On the 8th of November 2018 Laura Riva of the Sanger Centre, Hinxton, UK will give a seminar entitled Mutational signatures in environmental, carcinogen-induced lung and liver tumours at 2.00 pm in the College lecture theatre.  In her talk L Riva will present new data from genomic analysis of experimental and human lung and liver tumours as a basis for understanding the origin and progression of such tumours. These studies will prove fundamental for understanding the molecualr and cellular evolution human cancer and for developing new and effective cancer therapies.

All College students are invited to attend, especially those reading Medicine, Biology, Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Sciences. The poster of the lecture can be downloaded here. Further information about the seminar, including abstract, references and a short biography of the speaker can be found at this page.

Image: a gene network. Courtesy of B Aiello, University of Chicago.