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Incredibly excited to share our paper ‘Somatic mutation rates scale with lifespan across mammals’ now published @Nature.
nature.com/articles/s4158…
An illustrated & updated tweetorial… [1/24]
Alex Cagan
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Alex Cagan
@ATJCagan
Researching somatic evolution at the University of Cambridge and Wellcome Sanger Institute. Also a scientific illustrator.
- As a scientist and an illustrator having our article featured on the cover of @Nature is a dream come true I've done an illustrated tweetorial, so this is the illustrators' tweetorial.
- The cavalry is coming. Scientists are developing vaccines, trialling treatments, tracking and tracing the spread of #covid19 with genome sequencing and phylogenetics. You can help them. Stay inside, slow the spread. Buy them time.
- Congratulations to Svante Pääbo, my PhD supervisor, for his #NobelPrize “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution” @MPI_EVA_Leipzig
- I am incredibly excited to share our preprint ‘Somatic mutation rates scale with lifespan across mammals’In this paper we provide an unprecedented description of somatic mutation across mammals. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… An illustrated tweetorial…[1/17]
- Thrilled to announce I am starting an Assistant Professorship at the University of Cambridge to study somatic evolution across the tree of life, with a focus on ageing, cancer and environmental monitoring. Exciting times ahead!
GIF - Thrilled to share our paper on the mutational landscape of human somatic and germline cells @Nature. We integrated histology and genomics to explore the genetic diversity that develops within our bodies as we age. nature.com/articles/s4158… An illustrated tweetorial… [1/15]
- Organising a conference/symposium/webinar and want the talks and speakers to be live illustrated? Drop me a line! atjcagan.squarespace.com/#/conferenceil…
- It was a privilege to do an illustration of @firefoxx66, researcher and developer of @nextstrain She’s using phylogenetics to track #COVIDー19 This vital work can help keep it under control. Scientists like Emma are the modern day Artemis, hunting viruses! nextstrain.org/ncov
- Thrilled to announce an illustrated book to celebrate the #25genomes project and @sangerinstitute 25th anniversary! The grandest illustration project I have ever done. Such an honour to work here as an artist and a scientist with such fantastic colleagues. #sciart @wellcometrust
- Celebrating all the Heroes across the world from different walks of life who are working tirelessly to fight #COVID19 While they are out there we can all do our part by staying inside to slow the spread #scicomm #SlowTheSpread #FlattenTheCurve
- Thrilled to finally be able to share our new preprint on the mutational landscape of human somatic and germline cells! #Panbodymap We integrated histology and genomics to reveal the genomic diversity that develops within our own bodies as we age biorxiv.org/content/10.110… [1/15]
- If you're organising a virtual meeting and think it could benefit from being live-illustrated get in touch atjcagan.squarespace.com/#/conferenceil… #scicomm #sciart
- Dance of the Genome Honoured to design the cover for the inaugural issue of @CellGenomics - a new #OpenAccess and #OpenScience research journal for pioneering #genetics and #genomics. Had a great time working on this one! cell.com/cell-genomics/…
