Chris Tape
@christophertape.bsky.social
Group Leader, UCL Cancer Institute.
Studying how different cell-types collaborate to drive cancer | http://tape-lab.com
Studying how different cell-types collaborate to drive cancer | http://tape-lab.com
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(1/N) Thrilled to share that our paper HiPoNet (High dimensional Point cloud Network) to be presented at NeurIPS 2025! HiPoNet treats an entire high-dimensional point cloud as a datapoint! It captures multi-scale geometry and topology of the cloud perform classification and regression tasks.
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
(1/N) Thrilled to share that our paper HiPoNet (High dimensional Point cloud Network) to be presented at NeurIPS 2025! HiPoNet treats an entire high-dimensional point cloud as a datapoint! It captures multi-scale geometry and topology of the cloud perform classification and regression tasks.
Paul Nurse describing the main job of a PI
(From ‘The Thinking Game’, 2024)
(From ‘The Thinking Game’, 2024)
October 31, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Paul Nurse describing the main job of a PI
(From ‘The Thinking Game’, 2024)
(From ‘The Thinking Game’, 2024)
Important new paper from @batllelab.bsky.social showing how the KRAS-G12D inhibitor (RMC-9945) triggers rapid stem cell switching in CRC.
This switch happens in just a few hours — similar to what we see with tumour cell responses to CAFs.
aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscov...
This switch happens in just a few hours — similar to what we see with tumour cell responses to CAFs.
aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscov...
October 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Important new paper from @batllelab.bsky.social showing how the KRAS-G12D inhibitor (RMC-9945) triggers rapid stem cell switching in CRC.
This switch happens in just a few hours — similar to what we see with tumour cell responses to CAFs.
aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscov...
This switch happens in just a few hours — similar to what we see with tumour cell responses to CAFs.
aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscov...
Excited to share our new paper: ‘Phenoscaping Reveals Multimodal γδ T-cell Cytotoxicity as a Strategy to Overcome Cancer Cell–Mediated Immunomodulation’ led by Callum Nattress in collab. with Jonathan Fisher lab (1/13)
aacrjournals.org/cancerres/ar...
aacrjournals.org/cancerres/ar...
October 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Excited to share our new paper: ‘Phenoscaping Reveals Multimodal γδ T-cell Cytotoxicity as a Strategy to Overcome Cancer Cell–Mediated Immunomodulation’ led by Callum Nattress in collab. with Jonathan Fisher lab (1/13)
aacrjournals.org/cancerres/ar...
aacrjournals.org/cancerres/ar...
Applications are now open for the @cruk-cityoflondon.bsky.social Black Leaders in Cancer PhD Programme.
If you are interested in our project ‘Reprogramming Plasticity in Colorectal Cancer’ feel free to get in touch!
www.colcc.ac.uk/2026-blic-ph...
If you are interested in our project ‘Reprogramming Plasticity in Colorectal Cancer’ feel free to get in touch!
www.colcc.ac.uk/2026-blic-ph...
October 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Applications are now open for the @cruk-cityoflondon.bsky.social Black Leaders in Cancer PhD Programme.
If you are interested in our project ‘Reprogramming Plasticity in Colorectal Cancer’ feel free to get in touch!
www.colcc.ac.uk/2026-blic-ph...
If you are interested in our project ‘Reprogramming Plasticity in Colorectal Cancer’ feel free to get in touch!
www.colcc.ac.uk/2026-blic-ph...
Excited to be in Essen for @helloeacr.bsky.social Goodbye Flat Biology 🧫
September 23, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Excited to be in Essen for @helloeacr.bsky.social Goodbye Flat Biology 🧫
A warm welcome to the newest member of the team: Lab-bubu
September 3, 2025 at 12:26 PM
A warm welcome to the newest member of the team: Lab-bubu
We are recruiting! Our lab is looking for a new mass cytometry technician to help study colorectal cancer organoid perturbation experiments at scale.
Please feel free to contact me with any questions!
Full job description and application details here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Please feel free to contact me with any questions!
Full job description and application details here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
August 7, 2025 at 7:24 AM
We are recruiting! Our lab is looking for a new mass cytometry technician to help study colorectal cancer organoid perturbation experiments at scale.
Please feel free to contact me with any questions!
Full job description and application details here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Please feel free to contact me with any questions!
Full job description and application details here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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🚨 PhD Position available in our lab 🚨 exploring the power of blood immune multi-omics to detect lung cancer years prior to clinical diagnosis in a unique cohort of >10,000 CT screened individuals.
✅ Wet & dry lab
✅ September 2025 enrolment
✅ UK tuition fees only
www.ucl.ac.uk/medical-scie...
✅ Wet & dry lab
✅ September 2025 enrolment
✅ UK tuition fees only
www.ucl.ac.uk/medical-scie...
Pre-Cancer Immunology
The Pre-Cancer Immunology Lab (James Reading Lab) is mapping pre-invasive T cell dynamics during carcinogenesis to detect and intercept cancer development.
www.ucl.ac.uk
August 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
🚨 PhD Position available in our lab 🚨 exploring the power of blood immune multi-omics to detect lung cancer years prior to clinical diagnosis in a unique cohort of >10,000 CT screened individuals.
✅ Wet & dry lab
✅ September 2025 enrolment
✅ UK tuition fees only
www.ucl.ac.uk/medical-scie...
✅ Wet & dry lab
✅ September 2025 enrolment
✅ UK tuition fees only
www.ucl.ac.uk/medical-scie...
Incredibly impressed by the student/postdoc run @bacell3d.bsky.social conference. Great talks, a vibrant community, and so well organised 👏
June 26, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Incredibly impressed by the student/postdoc run @bacell3d.bsky.social conference. Great talks, a vibrant community, and so well organised 👏
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Very excited to have Prof. Chris Tape (University College London, UK) “Single-cell Phenoscaping of Tumour Microenvironment Organoids @christophertape.bsky.social What makes the phenotype of a cell?
June 24, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Very excited to have Prof. Chris Tape (University College London, UK) “Single-cell Phenoscaping of Tumour Microenvironment Organoids @christophertape.bsky.social What makes the phenotype of a cell?
Congrats to Rhianna O’Sullivan for winning a poster prize at the UCL Cancer Institute conference! 👏
June 23, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Congrats to Rhianna O’Sullivan for winning a poster prize at the UCL Cancer Institute conference! 👏
Excited to be in Basel for BaCell3D @bacell3d.bsky.social
June 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Excited to be in Basel for BaCell3D @bacell3d.bsky.social
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🏆 UCL is ranked 9th globally in the 2026 QS World University Rankings for the third year in a row.
This marks our 14th year in the global top 10, reflecting the strength of our academic and employer reputation.
🔗 Learn more: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...
#QSWUR
This marks our 14th year in the global top 10, reflecting the strength of our academic and employer reputation.
🔗 Learn more: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...
#QSWUR
June 19, 2025 at 8:20 AM
🏆 UCL is ranked 9th globally in the 2026 QS World University Rankings for the third year in a row.
This marks our 14th year in the global top 10, reflecting the strength of our academic and employer reputation.
🔗 Learn more: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...
#QSWUR
This marks our 14th year in the global top 10, reflecting the strength of our academic and employer reputation.
🔗 Learn more: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...
#QSWUR
Excited to visit @nkinl.bsky.social today!
June 12, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Excited to visit @nkinl.bsky.social today!
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🧬 Excited to announce the 2nd Euro Cancer DepMap Symposium bringing together leading minds in functional genomics, cancer vulnerabilities, AI, CRISPR and anti-cancer target discovery.📍Join us in Milan for cutting-edge science, open discussion & collaboration. #EuroDepMap #CancerResearch #CRISPR
June 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🧬 Excited to announce the 2nd Euro Cancer DepMap Symposium bringing together leading minds in functional genomics, cancer vulnerabilities, AI, CRISPR and anti-cancer target discovery.📍Join us in Milan for cutting-edge science, open discussion & collaboration. #EuroDepMap #CancerResearch #CRISPR
2 weeks left to apply for our new fully funded postdoc position studying plasticity regulators in metastatic CRC!
We are recruiting! We're searching for a postdoctoral research fellow to study patient-specific regulators of plasticity in primary and metastatic CRC. Please reach out if you have any questions! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
June 10, 2025 at 5:32 AM
2 weeks left to apply for our new fully funded postdoc position studying plasticity regulators in metastatic CRC!
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Happy to share details of this meeting and the exciting line-up of speakers. Hope to see you there. Please re-post www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/5th...
May 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Happy to share details of this meeting and the exciting line-up of speakers. Hope to see you there. Please re-post www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/5th...
We are recruiting! We're searching for a postdoctoral research fellow to study patient-specific regulators of plasticity in primary and metastatic CRC. Please reach out if you have any questions! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
May 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
We are recruiting! We're searching for a postdoctoral research fellow to study patient-specific regulators of plasticity in primary and metastatic CRC. Please reach out if you have any questions! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Excited to arrive in Whistler for the @keystonesymposia.bsky.social on Organoids and Single Cells 🇨🇦 🐻
May 11, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Excited to arrive in Whistler for the @keystonesymposia.bsky.social on Organoids and Single Cells 🇨🇦 🐻
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"We’re going to find a way to kill these cells,” says
@christophertape.bsky.social “We won’t stop until we do.”
Loved working on this piece with Chris & his team - and with Sharon, who donated her bowel tumour to Chris's @cancerresearchuk.org -funded lab.
news.cancerresearchuk.org/2025/05/09/s...
@christophertape.bsky.social “We won’t stop until we do.”
Loved working on this piece with Chris & his team - and with Sharon, who donated her bowel tumour to Chris's @cancerresearchuk.org -funded lab.
news.cancerresearchuk.org/2025/05/09/s...
The mysterious stem cells that could hold the key to beating bowel cancer - Cancer Research UK - Cancer News
Using organoids, researchers have found that 'revival' stem cells could hold the key to why people's cancers respond differently to treatment
news.cancerresearchuk.org
May 9, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"We’re going to find a way to kill these cells,” says
@christophertape.bsky.social “We won’t stop until we do.”
Loved working on this piece with Chris & his team - and with Sharon, who donated her bowel tumour to Chris's @cancerresearchuk.org -funded lab.
news.cancerresearchuk.org/2025/05/09/s...
@christophertape.bsky.social “We won’t stop until we do.”
Loved working on this piece with Chris & his team - and with Sharon, who donated her bowel tumour to Chris's @cancerresearchuk.org -funded lab.
news.cancerresearchuk.org/2025/05/09/s...
Thanks to @cancerresearchuk.org for featuring our work on stem cell plasticity in CRC: news.cancerresearchuk.org/2025/05/09/s...
The mysterious stem cells that could hold the key to beating bowel cancer - Cancer Research UK - Cancer News
Using organoids, researchers have found that 'revival' stem cells could hold the key to why people's cancers respond differently to treatment
news.cancerresearchuk.org
May 9, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Thanks to @cancerresearchuk.org for featuring our work on stem cell plasticity in CRC: news.cancerresearchuk.org/2025/05/09/s...
Congrats to Corinne Molyneux for winning a poster prize at the UCL Cancer Domain Symposium! 👏
May 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Congrats to Corinne Molyneux for winning a poster prize at the UCL Cancer Domain Symposium! 👏
If you’re interested in GI organoids please join us for the first LION meeting at The Crick 09/06! 🦁
Inaugural LION (London gastroIntestinal Organoid Network) symposium @crick.ac.uk June 9th. Registration and details at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-gas.... #Organoids #intestine #IBD #CRC @christophertape.bsky.social @vivianlilab.bsky.social @graycamplab.bsky.social @paolodecoppi.bsky.social
London gastroIntestinal Organoid Network (LION)
Launch symposium
www.eventbrite.co.uk
April 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
If you’re interested in GI organoids please join us for the first LION meeting at The Crick 09/06! 🦁
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Inspiring plenary talk from Prof Mariam Jamal-Hanjani #AACR25 speaking about former City of London Centre trainee Dr Sonya Hessey work and long term collaborations! 🤩🤩 #CRUKfunded
April 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Inspiring plenary talk from Prof Mariam Jamal-Hanjani #AACR25 speaking about former City of London Centre trainee Dr Sonya Hessey work and long term collaborations! 🤩🤩 #CRUKfunded