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2020 Summer Fellowship
The National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Cancer Systems Biology Consortium and Physical Sciences in Oncology Network are offering *rising Junior and Senior undergraduates with outstanding research potential the opportunity to work closely with faculty mentors from...
ACE Holds First Bootcamp
We've just held our first week-long boot camp to demonstrate the research methods used by ACE. 16 attendees (mostly post-grads and post-docs) came to Arizona State University from across Europe and the US. Mornings were spent in tutorials by members of ACE...
Student Work on ACE and Cancer Research
This past semester, students from Paul and Pauline Davies' Science and Health Communcations (HON 494) class have written articles on cancer research. These reports include work done by ACE as well as Carl Fink, a professor at the University of Minnesota who's using...
Dancing for Science: Cancer Research Uses Human Bodies as Models
In our Health and Science Communication class at ASU, students were lucky enough to have a visit from renowned science and dance specialist, Carl Flink, who opened our eyes to new ways of viewing our research. Students Leah Jameson...
Ace Visits DISCOVERoom at a Phoenix Elementary School
ACE team members were delighted to work with the lunchtime science club in the DISCOVERoom at Kyrene de la Colina Elementary School in Phoenix before the leadup to their summer holidays. The DISCOVERoom is a wonderful resource for the kids; it is...
ACE Students Go on Lab Exchange
Our intern at UCSB, Kenna Sherman, who has been working with Amy Boddy, visited ACE in Josh Shiffman's lab along with new PhD student Zachary Compton at the Huntsman Cancer Institute in Utah. They went to learn how to perform DNA damage response essays....
Why whales don’t get as much cancer: clues for human disease
New research paper from ACE Whales don't get nearly as much cancer as their large size would predict so a team from ACE investigated why. Their genomic analysis reveals that as whale increased in size during evolutionary history, their cancer defense mechanisms...
Cactus Garden Featured in Phoenix Magazine!
Instead of battling cancer, some cactus breeds adapt. Arizona State University researchers wonder if humans can, too. Read more in Phoenix Magazine! https://www.phoenixmag.com/2019/03/15/the-cactus-cure/
Now Available: Video of public talk from CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna
https://player.mediaamp.io/p/U8-EDC/1NdtkAtDkeFO/embed/select/media/AhjSWHNgTN9R?form=html Jennifer Doudna's talk, The Future of Gene Editing: The Sweeping Implications of CRISPR Biology was a great success! The auditorium was packed with lots of audience involvement...
From Cacti to Coral, Cancer is a Part of Life
ACE researcher, Athena Aktipis, will give a public talk on the ubiquity of cancer among all multicellular life on March 27th, from 4-5pm at the Biodesign Institute Auditorium. Join us for the talk, and the reception that follows on the patio of Biodesign C, to...
Events
KJZZ Interview with Athena Aktipis and Carlo Maley – Cactus Garden and Cancer Adaptive Therapy
KJZZ’s Mark Brodie talks to Athena Aktipis and Carlo Maley in the cancer cactus garden at ASU. They discuss how strangely-formed, crested cacti (fasciated) not only look amazing but are reminiscent of cancer, reminding us that that the disease is present in all multi-cellular life. Aktipis and Maley’s research is pointing the way to clinical trials of ‘adaptive therapy’ for metastatic cancer, whereby ‘nicer’ cancer cells are deliberately kept alive to keep the ‘nasties’ in check – a potentially more effective treatment than aggressive chemotherapy.
View Public Lecture by Susan Rosenberg PhD – Why Cancers (and Infections) Beat Us and How to Turn the Tables, Apr. 25th
Outwitting cancer’s ability to evolve drug resistance requires a deep grasp of the mechanisms of evolution. A recent discovery that cells can control their own mutations looks set to transform cancer therapy.
Tracing the deep Evolutionary Roots of Cancer workshop
Mon-Wed, April 23-25, Scottsdale. Cancer represents a breakdown in the regulatory mechanisms that mediate the relationship between individual cells and the organism as a whole, a relationship that dates back to the dawn of multicellularity over a billion years ago....
Evolutionary Biology and Ecology of Cancer Workshop
Evolutionary biologists and students from around the world gathered in Cambridge, UK for an intensive weeklong workshop in June 2018.
