Sophia Belkhir
@sophiabelkhir.bsky.social
PhD student in the Transmissible Cancer Group, University of Cambridge. Cancer and pathogens genomics, ecology, evolution 🧬💻
PhD opportunity in the @transmissiblcancer.bsky.social group, to study methylation in mammalian transmissible cancers - please spread the word! Link with details on the project and how to apply:
www.tcg.vet.cam.ac.uk/news/phd-opp...
www.tcg.vet.cam.ac.uk/news/phd-opp...
PhD opportunity with the Transmissible Cancer Group | Transmissible Cancer Group
The Transmissible Cancer Group is now recruiting a PhD student for an exciting new project investigating the long-term stability of DNA methylation in mammalian transmissible cancers.
www.tcg.vet.cam.ac.uk
October 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
PhD opportunity in the @transmissiblcancer.bsky.social group, to study methylation in mammalian transmissible cancers - please spread the word! Link with details on the project and how to apply:
www.tcg.vet.cam.ac.uk/news/phd-opp...
www.tcg.vet.cam.ac.uk/news/phd-opp...
Reposted by Sophia Belkhir
Sujet de stage M2 sur la "dock mussel", cet écotype de moules hybrides qui habite dans les ports. L'objectif est de tester si la dock mussel s’est adaptée grâce à sa variance génétique d’admixture ou si l’admixture n’est que le corolaire du contact secondaire entre les deux espèces parentales.
September 17, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Sujet de stage M2 sur la "dock mussel", cet écotype de moules hybrides qui habite dans les ports. L'objectif est de tester si la dock mussel s’est adaptée grâce à sa variance génétique d’admixture ou si l’admixture n’est que le corolaire du contact secondaire entre les deux espèces parentales.
Reposted by Sophia Belkhir
Now @sophiabelkhir.bsky.social presents her latest data on transmissible cancer in Tasmanian devils, including evidence of mitochondrial DNA transfer from the host to the tumour lineage #ESEB2025
August 22, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Now @sophiabelkhir.bsky.social presents her latest data on transmissible cancer in Tasmanian devils, including evidence of mitochondrial DNA transfer from the host to the tumour lineage #ESEB2025
If you are at #ESEB2025 and want to learn more about Tasmanian Devils and/or transmissible cancers, I'll be presenting some of my work on those cute animals and their fascinating disease Friday at 11:30 in room 122+123!
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August 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
If you are at #ESEB2025 and want to learn more about Tasmanian Devils and/or transmissible cancers, I'll be presenting some of my work on those cute animals and their fascinating disease Friday at 11:30 in room 122+123!
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#PostDoc in #Montpellier on mussel transmissible cancers #TransCan These weird cancers have undergone genome doublings and aneuploidisation You will play with PacBio and Nanopore data Join the #HyperCan team in a joyfull environment. #MarEvol #PopGen #MusselsAreCool 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:
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
April 14, 2025 at 12:17 PM
#PostDoc in #Montpellier on mussel transmissible cancers #TransCan These weird cancers have undergone genome doublings and aneuploidisation You will play with PacBio and Nanopore data Join the #HyperCan team in a joyfull environment. #MarEvol #PopGen #MusselsAreCool euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/333894
New exciting paper from the team! Horizontal gene transfer from host to cancer discovered in CTVT, a transmissible cancer lineage that has been spreading in dogs for thousands of years 🧬
The canine transmissible venereal tumour is an ancient cancer that spreads between dogs during mating. In our new paper we show that this cancer has undergone horizontal gene transfer, and has acquired DNA from its host. Read all about it here! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
April 24, 2025 at 12:16 PM
New exciting paper from the team! Horizontal gene transfer from host to cancer discovered in CTVT, a transmissible cancer lineage that has been spreading in dogs for thousands of years 🧬