Columbia - Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics

Meet the incredible interns in our summer research program! Throughout the summer, they'll be sharing insights about their work in the lab and their interests outside of it on all our social media platforms. Read here: bit.ly/SRPQA2025

The IICD SRP is wrapping up soon! Yesterday, our interns presented their research at the Columbia CUPP Symposium. Huge thanks for organizing an incredible event! cc: @shi_lingting @elhamazizi @mssanjavickovic @khanh_n_dinh @DarcyPeterka @Genevera_Allen @joselmcfaline @soobeomlee

The Tavaré lab gathered for a special farewell dinner to celebrate the Alliance Program interns. ✨ Thank you for spending your summer with IICD, we’re so proud of all you’ve accomplished and excited for what’s next! ✨ #AllianceProgram #UndergraduateResearch #ColumbiaUniversity

I’ve been very lucky to mentor outstanding undergraduates for three consecutive years through the IICD @Cancer_dynamics Summer Research Program (SRP). It’s been incredibly rewarding to watch them grow into young scientists, support one another, and form lasting friendships.

IICD researchers Andrew Blumberg and Anne van Delft recently published "A statistical framework for analyzing shape in a time series" in the Annals of Statistics. Read the full paper: bit.ly/453uzeO #Statistics #ShapeAnalysis #DataScience @columbiacancer @ColumbiaCompSci

Welcome to IICD, Tina Giorgadze! 👋 A PhD candidate in Statistics, Tina is mentored by Simon Tavaré. Her research explores statistical methods for inferring copy number variation from sequencing data and tumor heterogeneity modeling. We’re thrilled to have her on board! #IICD

Our SRP and @AllianceProg interns had an inspiring day touring the microscopy facility @ZuckermanBrain with IICD associate member @DarcyPeterka and learning more about our serial two-photon tomography system! #CancerResearch #SummerInternship

Just published in @Nature! "Ongoing genome doubling shapes evolvability and immunity in ovarian cancer" — a major collaboration featuring IICD's @khanh_n_dinh and Simon Tavaré alongside @SohrabShah, @ivazquezgarcia, and colleagues. Read here: bit.ly/3TK79G0

The SRP and @ColumbiaMath interns enjoyed an engaging seminar led by Simon Tavaré yesterday. Thank you, Dr. Tavaré, for inspiring the next generation of scientists! 🧬#SRP2025 #CancerResearch #IICDLeadership

Last month’s publications span cancer biology, immunology, gene regulation, and more. Featuring work published in Nature Communications, Bioinformatics, arXiv, and bioRxiv. Swipe to see the full list ➡️ #IICDResearch #Genomics #CancerResearch #Bioinformatics

Thank you to all attendees, speakers, instructors, TAs and IICD staff for another successful workshop!

Welcome William Milligan to IICD! 👋🏽 A Postdoctoral Research Scientist in @Columbia_Bio, William uses genomic data & mathematical modeling to study what drives germline and somatic mutagenesis. Thrilled to have him on the team! #CancerResearch #IICD

📰 The July edition of our IICD newsletter is here! Catch up on summer research, recent awards, new team members, and exciting publications. Read it now 👉 bit.ly/3IdtWaN

Had a great time presenting our work on using integration/OT to capture plasticity! Thanks again to the organizers for the invitation to contribute to this awesome workshop🎉

That’s a wrap on the second 2025 IICD Intensive Workshop! Thank you to all our incredible participants, speakers, and organizers for a week full of learning, collaboration, and new ideas in probabilistic data integration, spatial technologies, and optimal transport. #IICDWorkshop

📣 Meet our newest postdoc in the Tavaré lab, Dr. Ren-Yi Wang! His research uses stochastic modeling and differential equations to study cancer dynamics and other complex biological systems. #IICDColumbia #CancerDynamics #PostdocLife