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...

Student Work on ACE and Cancer Research

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...

Ace Visits DISCOVERoom at a Phoenix Elementary School

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

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....