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Jamie trained as a theoretical physicist at the Cavendish laboratory, University of Cambridge with Eugene Terentjev studying the statistical physics of polymers. He moved to Stanford University in 2012 as a postdoctoral scholar working on the dynamics of clonal evolution with Daniel Fisher, Sasha Levy, Dmitri Petrov, and Gavin Sherlock. He joined the CRUK Cambridge Centre Early Detection program in July 2017 and was awarded the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship in September 2019 to fund his group's research. His research interests lie in quantitatively understanding somatic evolution in human tissues to aid in cancer detection. The Blundell lab is focused on developing a quantitative understanding of somatic evolution in tissues that could detect cancer at its earliest stages. His work aims to understand how mutant clones arise, expand, and compete in tissues as they age. By focusing predominantly on blood, he uses novel genetic lineage tracking tools and deep sequencing of longitudinal samples to identify mutant clones that are under strong positive selection. These clones are implicated in early cancer, making them candidates for improved cancer detection.
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