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Benjamin Schuster-Böckler

Associate Professor

I head the computational genomics group at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research.

The main focus of my group is to understand the causes and consequences of mutation rate heterogeneity. In previous work, I established that epigenetic marks in the form of histone modifications have a profound influence on the mutational landscape in cancer cells. More recently, my lab analysed the influence of different DNA modifications on mutability, and described how DNA replication changes the distribution of mutations in cancer genomes. This has important implications for our understanding of cancer development. For example, it allows us to identify new carcinogenic mechanisms that might be preventable.

We are also interested in developing novel genomic methods in the area of single-cell technology. For example, as part of ongoing collaboration we have created tools to assess the robustness of single-cell transcriptome measurements, and built tools to process epigenetic sequencing data using a brand-new, Oxford-developed technology called TAPS.

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