint at doi.org/10.1101/2024... !

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Our #ECRs were asked who they wanted to hear speak at #BICC2025 and they invited @mirjana-efremova.bsky.social from @qmbci.bsky.social, she presented her work on phenotypic heterogeneity in colorectal cancer metastasis

Session 2 of the day started with short talks from Mikaela Behm from @dkfz.bsky.social and Edward Esiri-Bloom from @uoe-igc.bsky.social

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