CMMC: Thomas, Roman - assoc. RG 22

Abstract

Our Lab Mission is to understand the impact of somatic genetic alterations in cancer cells on the highly complex regulatory network of signaling pathways.

To address these questions we take advantage of a wide range of genetic, molecular and genomic techniques as well as biostatistics and computational biology tools. Our group is composed of scientists with various background including biologists, clinicians and physicist to study functional, cell biology apsects of cancer genomics towards novel drug development.

Publications 2021

Bebber CM, Thomas ES, Stroh J, Chen Z, Androulidaki A, Schmitt A, Hohne MN, Stuker L, de Padua Alves C, Khonsari A, Dammert MA, Parmaksiz F, Tumbrink HL, Beleggia F, Sos ML, Riemer J, George J, Brodesser S, Thomas RK, Reinhardt HC, and von Karstedt S (2021). Ferroptosis response segregates small cell lung cancer (SCLC) neuroendocrine subtypes. Nat Commun12, 2048. doi:10.1038/s41467-021-22336-4.

Bragelmann J, Lorenz C, Borchmann S, Nishii K, Wegner J, Meder L, Ostendorp J, Ast DF, Heimsoeth A, Nakasuka T, Hirabae A, Okawa S, Dammert MA, Plenker D, Klein S, Lohneis P, Gu J, Godfrey LK, Forster J, Trajkovic-Arsic M, Zillinger T, Haarmann M, Quaas A, Lennartz S, Schmiel M, D'Rozario J, Thomas ES, Li H, Schmitt CA, George J, Thomas RK, von Karstedt S, Hartmann G, Buttner R,Ullrich RT, Siveke JT, Ohashi K, Schlee M, and Sos ML (2021). MAPK-pathway inhibition mediates inflammatory reprogramming and sensitizes tumors to targeted activation of innate immunity sensor RIG-I. Nat Commun12, 5505. doi:10.1038/s41467-021-25728-8.

Rosswog C, Bartenhagen C, Welte A, Kahlert Y, Hemstedt N, Lorenz W, Cartolano M, Ackermann S, Perner S, Vogel W, Altmuller J, Nurnberg P, Hertwig F, Gohring G, Lilienweiss E, Stutz AM, Korbel JO, Thomas RK, Peifer M, and Fischer M (2021). Chromothripsis followed by circular recombination drives oncogene amplification in human cancer. Nat Genet53, 1673-1685. doi:10.1038/s41588-021-00951-7.

Schaufler D, Ast DF, Tumbrink HL, Abedpour N, Maas L, Schwabe AE, Spille I, Lennartz S, Fassunke J, Aldea M, Besse B, Planchard D, Nogova L, Michels S, Kobe C, Persigehl T, Westphal T, Koleczko S, Fischer R, Weber JP, Altmuller J, Thomas RK, Merkelbach-Bruse S, Gautschi O, Mezquita L, Buttner R, Wolf J, Peifer M, Bragelmann J, Scheffler M, and Sos ML (2021). Clonal dynamics of BRAF-driven drug resistance in EGFR-mutant lung cancer. NPJ Precis Oncol5, 102. doi:10.1038/s41698-021-00241-9.