November 6 2013 Biodesign Auditorium 727 E. Tyler St. Tempe AZ 85287 View Web Cast Video Cancer’s evolutionary roots can be traced by at least to the dawn of multicellularity 1.5 billion years ago. In that evolutionary context, cancer appears to be a type of atavism,...
February 6 2014 Biodesign Institute Auditorium Over the last decade, there has been an explosion in interest in the human microbiome both from the scientific community and the general public. This interest has been driven, in part, by the development of tools...
February 20 2014 Biodesign Auditorium 727 E. Tyler St. Tempe AZ 85287 The epigenome is reset during embryogenesis and matures around the end of development. Large scale genomic studies have now shown considerable proliferation dependent epigenome changes (drift) in...
March 6 2014 Biodesign Auditorium 727 E. Tyler St. Tempe AZ 85287 Most of the diversity of life on earth is contained within the genomes of the planet’s microbes, including bacteria and particularly viruses, which infect every known form of cellular life on the...
March 20 2014 Biodesign Auditorium 727 E. Tyler St. Tempe AZ 85287 Our concept of a stable genome is changing from one in which the DNA sequence is passed faithfully from generation to generation to another in which genomes are plastic and responsive to...
