April 5th 2012 Biodesign Auditorium 727 E. Tyler St. Tempe AZ 85287 View Web Cast Video The major recent advances in genomic sequencing provide unparalleled opportunities to identify novel mechanisms that regulate susceptibility to human diseases, as well as disease...
April 19th 2012 Biodesign Auditorium 727 E. Tyler St. Tempe AZ 85287 View Web Cast Video Cancer does not exist in a vacuum: the host immune system continuously monitors cells for alterations in protein content and structure. Several key questions in cancer immunology...
September 20 2012 Biodesign Auditorium 727 E. Tyler St. Tempe AZ 85287 View Web Cast Video To a physicist, epigenetics – the passing of heritable traits to daughter cells without alteration of the genome – seems like magic. Yet it surely lies at the heart of cancer,...
October 4th 2012 Computing Commons 120 View Web Cast Video Definitions of information are often circular in nature. I present a new definition, rooted in the second law of thermodynamics, based on the requirements of replication and selection. The definition is...
