Dear friends, Just a reminder that tomorrow we'll have the final IACS seminar of the semester, a presentation by Franziska Michor of Dana-Farber and the Harvard School of Public Health, on "Evolution of the Cancer Genome." Details: 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. Visit http://iacs.seas.harvard.edu/events to subscribe to our Google calendar, manage your subscription to this mailing list, or access video and audio recordings of previous seminars. _______________________________________________ Iacs-events mailing list Iacs-events(a)seas.harvard.edu https://lists.seas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iacs-events