Gene mutations in cancer according to TCGA studies
Lab members' home countries
Philadelphia fun facts
Former lab members
Nobel Prize Winners
100

This gene is mutated in ~45% of uveal melanoma

What is GNA11

100

This country has 3 times as many sheep as people

What is Australia

100

She sewed the original American flag

Who is Betsy Ross

100

He showed that FOXD3 regulated an ErbB3 adaptive response to BRAF inhibitors

Who is Ethan Abel

100

A winner is 2018 for "for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation"

Who is James Allison or Tasuku Honjo

200

At ~69%, this is the most mutated gene in the head and neck squamous cell carcinoma cohort

What is TP53

200

This country has been the largest producer of coffee for the last 150 year

What is Brazil

200

These entertainers parade down Broad street on New Year's Day

Who are the Mummers

200

He is now a Journal Editor at Science Immunology

Who is Dan Erkes

200

A winner in 1983 for " "for her discovery of mobile genetic elements"

Who is Barbara McClintock

300

This pseudokinase is mutated in ~11-12% of gastric cancer and colon tumors

What is ERBB3

300

This country has the world's most visited museum

What is France

300

He sang the theme music for the film, Philadelphia

Who is Bruce Springsteen

300

She was the first person to publish a uveal melanoma manuscript from the lab

Who is Hanyin Cheng

300

A winner in 2001 for "for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle"

Who is Tim Hunt, Paul Nurse or Lee Hartwell

400

This deubiquitylase is mutated in 11% of clear cell renal cell carcinomas

What is BAP1

400

This country has >90% of the world's seaweed consumption

What is Korea

400

This well known boys pop group grew up in north Philadelphia

Who is Boys II men

400

She was born in Mozambique

Who is Nelisa Bechtel

400

A winner in 2006 for their discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA"

Who is Andrew Fire or Craig Mello

500

This transcription factor is mutated in ~20% of pancreatic cancers

What is SMAD4

500

Jeans were invented by a tailor from this country

What is Latvia

500

Philadelphia remained the US capital until this year

What is 1800

500

His friend Dominic Calvert Lewin plays soccer for Everton

Who is Connor Hollingworth

500

A winner in 2009 "for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"

Who is Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider, or Jack Szostak