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Nicolas Bierne Apr 14, 2025

#PostDoc in #Montpellier on mussel transmissible cancers genomes. These weird cancers, microparasites with a mussel genome, have undergone genome doublings and aneuploidisation. You will play with PacBio and Nanopore data. Join the #HyperCan team in a joyfull environment. #TransCan #MarEvol #PopGen #MusselsAreCool #JobAlert https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/333894

Post-Doctoral Researcher – Haplotype-Resolved Assembly and Structural Variation of Polyploid Genomes in Transmissible Cancers of the Blue Mussel (M/F)

- work environment: Host-Pathogen-Environment Interactions Laboratory (UMR5244 IHPE), Montpellier - main mission:

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Nicolas Bierne May 22, 2024

Still open PhD position
#Job #phd #Evolution #Genomics #Cancer #TransCan #MarBiol #Polyploidy #PopGen #France
Here is an offer for a PhD (ERC HYPERCAN project) on the evolution of a transmissible cancer, with a focus on hyperploidy variations:
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/230401
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Nicolas Bierne May 1, 2024

#Job #phd #Evolution #Genomics #Cancer #TransCan #MarBiol #Polyploidy #France

Here is an offer for a PhD (ERC HYPERCAN project) on the evolution of a transmissible cancer, with a focus on hyperploidy variations:
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/230401

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Funded PhD: Mechanisms and evolutionary significance of hyperploidy variations in blue mussel transmissible cancer

Transmissible cancers are fascinating biological entities that spread from one animal to another by the direct transfer of cancer cells, behaving in this way like parasitic life forms.

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Nicolas Bierne Feb 21, 2024

I'm delighted to see our study on the prevalence of the mussel transmissible cancer MtrBTN2 published today in Proc Roy Soc B. A great piece of work by Maurine Hammel, with a nice multidisciplinary collaboration. We had originally planned to test for higher prevalence in one of the two host species in sympatry, but ended up finding a better spread in urban marine waters. #TransCan #MusselsAreCool

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.2541

Nicolas Bierne Oct 13, 2023

Four papers on transmissible cancers in bivalves #TransCan in a row:
The two genome papers that have been on BioRXiv for a while are now published in Nature Cancer:
Mya arenaria MarBTN:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43018-023-00643-7
Cerastoderma edule CedBTN:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43018-023-00641-9
And two papers on #MusselsAreCool BTN MtrBTN in Open Biology and Molecular Ecology :
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsob.230259
https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17157

Centuries of genome instability and evolution in soft-shell clam, Mya arenaria, bivalve transmissible neoplasia - Nature Cancer

Hart et al. study the transmissible marine leukemia of the soft-shell clam Mya arenaria and focus on a cancer lineage that is characterized by varied genomic instability as well as a mutational signature that includes an error-prone polymerase.

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Nicolas Bierne Sep 6, 2023

Je crois que c'est une des premières #ERCStG portée par l'@umontpellier décrochée en Sciences de la Vie section LS8 (Ecologie & Evolution). Toutes mes félicitations à Erika Burioli pour son projet HYPERCAN sur le cancer transmissible des moules 🥳 #TransCan #MusselsAreCool #MolEvol #WomenInSTEM
https://erc.europa.eu/news-events/news/erc-2023-starting-grants-results

ERC Starting Grants: 400 bright minds awarded over €628 million

The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the awarding of 400 Starting Grants to young scientists and scholars across Europe. The grants - totalling €628 million - support cutting-edge research in a wide range of fields, from medicine and physics to social sciences and humanities. They will help researchers at the beginning of their careers to launch their own projects, form their teams and pursue their best ideas.

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Nicolas Bierne Apr 17, 2023

Enjoy the reading of this new preprint of @Maurine_Hammel 's PhD work on these fantastic beasts that are marine transmissible cancers:
Marine transmissible cancer navigates urbanised waters, threatening to spillover
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.14.536605v1
@darwin #preprint #EcoEvo #TransCan #UrbanEvolution #MarineConnectivity