May 2012 eNewsletter

Call for papers: Next generation sequencing studies with relevance to the understanding of disease mechanisms

The coupling of pathology with massively parallel sequencing studies provides a unique opportunity to further our understanding of the pathophysiological and pathogenetic mechanisms of human disease, a major interest of The Journal of Pathology.

The Journal is now soliciting submissions of primary research based on massively parallel sequencing taking advantage of novel insights into the genetic basis of human diseases, including but not restricted to, the identification of new genotype-phenotype associations and novel driver mutations, characterisation of patterns of genetic instability, and on the topic of intra-tumour genetic heterogeneity.

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Submit your research for publication online at
mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jpath

New Virtual Issue: Stem cells, clonal expansion and cancer progression

Stem cell biology is very much at the heart of the disease that is most familiar to histopathologists — cancer. This virtual issue of the has compiled a series of papers published recently in the Journal of Pathology dealing with stem cell behaviour in normal human epithelial tissues, their role in tumour initiation, tumour progression (including field cancerization) and metastasis, particularly the role of the microenvironment and epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT).

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Featured Article This Month
Enjoy FREE access to the following paper

CDC4/FBXW7 and the ‘just enough’ model of tumourigenesis

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2012 Annual Review Issue: The Cell Biology of Disease

"This 2012 Annual Review Issue of The Journal of Pathology argues strongly that cell biology, in its many disciplines, underpins the foundation of our understanding of the mechanisms of disease—the holy grail of pathology. Our increasing knowledge of the human genome will not be enough to attain this goal without parallel developments in our comprehension of the results, at the cellular level, of these genetic changes. In the end, it is cell biology and cell biologists who will deliver this mission."

- Nicholas A Wright and Richard Poulsom

Enjoy FREE access to this and also the 2011 Annual Review Issue on Cancer Biology and Genomics online.

EVENTS

DIGESTIVE DISEASE WEEK
May 19-22, 2012
San Diego, CA, USA

Visit Deputy Editor Richard Poulsom at the Wiley-Blackwell booth #4132 in San Diego at DDW 2012.

American Society of Clinical Oncology
June 2-4, 2012
Chicago, Illinois, USA

Pathological Society Summer Meeting
July 3-5, 2012
Sheffield, UK

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NEW PODCAST

Malcolm Alison introduces and discusses the latest virtual issue compiled and annotated by him and Nadine Gaisa.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Welcome to our new Associate Editors from the Autumn: Dr Nathalie Wong from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Dr David Huntsman from British Columbia Cancer Research Centre, Vancouver, Canada.

We also welcome our new Editorial Board members: Dr Charles Swanton from the Translational Cancer Therapeutics Laboratory in London and Professor David Bowtell of Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in East Melbourne, Australia.

PATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY

The Journal of Pathology is published on behalf of the Pathological Society.

To find out more about the Pathological Society, including information on how to join, visit www.pathsoc.org.