Sarah Aitken

The exciting next instalment of Mutations in Time and Space... Open for registration now

📢 EvoMG-DN PhD applications are now open!
Join our EU-funded MSCA network and explore evolution, ageing, and disease.
👉 www.evomg-dn.eu

📅 Apply by 30 November 2025

#PhD #DoctoralTraining #MSCA #HorizonEurope #Genomics #EvolutionaryBiology #BiomedicalResearch#EarlyCareerResearchers

It was an honor to take part in the @yalepathology.bsky.social research retreat today! Great science, inspiring discussions, a fun “guess who?”, and wonderful people. Huge thanks to organizers for such a great work! Can’t believe only 2 months left to enjoy this amazing #AitkenLab team ✨

Thank you James, Shannon, and co for organising an interesting mix of science and trivia...

And we finally met the person behind the @yalepathology.bsky.social handle - thanks for sharing our work, Terry!

Today was our first Yale Pathology Department retreat - with Klaske, Barbara, Jacob, and Vanessa (we missed you Tanuja!) Great to present our work with a poster and two talks, share ideas, and meet new people

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@yalepathology.bsky.social @bhernando.bsky.social

Find out all about what's going on in Dr Coraline Mlynarczyk‬'s lab - our neighbours at #CMCO...

📽️ Exploring the interface between Immunology and Cancer

@yalepathology.bsky.social

A trio of talks this week: Grand Rounds @jhu.edu yesterday. Then @bhernando.bsky.social (who has only been here a fortnight!) and I gave talks at the NYC Genome Integrity Discussion group @rockefeller.edu. Thanks for inviting us Agata Smogorzewska and Philipp Oberdoerffer

@yalepathology.bsky.social

Sex and smoking bias in the selection of somatic mutations in human bladder - Nature Sex bias and association with smoking history identified in the landscape of driver mutations and clonal expansions in normal human bladder tissue may explain the higher bladder cancer risk in men and smokers.

🚨 New paper alert!

Sex and smoking bias in the selection of somatic mutations in human bladder

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

by @raquelbmi.bsky.social, @ferriol.bsky.social et al (in collaboration with Rosana Risques lab in @uwmedicine.bsky.social)

Exciting 3 months ahead at the #AitkenLab @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social! 🤩

Huge thanks to @s-j-aitken.bsky.social for the warm welcome, and to @caixaresearch.bsky.social for supporting my research career at all levels ✨

🥳 Today we welcome Dr Bárbara Hernando @bhernando.bsky.social to the #AitkenLab @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social

Bárbara joins us from #CNIO as part of her @caixaresearch.bsky.social Postdoctoral Junior Leader Fellowship

@yalepathology.bsky.social @yalecancer.bsky.social @cniostopcancer.bsky.social

A fantastic (first) Closer to Free Ride: 100 miles with friends from #NHBC, colleagues from @yalecancer.bsky.social , and a #CycloPath we met along the way. Thank you for all the sponsorship - and the support on the road!

#CTFRide @ctfride.bsky.social

Thank you Coraline - having friendly, supportive neighbours certainly helps 😊

Yesterday was our fourth lab-iversary 🥳

In the last year we moved to the US, welcomed new lab members at Yale and in Cambridge, mastered Transatlantic hybrid lab life, posted preprints, published others, submitted grants... Looking forward to what year five has in store!

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💡 Cancer cells don’t just mutate—they reorganize their DNA in 3D space.
Our new study shows how the genome’s folding pattern shifts as tumors progress, cell by cell 🧩🧬.
It’s the first 3D genome atlas of cancer progression.
Thread 👇

Almost half way to our fundraising target - and only two weeks to go!

I'll be riding the 100 mile #CloserToFreeRide to raise money to support cancer research and patient care. Please consider donating - every penny counts!

➡️ www.rideclosertofree.org/participants...

#CTFRide @ctfride.bsky.social

The Sanger Excellence Fellowship is back for 2025!

Our 3 year fully funded postdoctoral position supports early-career researchers from Black heritage backgrounds.

📅 Apply by 7 Sept 2025
🔗 www.sanger.ac.uk/about/equali...

#BlackInSTEM #GenomicsResearch

Congratulations Vinaya 🤩

Congratulations @ailithewing.bsky.social and team! Great to see this work published 🥳

Postdoctoral Fellow in Coorens Group We are looking for a motivated and talented postdoctoral-level researcher with experience in genomic analyses to join the newly established Coorens group at EMBL-EBI. We study how normal cells in diff...

Last but not least, if you're interested in somatic mutations, new technologies and computational genomics - we're hiring a postdoc in my brand new lab
@emblebi.bsky.social!

Reach out if interested or you have any questions, and apply here: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

The Somatic Mosaicism across Human Tissues Network - Nature The Somatic Mosaicism across Human Tissues Network aims to create a reference catalogue of somatic mosaicism across different tissues and cells within individuals.

The cells in our bodies constantly acquire mutations. But what are the patterns of mutations across tissues? How do mutations in normal cells lead to cancer and disease? These are questions we will tackle within the Somatic Mosaicism across Human Tissues (SMaHT) Network, now described in @nature.com

Congratulations Anna, Kiran, and team! Great to see this finally published 🥳

Congrats to all of you 🤩

On Sep 6 we are riding to raise funds for cancer research and patient care.
Join the #Cyclopaths team to ride with us! Can chose 10/25/40/65/100 miles 🚴

or support the effort with a donation :)

www.rideclosertofree.org/index.cfm?fu...

www.rideclosertofree.org/index.cfm?fu...

100% of the funds we raise will go directly towards supporting cancer research and care for those who need it most - the families, patients and team at Smilow Cancer Hospital and Yale Cancer Center.

Thank you in advance for considering a generous donation!

@coraline-mly.bsky.social

A fundraising page for Sarah Aitken Join the Closer to Free Ride on Saturday, September 6th. Register or donate at RideCloserToFree.org.

Together with friends and colleagues from #CMCO @yalecancer.bsky.social, @yalepathology.bsky.social, and further afield, we are the #CycloPaths

Closer to Free Ride
🚲06 September 2025
💪100 miles
#CTFRide

Join our team, spread the word, sponsor us if you can www.rideclosertofree.org/participants...

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A great week in Lisbon at the European Association for Cancer Research 2025 Congress. Thank you @helloeacr.bsky.social for the #WomenInLeadership Workshop, the opportunity to present our #ProfferedPaper, and to talk science with collaborators (and make new ones!)

#EACR2025

Under the microscope: DNA damage tracked through cell generations An ingenious technique reveals how stressed cells divide to produce progeny that have different traits — a phenomenon that can initiate cancer.

@s-j-aitken.bsky.social comments on a live-cell tracking system that shows how DNA damage spreads unevenly through generations of cells, driving genome instability + heterogeneity potentially shaping #cancer evolution and resistance.
nature.com/articles/d41...
@yalepathology.bsky.social @nature.com

Does #Genetic Background Set the Trajectory of #Cancer Evolution? @s-j-aitken.bsky.social Assistant Professor of #Pathology at @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social, covered that topic at today’s @yalecancer.bsky.social Translational Science Retreat. Dr. Aitken specializes in GI & molecular pathology.

Multigenerational cell tracking of a single cell to its eight great-granddaughters: Watch PCNA foci accumulate during each S phase, and then decrease quickly in S-G2 transition
bsky.app/profile/altm...