Sven Nelander – Characterization of brain tumours using systems biology
Our team is investigating cancers of the nervous system in adults and children. The goal is to understand the principles that govern these cancers' growth and to discover new treatments. We are also interested in fundamental, systems biology aspects of cancer cell plasticity.
The team members have different expertise, ranging from medicine and biotechnology to mathematics and AI. Our research approach is based on a strong integration of patient-specific experimental models, state-of-the-art molecular biology, and large-scale computation. Focusing on nervous systems cancers, the interdisciplinary methodology that we are developing can also be of great value in other areas of oncology.
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Our team has a wide range of collaborations in both brain tumour biology, systems biology and computational biology. We welcome applications at all levels.
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Publications
Lineage specification in glioblastoma is regulated by METTL7B
Part of Cell Reports, 2024
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Reconstructing the regulatory programs underlying the phenotypic plasticity of neural cancers
Part of Nature Communications, 2024
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Inference of glioblastoma migration and proliferation rates using single time-point images
Part of Communications Biology, 2023
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Live Detection of Neural Progenitors and Glioblastoma Cells by an Oligothiophene Derivative
Part of ACS Applied Bio Materials, p. 3790-3797, 2023
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Autocrine signaling can explain the emergence of Allee effects in cancer cell populations
Part of PloS Computational Biology, 2022
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Fast and accurate gene regulatory network inference by normalized least squares regression
Part of Bioinformatics, p. 2263-2268, 2022
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Part of eLIFE, 2022
- DOI for Global hypo-methylation in a proportion of glioblastoma enriched for an astrocytic signature is associated with increased invasion and altered immune landscape
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Knowledge of the perturbation design is essential for accurate gene regulatory network inference
Part of Scientific Reports, 2022
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Part of Cancer Research Communications, p. 182-201, 2022
- DOI for MYCMI-7: A Small MYC-Binding Compound that Inhibits MYC: MAX Interaction and Tumor Growth in a MYC-Dependent Manner
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Part of Frontiers in Genetics, 2022
- DOI for Optimal Sparsity Selection Based on an Information Criterion for Accurate Gene Regulatory Network Inference
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Part of Nature Communications, 2021
- DOI for Comparative epigenetic analysis of tumour initiating cells and syngeneic EPSC-derived neural stem cells in glioblastoma
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Inferring the experimental design for accurate gene regulatory network inference
Part of Bioinformatics, p. 3553-3559, 2021
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Modeling glioblastoma heterogeneity as a dynamic network of cell states
Part of Molecular Systems Biology, 2021
Modeling glioblastoma heterogeneity as a dynamic network of cell states
Part of Molecular Systems Biology, 2021
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Part of eLIFE, 2021
- DOI for NF1 regulates mesenchymal gliblastoma plasticity and aggressiveness through the AP-1 transcription factor FOSL1
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p53-Mediated Radiosensitization of 177Lu-DOTATATE in Neuroblastoma Tumor Spheroids
Part of Biomolecules, 2021
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Real-time evaluation of glioblastoma growth in patient-specific zebrafish xenografts
Part of Neuro-Oncology, p. 726-738, 2021
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Part of PLOS ONE, 2021
- DOI for Single-cell RNAseq and longitudinal proteomic analysis of a novel semi-spontaneous urothelial cancer model reveals tumor cell heterogeneity and pretumoral urine protein alterations
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A Patient-Derived Cell Atlas Informs Precision Targeting of Glioblastoma
Part of Cell Reports, 2020
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Astrocytes enhance glioblastoma growth.
Part of Glia, p. 316-327, 2020
Part of Molecular Cancer Research, p. 981-991, 2020
Part of Molecular Cancer Research, p. 1522-1533, 2020
Integrative discovery of treatments for high-risk neuroblastoma
Part of Nature Communications, 2020
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Part of Brain Communications, 2020
- DOI for Monotherapy efficacy of blood-brain barrier permeable small molecule reactivators of protein phosphatase 2A in glioblastoma
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Uncovering cancer gene regulation by accurate regulatory network inference from uninformative data
Part of npj Systems Biology and Applications, 2020
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Part of Bioinformatics, p. 3357-3364, 2019
- DOI for Batch-normalization of cerebellar and medulloblastoma gene expression datasets utilizing empirically defined negative control genes
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BET and Aurora Kinase A inhibitors synergize against MYCN-positive human glioblastoma cells
Part of Cell Death and Disease, 2019
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Part of Oncoimmunology, 2019
- DOI for Human Mesenchymal glioblastomas are characterized by an increased immune cell presence compared to Proneural and Classical tumors
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Increasing the accuracy of glioblastoma subtypes: Factoring in the tumor's cell of origin
Part of Molecular & Cellular Oncology, 2019
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Part of Cancers, 2019
- DOI for Integrin alpha 10, a Novel Therapeutic Target in Glioblastoma, Regulates Cell Migration, Proliferation, and Survival
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Part of Journal of Pathology, p. 228-240, 2019
Image-Based Detection of Patient-Specific Drug-Induced Cell-Cycle Effects in Glioblastoma
Part of SLAS Discovery, p. 1030-1039, 2018
Part of Neuro-Oncology, p. 1080-1091, 2018
- DOI for Primary glioblastoma cells for precision medicine: a quantitative portrait of genomic (in)stability during the first 30 passages
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c-Jun-N-terminal phosphorylation regulates DNMT1 expression and genome wide methylation in gliomas
Part of Oncotarget, p. 6940-6954, 2017
Epigenetic Regulation of ZBTB18 Promotes Glioblastoma Progression
Part of Molecular Cancer Research, p. 998-1011, 2017
FC1000: normalized gene expression changes of systematically perturbed human cells
Part of Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology, p. 217-242, 2017
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Glioblastoma Cell Malignancy and Drug Sensitivity Are Affected by the Cell of Origin
Part of Cell Reports, p. 977-990, 2017
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Loss of Conservation of Graph Centralities in Reverse-engineered Transcriptional Regulatory Networks
Part of Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, p. 1089-1105, 2017
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Part of Cancer Research, p. 1741-1752, 2017
Part of Clinical Cancer Research, p. 1519-1530, 2017
Part of Scientific Reports, 2016
- DOI for ABCG2 regulates self-renewal and stem cell marker expression but not tumorigenicity or radiation resistance of glioma cells
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Case-specific potentiation of glioblastoma drugs by pterostilbene
Part of Oncotarget, p. 73200-73215, 2016
Genome-wide association study identifies multiple susceptibility loci for multiple myeloma
Part of Nature Communications, 2016
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Part of BMC Cancer, 2016
- DOI for High sensitivity isoelectric focusing to establish a signaling biomarker for the diagnosis of human colorectal cancer
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Integrative Modeling Reveals Annexin A2-mediated Epigenetic Control of Mesenchymal Glioblastoma
Part of EBioMedicine, p. 72-85, 2016
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Origin of the U87MG glioma cell line: Good news and bad news
Part of Science Translational Medicine, 2016
Simultaneous Multiplexed Measurement of RNA and Proteins in Single Cells
Part of Cell Reports, p. 380-389, 2016
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Travelling wave analysis of a mathematical model of glioblastoma growth
Part of Mathematical Biosciences, p. 75-81, 2016
Avoiding pitfalls in L-1-regularised inference of gene networks
Part of Molecular Biosystems, p. 287-296, 2015
Part of Cancer Research, 2015
Part of Nucleic Acids Research, 2015
- DOI for Efficient exploration of pan-cancer networks by generalized covariance selection and interactive web content
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Part of Oncotarget, p. 23647-23661, 2015
- DOI for Glioma-derived plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) regulates the recruitment of LRP1 positive mast cells
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Part of Experimental Cell Research, p. 280-288, 2015
Part of EBioMedicine, p. 1351-1363, 2015
- DOI for The Human Glioblastoma Cell Culture Resource: Validated Cell Models Representing All Molecular Subtypes
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Variants in ELL2 influencing immunoglobulin levels associate with multiple myeloma
Part of Nature Communications, 2015
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Bridging the gaps in systems biology
Part of Molecular Genetics and Genomics, p. 727-734, 2014
Functional association networks as priors for gene regulatory network inference
Part of Bioinformatics, p. 130-138, 2014
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Meta-Analysis of Neural Childhood Cancer Networks
Part of Neuro-Oncology, p. 140-140, 2014
Selective Calcium Sensitivity in Immature Glioma Cancer Stem Cells
Part of PLOS ONE, 2014
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Part of Cell, p. 313-328, 2014
Part of Neuro-Oncology, p. 1469-1478, 2013
Searching for Synergies: Matrix Algebraic Approaches for Efficient Pair Screening
Part of PLOS ONE, 2013
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