Cancer and the Nature of Life

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Our monthly public discussion series, Cancer and the Nature of Life got off to a great start – Marc Tollis and Carlo Maley discussed: Why Whales and Elephants Rarely Get Cancer – a Genetic Detective Story.  Watch it here.  Our next episode is on Friday...

“Cancer and the Nature of Life” – New discussion series

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ACE has a new discussion series about exciting themes in cancer research.  It is suitable both for the public and for scientists.  It will will take place monthly, on the third Friday of each month at 11 am PST (or noon on occasion). We are kicking off the series by...

Most Tumors in Snakes are Cancerous

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This study, A Multi-Institutional Collaboration to Understand Neoplasia, Treatment and Survival of Snakes, is just published in the journal Animals (January 21 2022).  Although snakes seem to have more tumors than other species of reptiles studied, nothing much is...

Post-doc position in Switzerland – Microbe Ecology and Evolution

Funding Opportunities

A motivated postdoc is wanted to work on modelling the ecology and evolution of microbial communities.Our lab uses theory and experiments in a collaborative approach to understand how members of small microbial communities affect each other’s ecology and evolution....

Why Some Species of Animals Get More Cancer Than Others – Exciting new paper!

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Writing in the journal Nature in a paper titled Cancer Risk Across Mammals, ACE researchers and their collaborators discuss why cancer rates are higher in some species than others.  It seems to have a lot to do with diet, with meat eaters having more cancer than...