Medicine at the Crick | The good, the bad, and the ugly: tissue somatic evolution in ageing and disease

Welcome and introduction

Lecture Professor Cedric Blanpain (Professor and Director of the Laboratory of Stem Cells and Cancer, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

“Regulation of stem cell plasticity during the early stages of tumor initiation”

Lecture Professor Phil Jones (Senior Group Leader, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Professor of Cancer Development, University of Cambridge and Medical Oncology Consultant, Addenbrooke’s Hospital)

“Somatic evolution in ageing epithelium”

Lecture Professor Sabine Werner (Professor of Cell Biology, ETH Zurich)

“Stromal-epithelial interactions in wound repair and cancer”
 

Lecture Dr Maria P. Alcolea (Associate Professor, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute/ Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge)

“Fate versus free will: what determines the survival of nascent tumours?”
 

Tea/coffee break

Lecture Dr Foad Rouhani (Group Leader, The Francis Crick Insitute, Reader, Kings College London & Honorary Consultant Transplant Surgeon, Kings College Hospital)

“Biological insights from somatic mosaicism in the human liver”

Q&A and panel discussion 

Panellists: Professor Cedric Blanpain, Professor Phil Jones, Professor Sabine Werner, Dr Maria Alcolea and Dr Foad Rouhani
 

End of seminar followed by networking and drinks reception for in-person attendees