Laboratory for breast cancer metastasis. Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, UC Irvine

Irvine, CA
Great time so far at the Fusion #CancerImmuno conference in the beautiful backdrop of Portugal 🇵🇹
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Why is multi-organ #metastasis so hard to treat? Is it organ ("soil")-specific or is there a #systemic program we’ve missed? 🚨 Our new preprint on @biorxiv_cancer reveals a universal, targetable niche conserved across the body. biorxiv.org/content/10.64898… 🧵👇
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Immensely grateful of this team effort! Thanks to @DLawsonlab & @KessenbrockLab fellows, collaborators at @UCIrvineHealth @UCIMedSchool @UCIrvine @CCBS_UCI, @masrilab, @cholsoon_jang, support from @AvHStiftung; @MetastasisRS, @ASEICAnews; and metastatic breast cancer #patients.
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Devon Lawson retweeted
MD Anderson researchers developed a new single-cell DNA and RNA sequencing technology to identify ancestral breast cancer cells. How this can help gain understanding on why some breast cancers are more aggressive than others: spr.ly/6012A8cXg @nicholas_navin #EndCancer
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Devon Lawson retweeted
Excited to share the preprint of my doctoral work investigating the role of placental development gene PHLDA2 in breast cancer metastasis @DLawsonlab
PHLDA2 promotes breast cancer metastasis by co-opting a developmental program for placental vascular remodeling biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… #biorxiv_cancer
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Check out our new paper identifying the developmental gene PHLDA2 as a robust driver of breast cancer metastasis! Thanks to @PHalasPhD @hannysavage @_DennisMa @KessenbrockLab for all their hard work, and support from @AmericanCancer, @theNCI, & Team Michelle. @UCIMedSchool
PHLDA2 promotes breast cancer metastasis by co-opting a developmental program for placental vascular remodeling biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… #biorxiv_cancer
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PHLDA2 is an imprinted gene expressed by trophoblasts that induce vascular remodeling during placental development. Our study shows that increased expression of PHLDA2 through hypomethylation promotes metastasis by ectopic expression of this program for vascular remodeling.
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So proud of our lab for attending the Stand up for Science rally in Los Angeles yesterday. You will make a difference ❤️ @NafPascal @isam_adam1 @hannysavage @KessenbrockLab @UCIrvine
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Great talk by postdoc @JInsuaRodriguez at the UCI Institute for Immunology annual symposium, describing his work on the role of metastasis associated macrophages in promoting systemic metastasis through immune suppression. @KessenbrockLab @UCIMedSchool
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New paper from our group in @Nature by @YiyunLin_YL @junkewang @KaileWang and team reporting the unexpected discovery of aneuploid epithelial cells (3%) in normal breast tissues from healthy women raising the question of when is cancer really cancer? nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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I’m teaching a class on single cell omics in cancer. What would you pick as some of the most breakthrough discoveries in cancer using single cell tools to date? 😉
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We are only one month away from the @GordonConf GRC+GRS in Single-Cell Cancer Biology! We have a fantastic program lined up! A few spots left. Register now! 🔥 GRS: June 8-9 (early career)🔥 grc.org/single-cell-cancer-b… 🔥 GRC: June 9-14 (main conference) 🔥 grc.org/single-cell-cancer-b…
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Congrats to Paige Halas @FuturePHPhD for being selected as a finalist to compete in UCI’s Grand Slam championship! She did an outstanding job in her elevator pitch (3min!) describing her work on how specific genes promote metastasis to lay audiences!#UCIGrandSlam @UCIMedSchool
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Congrats to Katrina and Aaron on a beautiful cover image! 5 color immunofluorescence using CODEX shows that pro-inflammatory microglia infiltrate growing metastatic lesions in the brain.
🎄Our last issue for 2023 is live! Cover: #tumor suppressive #microglia 👉🏽Comments on #embryomodels and #CellDeath 👉🏾🔬on: #BreastCancer #BoneMarrow #SkeletalMuscle #NucleotideMetabolism #SenescentCells #pyroptosis & more! 👉🏼Method: #epigenome profiling nature.com/ncb/volumes/25/is…
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💫NEW: @DLawsonlab & co identify and characterize a #tumour-suppressive role for #microglia that mediates a pro-inflammatory response to restrict brain #metastasis in #BreastCancer. #CancerResearch rdcu.be/dr33v nature.com/articles/s41556-0…
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Check out our new single cell datasets! We posted interactive UMAPs on our lab website lawsonlab.org, from our recent paper in @NatureCellBio where we found that microglia promote anti-tumor immunity and suppress brain metastasis. Check out expression of your fav genes!
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scRNAseq analysis showed that microglia mount a pro-inflammatory response to metastatic infiltration. GEM mice lacking microglia show increased metastasis, decreased survival and reduced natural killer and T cell responses that are critical to suppress tumor outgrowth in the CNS.
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Congrats to first authors Katrina Evans, Kerrigan Blake, Aaron Longworth and coauthors @JInsuaRodriguez @_DennisMa @graceah9 @VillaltaLab @BlurtonJonesLab @CPridans for >6yrs of hard work, and @ACS_Research & @theNCI for critical funding.
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