Project description
Gene expression evolution in cancer cells
Cancer development is an evolutionary process where tumour cells accumulate changes that drive disease progression and treatment resistance. Understanding how gene expression evolves across individual cancer cell lineages and what drives these changes is essential for deciphering tumour adaptation. Advanced single-cell technologies now make it possible to track these dynamics at unprecedented resolution. However, there is a lack of robust statistical frameworks to interpret such data. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the PhyloCELL-EXP project develops Bayesian phylogenetic models to reconstruct gene expression changes along cancer cell lineages, linking them to genetic and environmental factors. These tools will be applied to real multi-omics datasets, setting new standards in computational tumour evolution research.
Objective
The PhyloCELL-EXP project is dedicated to developing and implementing robust statistical models to understand the evolutionary dynamics of gene expression in single-cell cancer lineages. We will leverage advanced Bayesian phylogenetic frameworks such as BEAST2 to systematically identify fast evolving cell lineages, reconstruct gene expression changes along cell phylogenies, and link these changes to both genetic and micro-environmental factors. Our methodological approaches will include algorithms for detecting shifts in evolutionary rates, and Brownian Motion and Ornstein-Uhlenbeck models for gene expression, that are scalable to handle thousands of genes and hundreds of cells. By making use of real multi-omics cancer datasets, PhyloCELL-EXP’s quantitative models will enable genetic inheritance and plasticity in cancer adaptation and progression to be characterized, setting new standards in statistical and computational tumor evolution research.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
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36310 VIGO PONTEVEDRA
Spain
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