News

Happy New Year!

3 February 2026

Happy New Year 2026 from the TCG! We started the social TCG gatherings of this year with a lunch to celebrate birthdays of a number of TCG members. We also welcomed new members to our lab and had a visit from Nicolas Bierne , a population geneticist from the University of Montpellier. Now we are all looking forward to the...

Christmas TCG party

19 December 2025

Christmas TCG celebration with lots of amazing cultural food, fun quiz and a Secret Santa! Merry Christmas, everyone!

Dr Julie Dragon visits

15 December 2025

Dr Julie Dragon from the University of Vermont visited the TCG group and gave a fascinating talk to the whole department. She talked about a melanoma, which has been present in brown bullheads (a type of catfish) in a lake spanning Vermont, USA and Quebec, Canada since 2012, and their genetic analysis of these samples. We...

TCG at Companion Animal Genetic Health conference

12 December 2025

A number of TCG members took part and presented their work at the third biennial Companion Animal Genetic Health (CAGH) conference which was held on 8th-9th December in Cambridge. It was a wonderful collaborative meeting with lots of inspiring talks, discussions and a conference dinner at the St John's college. Many thanks...

ICR CANPOP meeting

2 December 2025

Some of the TCG group members attended the 1st POPCAN meeting at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) in London on 1st December - it was an afternoon full of stimulating talks (including one by our PI, Liz Murchison) as well as an authentic experience of the London underground during rush hours. We look forward to the...

WECare Sri Lanka

24 November 2025

The founder of WECare, Dr Janey Lowes, visited the Transmissible Cancer Group to share her experience of TVT in street dogs of Sri Lanka. It was a fascinating presentation with lots of photos to show how effective vincristine treatment can be when treating TVT infection in dogs - Janey and her team have treated some...

Rebecca RCVS photo credit: Rebecca Scott

Rebecca Scott presenting at the RCVS Fellowship Day

26 October 2025

Congratulations to one of our undergraduate students, Rebecca Scott, who has been shortlisted as one of the final three students of the Fellows of the Future Student Competition to present her research at this year’s RCVS Fellowship Day! Rebecca’s project work focused on the face and body location of tumours in Tasmanian...

TCG movie night

26 October 2025

The first TCG movie night at the cinema! What a fun social evening for the whole group – we went to see a movie filmed just around the corner, in some of the University of Cambridge colleges!

PhD opportunity with the Transmissible Cancer Group

9 October 2025

The Transmissible Cancer Group is now recruiting a PhD student for an exciting new project investigating the long-term stability of DNA methylation in mammalian transmissible cancers. This research will provide intriguing insights into how gene expression programmes evolve over extended time periods, potentially...

Visitor from Austria

7 October 2025

We had an enriching time listening to Anna Schönbichler’s presentation about her work on Tasmanian devil cell lines. Anna is currently a PhD student at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna. Thank you for sharing your interesting results with us, Anna!