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Conference funding for early-career trainees in Cancer Systems Biology
Funding deadline - 19th August 2022. Systems Approaches to Cancer Biology The Systems Approaches to Cancer Biology conference will take place October 19–22, 2022 at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA. The SACB Scholars Program aims to bring new people...
‘In Search of Chemozoa’ – finalist in major competition
Congratulations to Boredomresearch! In Search of Chemozoa is a finalist for the SCINEMA International Science Film Festival (a project of the Royal Institution of Australia) in the experimental/animation category. The film festival is the largest of its kind in the...
Next Cancer and Nature of Life – 19th August
Join us at Noon (Arizona time) when our guest will be Professor Paul Turner of Yale University talking about microbes, evolution and cancer. We are taking a break from the series in July!
Transmissible Cancer in Mammals -Watch recording here
Cancer and the Nature of Life Series. Friday 13 May 2022, Noon AZ and Pacific time. Please join us! Brief Abstract: Cancer arises when mutations drive cells of the body to abandon their usual functions and to instead embark upon a “selfish” evolutionary program...
ACE advocate’s story of bringing art and her cancer experience together
Erin McGee Ferrell's has interwoven art with her own cancer journey. Read about it in the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship Newsletter!
Celebrating Gregor Mendel’s bicentenary
Gregor Mendel is known as the father of genetics who was born 200 years ago in July 1822. His life as a catholic Abbott and meticulous studies with pea plants are described in this radio documentary by ACE's Pauline Davies
Cancer and the Nature of Life Series – Michael Metzger’s talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uaec1ETs0hE&t=4s Watch to discover the latest findings on cancer cells that behave like free-living organisms! Brief abstract: Cancer is not normally contagious, but in some cases, cancer can jump from one individual to another. In...
Evolutionary Biology and Ecology of Cancer Summer School 2022 – Applications open
Applications are open for the Evolutionary Biology and Ecology of Cancer Summer School 2022, taking place between June 13-17, 2022 at the Wellcome Genome Campus, UK.Students will have the opportunity to explore various modelling techniques (e.g. agent-based, game...
The Electric Life of Cancer – watch this amazing video
This is the second episode of our monthly ‘Cancer and the Nature of Life’ series. Mike Levin from Tufts University does an amazing job with ‘The Electric Life of Cancer’.
Cancer Garden creation described in ‘Leonardo’
A paper describing the background to the creation of Endless Forms Most Beautiful, the cancer cactus garden at Arizona State University, has appeared in the arts/science journal, Leonardo. Read about the unique collaboration between of the landscape architect, the...
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Conference funding for early-career trainees in Cancer Systems Biology
Funding deadline - 19th August 2022. Systems Approaches to Cancer Biology The Systems Approaches to Cancer Biology conference will take place October 19–22, 2022 at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA. The SACB Scholars Program aims to bring new people...
Transmissible Cancer in Mammals -Watch recording here
Cancer and the Nature of Life Series. Friday 13 May 2022, Noon AZ and Pacific time. Please join us! Brief Abstract: Cancer arises when mutations drive cells of the body to abandon their usual functions and to instead embark upon a “selfish” evolutionary program...
Cancer and the Nature of Life Series – Michael Metzger’s talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uaec1ETs0hE&t=4s Watch to discover the latest findings on cancer cells that behave like free-living organisms! Brief abstract: Cancer is not normally contagious, but in some cases, cancer can jump from one individual to another. In...
Evolutionary Biology and Ecology of Cancer Summer School 2022 – Applications open
Applications are open for the Evolutionary Biology and Ecology of Cancer Summer School 2022, taking place between June 13-17, 2022 at the Wellcome Genome Campus, UK.Students will have the opportunity to explore various modelling techniques (e.g. agent-based, game...
The Electric Life of Cancer – watch this amazing video
This is the second episode of our monthly ‘Cancer and the Nature of Life’ series. Mike Levin from Tufts University does an amazing job with ‘The Electric Life of Cancer’.