Dan Landau
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Dan Landau
@landau.bsky.social
Oncologist-scientist at Weill Cornell and New York genome center. Into somatic evolution, trees and words
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October 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Highlights:
- Immune cell clonal expansion & migration
- Mutational signatures change through life
- Driver acquisition, growth dynamics and impact on phenotype to enhance fitness
- CNVs in normal esophagus
- Massive selection of chr9q cnLOH with convergent acquisition multiple times through life
October 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Reposted by Dan Landau
If you want to deep dive in to immunology you could do worse than Gabriel's evolutionary landscaping

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Replaying germinal center evolution on a quantified affinity landscape
Darwinian evolution of immunoglobulin genes within germinal centers (GC) underlies the progressive increase in antibody affinity following antigen exposure. Whereas the mechanics of how competition be...
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September 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM