Rib boat tour

I got a voucher for a rib boat tour on the Thames from my wife for Christmas. That was a fantastic experience yesterday.

Paper accepted!

Our paper has just been accepted by the Leukemia. I haven't published at this level yet so this is a real jump in my publication record which is great :-) Celebration with some beer in Florida...
                                                       

CYTO 2014

The annual conference of the ISAC with appr 1,600 attendees is being held in Ft Lauderdale, FL. It's my pleasure to serve as a Program Committee member and take part in session chairing, poster judging, etc. There are some really great talks and posters and it's always nice to see so many colleagues and friends. The weather is excellent and the temperature of the ocean allows to swim even after dusk.

Sign on the sidewalk (showing where the entrance of the venue is)

Entrance Hall

 Convention Center

 

A yacht worth 180 million bucks

 Everglades

Single-cell analysis

I've just completed a series of cool single-cell experiments using the Fluidigm high-throughput microfluidic platform. Just before my arrival at Sutton, a colleague of mine had set up an application that allows to analyse a lot of interesting genetic changes at single-cell resolution. The method has been described in detail here. In my project, I've we used it for exploring the subclonal architectures and phylogenetic histories of leukemias developed in monozygotic twin siblings. These cancers have a common in utero origin and it was interesting to see how differently cancer can evolve on the same genetic background.