Dear friends,
Please join us for the final IACS seminar of the semester, which will feature Dr.
Franziska Michor with a presentation on the "Evolution of the Cancer Genome".
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https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news-events/video/iacs-seminar-series.
Date: Friday, April 26, 2013
Speaker: Franziska Michor, Associate Professor in the
Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health
Location: Maxwell-Dworkin G125, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Time: Informal lunch with speaker, 12:30pm; Talk, 1:00pm
Title: Evolution of the Cancer Genome
Abstract:
Cancer emerges through an evolutionary process in somatic tissue. The fundamental laws of
evolution can best be formulated as exact mathematical equations; therefore, the process
of cancer initiation and progression is amenable to mathematical investigation. Current
areas of research of the Michor lab include cancer stem cells, the evolution of drug
resistance, and the dynamics of metastasis formation. In this talk, I will introduce two
examples of the application of evolutionary theory to cancer genomics and treatment.
Speaker bio:
Franziska Michor studied molecular biology and mathematics at the University of Vienna,
Austria, and medical biotechnology at the Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy. She
received her PhD from Harvard's Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology in
2005. Afterwards, she was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows and worked at
the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. From 2007 to 2010, she was assistant professor at the
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. In 2010, she moved to the Dana-Farber Cancer
Institute and Harvard School of Public Health. Her lab investigates the evolutionary
dynamics of cancer.
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