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Congratulations to Maximilian Stammnitz, who has won first prize for his poster “Disease doppelgängers: genomic characterisation of two transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils” at the EMBL Cancer Genomics Conference in Heidelberg!

Many congratulations to Adrian Baez-Ortega, who won the 2017 Abcam Prize for Graduate Research at the Department of Veterinary Medicine! Adrian's research focuses on understanding the diversity and evolution of the canine transmissible venereal tumour.

TCG Part II student Alex Sampson won the Prize for best project in Part II Pathology (Cancer and Genetic Diseases) for his project "Characterising somatically arising nuclear insertions of mitochondrial DNA (NuMTs) in Canine Transmissible Venereal Tumour".Many congratulations Alex!

Many congratulation to Alex Sampson,the Part II student of TCG group, who won the Prize for best project in Part II Pathology (Cancer and Genetic Diseases). Alex did his Part II project: "Characterising somatically arising nuclear insertions of mitochondrial DNA (NuMTs) in Canine Transmissible Venereal Tumour".Well done Alex!

Many congratulation on Máire Ní Leathlobhair’s new paper "No evidence for clonal transmission of urogenital carcinoma in California sea lions (Zalophus californianus)" published by Wellcome Open Research on the 22nd June 2017!Well done Máire!

Many congratulations to AdrianBaez-Ortega andKevinGori on their new review,'Computational approaches for discovery of mutational signatures in cancer' (BIB-17-0115.R1), which has been accepted for publication in Briefings in Bioinformatics on the 27th June 2017.Well done both of you!

Congratulations to Andrea Strakova, who has been awarded the 2017 Canine Health Awards Postgraduate Student Inspiration Award from the Kennel Club. Andrea will receive £10,000, which she will use to support her postdoctoral research on CTVT. Find more information about the award here.

Andrea Strakova has been selected as one of twelve recipients of the 2017 Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) student awards. The awards recognise excellence in research by postgraduate students at the University of Cambridge. Andrea’s research is on the evolution and host interactions of the canine transmissible venereal tumou…

Several TCG members attended the 9th International Conference on Canine and Feline Genomics in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Congratulations to Adrian Baez-Ortega who won a Student Travel Award for best student abstract.

Dr. Rodrigo Hamede from the University of Tasmania, came to visit the TCG this week. Rodrigo is a colleague working on Tasmanian devils, we had a nice discussion about our current projects and future collaborations.  

TCG member Dr. Tracy Wang recently attended "The 6th China Small Animal Veterinary Physician Conference", which was held in Haikou, China, April 10-13, 2017. China Small Animal Veterinary Physician Conference has been recognized as the industry's most authoritative in mainland China,  it provides the best platform for the highest level of lecturers…

The 2016 TCG Christmas Party! Merry Christmas everyone!

Many congratulations to TCG former postdoc Jose Tubio, who has been awarded a highly competitive ERC Starter Grant. The grant will allow Jose, who is now a faculty member at the University of Vigo, Spain, http://darwin.uvigo.es/mobgenomes/ to start up an exciting research programme on transmissible cancers in marine bivalves. Congratulations, Jose!

Congratulations to Andrea Strakova, who has been awarded a scholarship from the British Federation of Women Graduates (BFWG) for her research on CTVT. The scholarship, which is based purely on academic excellence, recognises Andrea’s important and exciting contributions to the field of transmissible cancers. The scholarship is available to final ye…