We are grateful to the Jean Shanks Foundation for their support of this lecture series.
2026 Future Lecture dates
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Wednesday 13 May, 09:00 - 10:00 (UK time) - Dr Bárbara Hernando (Spanish National Cancer Research Centre)
- Wednesday 16 September, 09:00 - 10:00 (UK time) - Professor Trevor Graham (ICR)
- Wednesday 14 October (13:00 - 14:00 UK time) - Dr Sarah Aitken (Yale University)
- Wednesday 11 November, 09:00 - 10:00 (UK time) - Dr David Moore (UCL)
- Wednesday 9 December, 09:00 - 10:00 (UK time) - Professor Prakash Ramachandran (University of Edinburgh)
Joining details will be updated as we work through the programme.
Upcoming Lecture
Date: Wednesday, 13 May 2026, 09:00 - 10:00 (UK time)
Joining Details for all Participants (Path Soc Members and Non-Members): Webinar Registration - Zoom link.
Speaker: Bárbara Hernando, PhD, is a La Caixa Junior Postdoctoral Leader in the Computational Oncology Group at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO).
Title: 'Harnessing chromosomal instability to inform cancer therapy'
Abstract:
Chromosomal instability (CIN) results in numerical and structural DNA changes across the genome and has been established as a major driver of the deadliest cancers. These difficult-to-treat tumours exhibit increased intratumoral heterogeneity limiting the efficacy of the state-of-the-art gene-based precision oncology. We have pioneered a computational framework that allows us to comprehensively evaluate the origin and extent of CIN in tumours via mutational signatures and demonstrated their ability to predict resistance to common chemotherapies in primary and metastatic tumours across different cancer types. Extending this approach to the single-cell level, we are now dissecting the mutational processes that shape tumour evolution, enabling us to anticipate future driver alterations before they emerge.
*This lecture will be recorded and available to view on our YouTube channel.
PathSoc YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=0F8H8Xz4Qqw
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Past Lectures & Recordings
Title: 'QuicDNA MAX'
Dr Sian Morgan BSc, MPhil, DipACC, FRCPath, a Consultant Clinical Scientist at All Wales Medical Genomics Service (AWMGS) and a Honorary Senior Research Fellow - Cardiff University.
Date: Wednesday, 15 April 2026, 09:00 - 10:00 (UK time)
We did not have permission to record this lecture.
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Title: 'Beyond histology; revising the classification of infant and TYA high-grade gliomas through molecular profiling'
Dr Matthew Clarke, Clinician Scientist and Consultant Paediatric Neuropathologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Institute of Cancer Research.
Date: Wednesday, 11 March 2026, 09:00 - 10:00 (UK time)
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Title: '"The little things are infinitely the most important": harnessing the power of biopsies in lung cancer'
Dr Jan von der Thüsen, MD PhD, is a Principal Investigator in the Department of Pathology and Clinical Bioinformatics, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Date: Wednesday, 11 February 2026, 09:00 - 10:00 (UK time)
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Title: "Mechanosensitive adhesion networks in cancer: linking the extracellular matrix to gene regulation"
Dr Adam Byron, PhD, is a Lecturer and group leader in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Manchester and a member of the Manchester Cell-Matrix Centre.
Date: Wednesday, 10 December 2025, 09:00 - 10:00 (UK time)
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Title: "Hepatobiliary carcinogenesis - from research to better diagnosis"
Professor Peter Schirmacher, is acting chairman of the German Society of Pathology, director of the Institute of Pathology at Heidelberg University Hospital, and president of the German Association for the Study of the Liver.
Date: Wednesday, 12 November 2025, 09:00 - 10:00 (UK time)
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Title: "The Transformative Impact of Molecular Pathology on Breast Cancer Care: Diagnostic Advances, Therapeutic Precision, and Future Directions"
Dr Maggie Cheang is a breast cancer researcher at The Institute of Cancer Research, London
Date: Wednesday, 15 October 2025, 09:30 - 10:30 (UK time)
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Title: "Haematopathology: Morphology, Molecules & Mechanisms"
Professor Ming-Qing Du is a Professor of Oncological Pathology and Honorary Consultant Molecular Pathologist in the Department of Pathology at the University of Cambridge
Date: Wednesday, 1 October 2025, 09:00 - 10:00 (UK time)
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Title: "Evolutionary nature of metastasis revealed through research autopsies"
Professor Mariam Jamal-Hanjani is a Clinician Scientist and Group Leader at the UCL Cancer Institute in London.
Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2025, 09:00 - 10:00 (UK time)
The lecture is no longer available for viewing.
Title: "Can AI help to reinforce breast cancer grading?"
Jeroen van der Laak is professor of computational Pathology at the department of Pathology of the Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, The Netherlands and guest professor at the Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV) in Linköping, Sweden.
Date: Wednesday, 16 April 2025, 09:00 - 10:00 (UK time)
The lecture is no longer available for viewing.
Title: "The tumor deposit story"
Iris Nagtegaal is Professor of Gastrointestinal Pathology since 2013 and theme leader of the research theme Tumors of the digestive tract.
Date: Wednesday, 19 March 2025, 09:00 - 10:00 (UK time)
The lecture is no longer available for viewing.
Title: "A spatiotemporal cancer cell trajectory underlies glioblastoma heterogeneity"
Dr Omer Ali Bayraktar, Group Leader, Cellular Genetics Programme at Wellcome Sanger Institute, United Kingdom
Date: Wednesday, 12 February 2025, 09:00 - 10:00 (UK time)
The lecture is no longer available for viewing.
Title: "Organoid modelling of the gastrointestinal epithelial barrier in GI diseases – Mechanisms of injury and repair"
Dr Mairi McLean is a clinical academic Clinical Reader and Deputy Head of Division, Division of Respiratory Medicine & Gastroenterology at the School of Medicine, and Associate Principal Investigator within the Division of Cell Signalling and Immunology at the School of Life Sciences, at the University of Dundee
Date: Wednesday 11 December 2024 from 09:00 - 10:00 (UK time)
Due to data sensitivity and unpublished data being presented, the lecture wasn't recorded.
Title: "At the intersection of Tumour Revolution and Pathology"
Dr Samra Turajlic, is a Chief Investigator of translational studies into melanoma and kidney cancer (TRACERx) and Group Leader at the Crick Cancer Dynamics Laboratory
Date: Wednesday 13 November 2024 from 09:00 - 10:00 (UK time)
The lecture is no longer available for viewing.
Title: "Cell context, mutation, microenvironment and gynaecologic cancer control"
Dr David Huntsman, Chew Wei Professor of Gynaecologic Oncology Professor, Departments of Pathology and Lab Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynaecology, UBC Director of OVCARE, Vancouver General Hospital, BC Cancer Agency and UBC Distinguished Scientist, Department of Molecular Oncology, BC Cancer Agency Research Centre
Date: Wednesday 16 October 2024 from 16:00 - 17:00 (UK time)
The lecture is no longer available for viewing.
Title: "Molecular subtyping in colorectal cancer; hype or hope"
Dr Philip Dunne is a Reader in Molecular Pathology, in the Patrick G Johnston Centre for Cancer Research at Queen’s University Belfast, and Group Leader at the CRUK Beatson Institute.
Date: Wednesday 18 September 2024 from 09:00 - 10:00 (UK time)
Title: "Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: molecular pathology & preclinical models of Pulmonary fibrosis including molecular profiling of patients"
Professor Gisli Jenkins is an NIHR Research Professor and holds the Margaret Turner-Warwick Chair of Thoracic Medicine at Imperial College London
Date: Wednesday 15 May 2024 from 09:00 - 10:00 (UK time)
The lecture is no longer available for viewing.
Title: "Lynch syndrome: Tumour Screening and Urogenital Surveillance"
Professor Sir John Burn is a Professor of Clinical Genetics at Translational and Clinical Research Institute
and leads the Cancer Prevention Programme research group at Newcastle University
Date: Wednesday 17 April 2024 from 09:00 - 10:00 (UK time)
The lecture is no longer available for viewing.
Title: "The Cell Biology of Developmental Tumours: Evidence from Childhood Brain Tumours"
Professor Tom Jacques is Paediatric Neuropathology at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and the Clinical Lead / Laboratory Director for the Department of Histopathology at Great Ormond Street Hospital
Date: Wednesday 20 March 2024 from 09:00 - 10:00 (UK time)
The lecture is no longer available for viewing.
Title: "Integrated Technologies For Improved Colorectal Polyp Surveillance"
Prof Joanne Edwards, Professor of Translational Cancer Pathology (Therapeutic Science Research) and Director of Education, School of Cancer Sciences, University of Glasgow
Date: Wednesday 14 February 2024 from 09:00 - 10:00 (UK time)
The lecture is no longer available for viewing.
Title: "CODA: 3D Multi-omic mapping of healthy tissues and tumors at single-cell resolution"
Dr. Wirtz directs the Johns Hopkins Physical Sciences-Oncology Center and co-directs the Cancer Nanotechnology Training Center, both National Cancer Institute-funded entities
Date: Wednesday 15 December 2023 from 15:00 -16:00 (UK time)
The lecture is no longer available for viewing.
Title: "Molecular stratification of ovarian carcinomas"
Prof. Simon Herrington, Professor of Molecular Cancer Pathology. Cancer Research UK Edinburgh Centre; MRC Institute of Genetics & Cancer.
Date: Wednesday 15 November 2023 from 09:00 -10:00 (UK time)
The lecture is no longer available for viewing.
Title: "Activating tumour reactive T cells for cancer immunotherapy? There may be a problem"
Prof. Christian Ottensmeier MD PhD FRCP is a Professor of Immuno-Oncology at of University of Liverpool, the Liverpool Head and Neck Center and Director for Clinical Research at Clatterbridge Cancer Center.
Date: Wednesday 18 October 2023 from 16:00-17:00 (UK time)
The lecture is no longer available for viewing.
Title: "An embryonic approach to uncover new mechanisms of melanoma progression"
Dr Kerrie Marie, School of Biological Sciences at University of Manchester
Date: Wednesday 20 September 2023 from 09:00-10:00 (UK time)
The lecture is no longer available for viewing.
Title: "The Molecular Classification of Endometrial Carcinoma"
Dr. Tjalling Bosse currently is an associate professor in the Department of Pathology, at the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) in the Netherlands.
Date: Wednesday 24 May 2023 from 09:00-10:00 (UK time)
The lecture is no longer available for viewing.
Title: "How we use AI and digital pathology to prognosticate cancer and to dissect the mechanisms driving cancer progression and treatment response"
Prof Håvard E. Danielsen is the Director and founder of the Institute for Cancer Genetics and Informatics (ICGI) at Oslo University Hospital (Norway) and a professor at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo.
Date: Wednesday 19 April 2023 from 09:00-10:00 (UK time)
Due to data sensitivity, the lecture wasn't recorded.
Title: "Computational Pathology: The Next Frontier in Cellular Pathology?"
Nasir Rajpoot is Professor of Computational Pathology and the founding Director of the Tissue Image
Analytics (TIA) Centre in the Computer Science department at the University of Warwick
Date: Wednesday 15 March 2023 from 09:00-10:00 (UK time)
The lecture is no longer available for viewing.
Title: “Stem cell adaptive phenotype in colorectal cancer”
Prof Simon Leedham, Professor of Molecular and Population Genetics and an Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the University of Oxford
Date: Wednesday 15 February 2023 from 09:00-10:00 (UK time)
The lecture is no longer available for viewing.
Title: “SPACE-ASSOCIATED LYMPHOMAS: A Heterogeneous Group of Old and New Entities”
Dr Judith Ferry, Director of Hematopathology and the first recipient of the Nancy Lee Harris, MD, Endowed Chair in Pathology at MGH, and Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School
Date: Wednesday 14 December 2022, 14.00-15.00 (UK Time)
The lecture is no longer available for viewing.
Title: “Extrachromosomal DNA amplifications in Cancer”.
Dr Raghav Sundar, Clinician-scientist specialising in gastrointestinal oncology, Consultant medical oncologist at the National University Cancer Institute, Singapore
Date: Wednesday 16 November 2022, 09.00-10.00 (UK Time)
The lecture is no longer available for viewing.
Title: “Extrachromosomal DNA amplifications in Cancer”
Prof Roel Verhaak, PhD, Professor, Florine Deschenes Roux Chair and Associate Director of Computional Biology, Jackson Laboratory for Genetic Medicine, Farmington, CT, USA
Date: Wednesday 19 October 2022, 14.00-15.00 (UK Time)
The lecture is no longer available for viewing.
Title: "Insights from Molecular Pathology Epidemiology studies of Gastrointestinal Neoplasia"
Prof Helen Coleman, Professor of Cancer Epidemiology, Centre for Public Health, Queen's University Belfast
Date: Wednesday 21 September 2022, 09.00-10.00 (UK Time)
The lecture is no longer available for viewing.
Title: "Gastric cancer pathology - recent advances"
Prof Fatima Carneiro, MD, PhD, University of Porto
Date: Wednesday 11 May 2022, 09.00-10.00 (UK Time)
The lecture is no longer available for viewing.
Titles: Dr Peter Bankhead: "QuPath: Making digital pathology open for everyone"
Dr Jakob Kather: "Predicting genetic alterations in solid tumors from pathology images with artificial intelligence"
Dr Peter Bankhead, University of Edinburgh & Prof Jakob Kather, TWTH University Hospital, Aachen
Date: Wednesday 13 April 2022, 09.00-10.00
The lecture is no longer available for viewing.
Title: "Pathology for precision medicine trials, SPIRIT-Path and beyond"
Dr Tim Kendall, University of Edinburgh
Date: Wednesday 16 March 2022, 09.00-10.00
The lecture is no longer available for viewing.
Title: "Exploring epidermal stem cell fate at single cell resolution"
Prof Fiona Watt, FRS FMedSci, Professor of Regenerative Medicine, King's College London
Date: Wednesday 16 February 2022, 09.00-10.00
The lecture is no longer available for viewing.
Title: “How did we get there? A tale of complex phenotypes and sequencing”
Prof Jorge Reis-Filho & Dr Britta Weigelt, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York
Date: Wednesday 15 December 2021, 12.00-13.00 (UK Time)
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Title: "Applying single-cell technologies in nephropathology"
Prof Menna Clatworthy, BSc (Hons) MBBCh, PhD, FRCP, FLSW, FMedSci, Cambridge
Date: Wednesday 17 November 2021, 09.00-10.00
The lecture is no longer available for viewing.
Title: "Mapping spatial heterogeneity in cancers to understand diverse disease outcomes"
Dr Anita Grigoriadis, Non-Clinical Deputy Head for the Breast Cancer Now Unit & Reader in Cancer Bioinfirmatics at Kings College London & Dr Lucy Yates, Clinical Career Development Fellow at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge
Date: Wednesday 13 October 2021, 09.00-10.00
The lecture is no longer available for viewing.
Title: "Exploring the Cancer Genome base-by-base with Saturation Genome Editing and CRISPR screening"
Dr David Adams, Experimental Cancer Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge
Date: Wednesday 15 September 2021, 09.00-10.00
This lecture is no longer available for viewing.
Title: "The Human Cell Atlas: next generation pathology"
Dr Sarah Teichmann, Head of Cellular Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge
Date: Wednesday 9 June 2021, 09.00-10.00
This lecture is no longer available for viewing.
Title: "Implementing TILs in breast cancer daily practice: how much evidence can we bear?"
Dr Roberto Salgado, Antwerp, Belgium,
Date: Wednesday 12 May 2021, 09.00-10.00
This lecture is no longer available for viewing.
Title: "Why are cancer genes tissue-specific? Puzzles and insights from inherited colorectal cancer"
Prof Ian Tomlinson, University of Edinburgh
Date: Wednesday 14 April 2021, 09.00-10.00
This lecture is no longer available for viewing.
Title: "Understanding organisation of the breast tumour microenvironment by high-dimensional imaging"
Dr Raza Ali, Lead, Systems Cancer Pathology Group, Breast Cancer, CRUK Cambridge Institute
Date: Wednesday 10 March 2021, 09.00-10.00
This lecture is no longer available for viewing.
Title: "From digital pathology to somatic mutations"
Dr Moritz Gerstung, Research Group Leader, European Molecular Pathology Laboratory-European Bioinformatics Institute and Dr Luiza Moore, Jean Shanks/Pathological Society Intermediate Research Fellow at The Wellcome Sanger Institute and Consultant Histopathologist, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge
Date: Wednesday 17 February 2021, 09.00-10.00
This lecture is no longer available for viewing.