I have been a postdoctoral researcher in computational biology in the Chan Lab in Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in NYC. Previously, I was a post doc in the Sims group in the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine at the University of Oxford. I obtained by PhD as a Mathematical Genomics and Medicine PhD student in the Markowetz group in the CRUK CI at the University of Cambridge. I am an alumna of Clare College, Cambridge, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. My teaching experience includes supervising for the Bioinformatics course (Part II Computer Science), helping in practical classes in the MPhil in Computational Biology at the University of Cambridge, as well as teaching single-cell transcriptomics in the Oxford Biomedical Data Science Training Programme. I have also been involved in the Cambridge Resilience Web and I am a Fellow of the Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera.
Publications
- Morrill Gavarró, L., Couturier, D. L., & Markowetz, F. (2025). A Dirichlet-multinomial mixed model for determining differential abundance of mutational signatures. BMC bioinformatics, 26(1), 59.
- Sauer, C. M., Hall, J. A., Couturier, D. L., Bradley, T., Piskorz, A. M., Griffiths, J., … & Brenton, J. D. (2023). Molecular landscape and functional characterization of centrosome amplification in ovarian cancer. Nature Communications, 14(1), 6505.
- Smith, P., Bradley, T., Morrill Gavarró, L., Goranova, T., Ennis, D. P., Mirza, H. B., … & McNeish, I. A. (2023). The copy number and mutational landscape of recurrent ovarian high-grade serous carcinoma. Nature Communications, 14(1), 4387.
- Vias, M. and Morrill Gavarró, L. M., Sauer, C. M., Sanders, D. A., Piskorz, A. M., Couturier, D. L., … & Brenton, J. D. (2023). High-grade serous ovarian carcinoma organoids as models of chromosomal instability. Elife, 12, e83867.
- Drews, R. M., Hernando, B., Tarabichi, M., Haase, K., Lesluyes, T., Smith, P. S., … & Markowetz, F. (2022). A pan-cancer compendium of chromosomal instability. Nature, 606(7916), 976-983.
- Cheng, Z., Mirza, H. B., Ennis, D. P., Smith, P., Morrill Gavarró, L., Sokota, C., … & McNeish, I. A. (2022). The copy number landscape of early stage ovarian high grade serous carcinoma. Cancer Research, 82(12_Supplement), 53-53.
- Jiménez-Sánchez, A., Cybulska, P., Mager, K. L., Koplev, S., Cast, O., Couturier, D. L., … & Miller, M. L. (2020). Unraveling tumor–immune heterogeneity in advanced ovarian cancer uncovers immunogenic effect of chemotherapy. Nature genetics, 52(6), 582-593.
- Broutier, L., Mastrogiovanni, G., Verstegen, M., Francies, H. E., Morrill Gavarró, L., Bradshaw, C. R., … & Huch, M. (2017). Human primary liver cancer–derived organoid cultures for disease modeling and drug screening. Nature medicine, 23(12), 1424-1435.
