Profile of Zachary Compton

Profile of Zachary Compton

Read this great profile of post-doctoral ACE researcher, Zach Compton.  Zach is now at the University of Arizona.  We are so proud of Zach!

2025 Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology

2025 Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology

The 2025 Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) will take place in Barcelona, Spain, from August 17 to 22, 2025. Key dates:25 April 2025,  Call for Abstracts ends: 1 June 2025, Early bird registration ends; 2 June 2025, Regular Registration...

ACE at 2025 Science Fairs

ACE at 2025 Science Fairs

February was was a busy month for the undergraduate students who participate in ACE outreach.  They helped children isolate DNA from strawberries and built cells out of goo and PlayDoh both at the Chandler Science and Innovation Fair and at ASU's Open Door, the annual...

Resistance Management for Cancer: Lessons from Farmers

Resistance Management for Cancer: Lessons from Farmers

Preventing cancer cells becoming resistant to treatment drugs is one of the trickiest problems facing oncologists, yet farmers have worked out ways to manage an analogous problem - controlling the development of resistance to chemicals by the pests in their fields. In...

Is chimerism associated with cancer across the tree of life?

In this intriguing paper published in PLOS ONE in June 2023, ACE researchers and their colleagues studied the association between chimerism and cancer across the tree of life.  A chimera is an organism has that has cells from two or more genetically distinct sources. ...