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title="Adi Steif" class="">Adi Steif</a> ll Computational biology, cancer genomics, single cell sequencing ... <p></p> <a target="_self" href="https://medgen.med.ubc.ca/peter-stirling/" title="Peter Stirling" class=""><img decoding="async" src="https://medgen.med.ubc.ca/files/2014/01/cropped-peterstirling.jpg" alt="" class="" /></a> <a target="_self" href="https://medgen.med.ubc.ca/peter-stirling/" title="Peter Stirling" class="">Peter Stirling</a> ll Genome maintenance, DNA repair, RNA processing, DNA replication stress ... <p></p> <a target="_self" href="https://www.bccrc.ca/dept/tfl/people/peter-m-lansdorp#new_tab" title="Peter Lansdorp" class=""><img decoding="async" src="https://medgen.med.ubc.ca/files/2017/06/Lansdorp_corrected-e1671122089986.png" alt="" class="" /></a> <a target="_self" href="https://www.bccrc.ca/dept/tfl/people/peter-m-lansdorp#new_tab" title="Peter Lansdorp" class="">Peter Lansdorp</a> ll Our research focus is on the role of genome instability in aging ... 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