ACE Intern wins PhD place at Johns Hopkins to study genetics

ACE Intern wins PhD place at Johns Hopkins to study genetics

"I've learned such a lot from ACE about how research works and how to go through the research process. I've learnt you can't always trust every result; you have to make sure that you can prove it"  says Kenna Sherman. Congratulations to Kenna Sherman who has just been...

Rethinking how we view and manage cancer – new book

Rethinking how we view and manage cancer – new book

Published by Princeton University Press, March 2020 When we think of the forces driving cancer, we don’t necessarily think of evolution. But evolution and cancer are closely linked, for the historical processes that created life also created cancer. The Cheating Cell...

Cancer in African Wildlife

Cancer in African Wildlife

Just before Covid-19 struck and the world changed, 5 members of ACE flew to Nairobi to spend 10 days working with their collaborators from the Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS) and the world-renowned Institute for Primate Research (IPR). Tara Harrison, Valerie Harris, Amy...

New ACE Undergrads

New ACE Undergrads

Welcome to our new ACE Interns and all the other undergraduate students who are working on our projects. We love having you with us! It's great just how many students have joined ACE - we have 11 formal interns and many more obtaining course credits. They are a really...

Public Lecture: From Fish to FOMO

ACE, The Center for Evolution and Medicine, and the Biodesign Institute are delighted to host Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz for a public lecture on Thursday, January 16, 2020, 5 - 6:00 pm. The talk, titled From Fish to FOMO: How Social Media and the Ancient “Biology...

ACE Holds First Bootcamp

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...