PhD student Lucy Barton wins Best Poster Award for thinking out of the box
Congratulations to Lucy Barton, who has won Best Poster Award at the Pan Prostate Cancer Group meeting in Copenhagen last week.
Lucy, a PhD student in the Translational Oncogenomics group led by Rob Bristow, presented her poster at the closed meeting organised by the Pan Prostate Cancer Group. The PPCG is a global consortium set up by scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research and The University of East Anglia to analyse genetic data from thousands of prostate cancer samples across nine countries, with the aim to make breakthrough advances in the treatment of this disease.
The focus of Lucy’s PhD project is chromosome 8q gains and prostate cancer aggression. Prostate cancer is largely driven by copy number changes and chromosome 8q is one of the most amplified chromosome segments in advanced metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer. Amplification of Chr8q, and therefore subsequent amplification of the c-MYC oncogene, is thought to be responsible for driving disease aggression.
Lucy has been characterising gains at chromosome 8q within the Pan Prostate Cancer Group cohort and assessing their impact on MYC expression.
It was an amazing experience to present my work to some of the world leaders in prostate cancer research! I’m very grateful for the recognition, but also the great feedback and advice that will help me take my PhD project to the next level.
Lucy Barton
PhD Student, Translational Oncogenomics
The judges at the meeting who considered Lucy’s excellent poster commended her on thinking out of the box for alternative explanations for 8q and aggression behind c-Myc.
Lucy, now in her second year, is progressing well with her project. She gave a fantastic talk at the recent Manchester Institute Colloquium that attracted many interesting questions from the audience.
Well done Lucy!