Anthology of unusual patterns of somatic mutations in cancer genomes
ITEB Seminar Series
January 19, 2023 | 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Online via Zoom
Speaker:
Ludmil Alexandrov, M.Phil., Ph.D.
University of California San Diego
Description:
Dr. Ludmil Alexandrov is an Associate Professor at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Dr. Alexandrov received his Ph.D. in 2014 from the University of Cambridge researching mutational processes and signatures in human cancers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. Dr. Alexandrov then went on to research as an Oppenheimer Fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 2014 to 2017 before becoming an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at UCSD in 2018. He was appointed as an Associate Professor at UCSD in 2021.
His research on mutational signatures and algorithms for mutational signature decomposition in human cancers has received numerous awards and recognition: recognition from the American Society of Clinical Oncology (2014), the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center’s Harold M. Weintraub Award (2015), Science magazine’s Prize for Young Scientists in Genomics and Proteomics (2015), Oxford University Press’ Carcinogenesis Young Investigator Award (2016), Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Computational & Evolutionary Molecular Biology (2018), the Balfour Prize Lecture of the Genetics Society (2018), The International Academy for Medical and Biological Engineering’s Early Career Award (2018), the Packard Foundation’s Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering (2019), and the Outstanding New Environmental Scientist Award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (2020).
Dr. Alexandrov’s many publications have been cited 36,858 times as of August 2022. His lab develops and maintains the highly popular SigProfiler software suite for mutational signature analysis, and collaborates with Wellcome Sanger Institute to maintain the COSMIC catalogue of mutational signatures.
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Host:
Maria Teresa Landi, M.D., Ph.D.
Senior Investigator and Senior Advisor for Genomic Epidemiology
Integrative Tumor Epidemiology Branch and Transdivisional Research Program