Emma Champneys receives best talk in Computational and Quantitative Biology session at the Crick PhD Student Summer Symposium

UCL-Birkbeck MRC PhD student Emma presented her research at the 2026 Crick & Partner Universities PhD Student Summer Symposium, which brought together doctoral students across a wide range of disciplines. 

She presented her work investigating the dynamics of homologous recombination deficiency in breast cancer using spatial transcriptomics and tumour evolution inference. Emma was delighted to receive a prize for the best talk in her session, Computational and Quantitative Biology.

Link to the lab group: https://secrierlab.github.io/ 

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/emma-champneys