We are pleased to announce our first speaker in our Colloquium 2023!
Martin Schäfer from the Istituto Europeo di Oncologia in Milano will give a presentation entitled "Selection in tumor genome and epigenome evolution"
When? March 23 starting at 4 pm
Where? Maud-Menten-Hall
Philippstraße 13
Haus 18 (3rd floor)
10115 Berlin
Martin Schäfer and his lab members are interested how alterations of the DNA transform a healthy into a malignant cell. Recent efforts uncovered a large number of genetic or epigenetic alterations in cancer patients, but it is difficult to tell which of those contribute to disease progression.
As the process of cancer development often takes many years, they are studying the evolutionary principles and try to understand how the environment modulates cancer evolution.
Additionally, with newly developed methods using tools from network and systems biology they try to better understand the interplay between different alterations in cancer genomes and epigenomes.