Thanks Communications Biology for the opportunity!

Optimizing germline testing in #prostatecancer is a major need as universal screening is not recommended/funded in EU and other countries. However, the available prediction tools for germline BRCA1/2 Mutations underperform in PC. euoncology.europeanurology.com/article/S2588-…

📚 "Reading often, reading voraciously, and reading material outside of one’s immediate field of research is the best way to prepare for any future opportunity." - Evan Warner, graduate student. Read more advice from scientists. #PhDChat #AcademicTwitter bit.ly/2ySqATC

A PhD is about learning how to learn. The research you want to be doing 20 years from now probably doesn’t even exist yet, so what you really need to gain in grad school is the ability to dive into a new area, learn, and develop mastery.#PhDchat

Thank you to Equinox West Georgia for our Movember team's MOVE cycling class: The Pursuit by Equinox

Our latest, led by Elie Ritch @cherberts1 & Simon Fu, dissecting mismatch repair defective metastatic PCa via plasma cfDNA targeted and whole exome sequencing – published in Clinical Cancer Research: bit.ly/35kaC30 1/6

Researchers in Alex Wyatt's (Alex Wyatt) lab at the Vancouver Prostate Centre have shown that mismatch repair-defective metastatic #ProstateCancer can be identified and characterized using plasma circulating tumour DNA. Elie Ritch @cherberts1 bit.ly/2YegXdJ

Thanks to our team captain Evan Warner and to everyone who joined and donated to our team, raising over $6,000 for Movember Canada - special kudos to Dr. Michael Cox & Barb Cox for raising over half of that; the spin class organized by Barb raised $1,750

Look out for 3 of my PhD students presenting posters at AACR Liquid Biopsy conf this week #AACRLB20. Congrats to Evan Warner for his invited talk on DNA repair gene alterations in prostate cancer ctDNA! Evan Warner @JackVWBacon @cherberts1

Privilege to collaborate with the visionary Piet Ost to learn more about the evolution of de novo M1 prostate cancer. Amazing few days of data exchange between our students. Team science ftw

Congratulations to Elie Ritch & Evan Warner of Dr Wyatt's lab on receiving CIHR Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship Doctoral Awards prostatecentre.com/news/two-vpc-t…

Social isolation isn't gonna stop the Wyatt lab team from supporting #PlaidforDad 😷 Vancouver Prostate Centre Alex Wyatt

Our paper on targeting ATM loss preclinical #prostatecancer models Antje Neeb Nicolás Herranz Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO) Vall d'Hebron The ICR PCF Science Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII) Fundación ”la Caixa” europeanurology.com/article/S0302-…

Our latest on clinical-genomic features of BRCA2, ATM, CDK12 defects in met PCa. All using ctDNA – implications for clinical roll-out! Mammoth lift from University of British Columbia PhD students Evan Warner @cherberts1 and team Vancouver Prostate Centre and beyond. Online Clinical Cancer Research: bit.ly/3s23GDC 1/5

Our Nature Communications paper on metastatic #BladderCancer: rdcu.be/cdgGo. We benchmark plasma ctDNA against tissue (mostly archival primary). Credit to University of British Columbia PhD student Gillian Vandekerkhove & Dr. Eigl BC Cancer, for leading a team of generous collaborators. Short thread 👇1/7

New work from Evan Warner (Evan Warner) and Cameron Herberts (@cherberts1) at Vancouver Prostate Centre highlights the use of liquid biopsy technology to accurately identify DNA repair defects in #ProstateCancer without the need for an invasive tissue biopsy. 🧬 bit.ly/3psxRCe

How does mCRPC evolve during AR targeted therapy? Here’s our study of genomic changes in ctDNA during a ph2 trial of sequential AR inhibitors in 202 patients. Published in Clinical Cancer Research clincancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/early/…. Short thread 👇

Prof Deonandan was asked by a student journalist what he would say to the 20% of polled uOttawa students who complain that our campus's vaccine requirements are an "infringement on their rights of free movement." His response:

Congratulations to Evan Warner for a successful UBC PhD defense! He's off to Boreal Genomics to continue trailblazing ctDNA R&D. He leaves behind a huge gap in our lab... Will be v missed. Thanks also to the examiners for generously donating their time +++

Our latest study with Piet Ost, of whole prostates, lymph nodes, and ctDNA at initial diagnosis in de novo metastatic prostate cancer (distant mets) is out in Nature Cancer: rdcu.be/du8Tu. 1/n thread 👇