September 19 2013 Biodesign Auditorium 727 E. Tyler St. Tempe AZ 85287 View Web Cast Video Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the US exceeded only by cardiovascular diseases. About 1.6 million people will be diagnosed with cancer (excluding non-melanoma...
October 3 2013 Biodesign Auditorium 727 E. Tyler St. Tempe AZ 85287 View Web Cast Video The genome has traditionally been treated as a Read-Only Memory (ROM) subject to change by copying errors and accidents. I propose that we need to change that perspective and...
October 17 2013 Biodesign Auditorium 727 E. Tyler St. Tempe AZ 85287 View Web Cast Video Absorption of light by endogenous or exogenous cells and/or tissue-associated chromophores creates photophysical processes that are captured for diagnostic uses and for surgical...
October 31 2013 Biodesign Auditorium 727 E. Tyler St. Tempe AZ 85287 Cancer is a complex disease, the understanding of which is further challenged by the complexity of the biological samples that serve as disease surrogates for molecular study. Acquiring cancer...
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...
