Joachim Weischenfeldt

@jweischenfeldt.bsky.social

Research group leader and professor at University of Copenhagen and RIgshospitalet. Research in cancer genomics/genetics, structural variants, mutational processes and clonal evolution

1/ NEW PAPER 🎉 🧵 We mapped the mutational processes shaping 959 prostate cancer genomes from the Pan Prostate Cancer Group (PPCG), integrating SBS, ID, CX and complex SV signatures. Eight footprints account for the processes in 85% of cases www.nature.com/articles/s41... @nature.com

Integrated signatures define mutational processes in prostate cancer - Nature

Eight integrated mutational footprints collectively explain the mutational processes in 85% of primary prostate cancer genomes.

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Back-to-back: Integrating single-nuclei RNA-seq and whole-genome sequencing, @joachimwei.bsky.social and his team show how prostate cancer metastasis is shaped by plasticity-driven convergence alongside ongoing clonal evolution, with distinct clones adopting shared transcriptional trajectories.

Clonal evolution and transcriptional plasticity shape metastatic dissemination routes in prostate cancer - Nature Communications

The impact of tumour heterogeneity on metastatic potential in prostate cancer remains poorly understood. Here, the analysis of single nuclei RNA sequencing and whole-genome sequencing from samples fro...

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Heads up: ignore samtools dot org, similarly minimap2 dot com and likely others. It's owned by a known phishing site and while the binaries they offer look valid currently (but note they may be serving us different binaries to others), that could change. Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned

Almost all grant-review meetings under Trump 2.0 remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget. https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4

Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order

The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.

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“I’ve spent over five decades as a scientist in academia & the federal government, including as director of the National Institutes of Health. Never before have I seen my profession so politicized as it is now under the Trump administration” #AcademicSky 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

Opinion | American Science is Under Attack (Gift Article)

The Trump administration hobbles research and endangers the public health.

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