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Prof @ UCSB Chair of Integrative Anthropological Sciences (IAS)
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Registration and abstract submissions is now open for the first ever Microchimerism Conference! May 27-28, 2026 in Graz. Please reshare!
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International Conference on Microchimerism 2026 - Microchimerism
Hosting cells that are not your own - Microchimerism is one of biology’s most fascinating and little-known phenomena: the long-term of cells presence in our tissues that come from other bodies.
https://www.microchimerism.info/front-page/international-conference-on-microchimerism-2026/
3 months ago
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Genetics Society of America
20 days ago
A 🆕 episode of Genetics in Your World is live!
@ecoevogal.bsky.social
interviewed
@srishtipatil.bsky.social
&
@robjohnnoble.bsky.social
about their work testing a new approach to cancer treatment rooted in theory from evolutionary & conservation biology. Listen now:
buff.ly/B2YyByg
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Daniel E Chavez
about 1 month ago
🧬 Museums + zoos = a rapid ID pipeline. Using a local network in Ecuador, we genetically identified trafficked olingos (Bassaricyon), revealed a likely new country record, and shared a recipe for accessing high-quality samples from the wild. url:
academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...
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Microchimerism Community
about 1 month ago
Join Us in Graz for the first "International Conference on Microchimerism" in May 2026! Meet researchers from around the world exploring how exchanged cells shape human biology and become part of the growing microchimerism community. Sign up here:
www.microchimerism.info
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Trevor Graham
about 1 month ago
Are you fascinated by cancer biology and also ❤️ 💻 ? Feel like this ->😻<- at the thought of exploring oodles of cancer genomes, single cells and spatial multiomics data? Then our core Data Science Team at
@icr.ac.uk
might be the place for you. Vacancy here:
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Data Scientist in Sutton | The Institute of Cancer Research
View details and apply for this Data Scientist vacancy in Sutton. Salary : Salary range £39,805 - £53,500 (Salary appointment dependent on experience ) Reporting to: P...
https://jobs.icr.ac.uk/vacancies/1418/data-scientist.html
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David Basanta
about 1 month ago
Sunny Crete for a great meeting about
#cancer
#ecology
and
#evolution
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Kissil Lab
about 1 month ago
Testing Nature’s Defenses: Inducing Cancer in the Naked Mole Rat url:
aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscov...
Thanks
@elizsmckenna.bsky.social
and
@aacrjournals.bsky.social
for featuring our report!
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Testing Nature’s Defenses: Inducing Cancer in the Naked Mole Rat
Summary:. Although mice develop lung cancer from a single Eml4-Alk driver fusion, Shepard, Lester, and colleagues show that naked mole rats require three simultaneous oncogenic events: Eml4-Alk, Tp53 ...
https://aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscovery/article-abstract/16/1/7/771232/Testing-Nature-s-Defenses-Inducing-Cancer-in-the
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David Basanta
about 2 months ago
Last few hours to submit an abstract to the ISEEC (International Society for Evolution, Ecology and Cancer) meeting to take place in Crete May 21-23
#Cancer
#Evolution
#Ecology
#AI
www.evocancer.com
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ISEEC
The International Society for Evolution, Ecology and Cancer
https://www.evocancer.com
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Abstract submission closes tomorrow!! Come join us in Graz to talk about pregnancy, transplantation, and rare cells that wander!!
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about 2 months ago
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David Basanta
2 months ago
Submit your abstract (deadline January 10th) for this meeting organized by the International Society for Evolution, Ecology and Cancer. In beautiful Crete!
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2 months ago
Join me Tuesday with authors J. Arvid Agren and Manus M. Patten for the launch of their book The Paradox of the Organism: Adaptation and Internal Conflict.
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Richard McElreath 🐈⬛
3 months ago
I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students. I will record lectures & all will be found at this link:
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Registration and abstract submissions is now open for the first ever Microchimerism Conference! May 27-28, 2026 in Graz. Please reshare!
www.microchimerism.info/front-page/i...
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International Conference on Microchimerism 2026 - Microchimerism
Hosting cells that are not your own - Microchimerism is one of biology’s most fascinating and little-known phenomena: the long-term of cells presence in our tissues that come from other bodies.
https://www.microchimerism.info/front-page/international-conference-on-microchimerism-2026/
3 months ago
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Cat Bohannon
3 months ago
Research week for Book 2! Visiting UC Santa Barbara:
@emilyjacobs.bsky.social
studying female brains across the lifespan,
@mgurven.bsky.social
and
@amyboddy.bsky.social
thinking carefully about how culture intersects with female bodily change… gonna be amazing
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Ohhh. Check out this new book review on Hidden Guests by Lise Barnéoud!
undark.org/2025/11/28/b...
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Book Review: The Strangers Within Us
“Hidden Guests” explores how the emerging field of microchimerism is upending medicine, genetics, and our sense of self.
https://undark.org/2025/11/28/book-review-hidden-guests/
3 months ago
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Arvid Ågren
3 months ago
*SAVE THE DATE* On Tuesday December 16 at 11am Eastern we will have virtual book launch of The Paradox of the Organism. It will be hosted by the great
@athenaaktipis.bsky.social
. Please join! Zoom link here:
internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/seminars/
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Trevor Graham
3 months ago
We held the first
#CANPOP
symposium today (cancer population genetics club)
@icr.ac.uk
. 6 excellent & didactic talks, all applying mathematical
#popgen
theory to dissect somatic evolutionary dynamics: spanning the full range of pre-cancer, metastasis through to 6000 year old transmissible cancer...
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Alex Cagan
3 months ago
Thrilled to announce that I'm on Curious Cases tomorrow at 10am on BBC Radio 4! The episode - Immortal Jellies - looks at some remarkably long-lived species and what they can teach us about ageing. This is a key area of focus for our lab.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Curious Cases - Series 24 - Immortal Jellies - BBC Sounds
Hannah Fry and Dara Ó Briain ask whether a tiny jellyfish holds the secret to immortality.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002mmj2
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David Basanta
3 months ago
The International Society for Evolution, Ecology and Cancer
#ISEEC
has now a
#YouTube
channel:
www.youtube.com/channel/UCrC...
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ISEEC
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrCzukWZPu4-H6aV0FdvLTA
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Arvid Ågren
4 months ago
First copy of The Paradox of the Organism in the wild!
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Microchimerism is one of the most fascinating biological phenomena I've ever studied. But what do we actually know & what do we not know? Our new paper brings together microchimerism researchers to ask the key questions driving the field forward 🧬
advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
4 months ago
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Graham Coop
4 months ago
We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT
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Some of us carry cells from past and future generations. Check out Lise Barnéoud's book on microchimerism to learn how we're all cellular mosaics. Not all cells that wander are lost 😉
5 months ago
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Arvid Ågren
5 months ago
An early review of The Paradox of the Organism by
@publisherswkly.bsky.social
.
www.publishersweekly.com/9780674296381
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Sandy Anderson
5 months ago
If you are interested in learning more about what an IMO Workshop is like check out our dedicated website:
imoworkshop.org
. Note the workshop this year runs directly after our
#MathOnco25
meeting: mathematical-oncology.org/mathonco25.
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#MoffittIMO Workshop
#MoffittIMO Workshop
https://imoworkshop.org
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Sandy Anderson
5 months ago
Excited to announce that registration for the 13th
@mathonco.bsky.social
workshop on Treatment Revolution is now open. Held onsite
@moffittnews.bsky.social
Nov 2-Nov 7
#MoffittIMO
more details:
imo13.eventbrite.com
. Deluxe travel awards are available on a competitive basis, apply by 10/03!
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Rob Noble
5 months ago
Join
@cmaley.bsky.social
,
@lucielaplane.bsky.social
, Joel Brown and Benjamin Spada for a live EvoChat discussion about "How we define cancer matters", hosted by the International Society for Evolution, Ecology and Cancer (ISEEC). Oct 1st at 8am PST, 11am EST, 5pm CEST
ucsb.zoom.us/j/8313111375...
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🧬 Join us for an EvoChat on "How we define cancer matters" Oct 1: 8am PST/11am EST/5pm CEST Speakers: Carlo Maley, Lucie Laplane, Joel Brown & Benjamin Spada discuss universal cancer definitions across species and their clinical applications. Zoom:
ucsb.zoom.us/j/8313111375...
All welcome! 🔬
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Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting
Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise cloud communications.
https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/83131113758?pwd=PV6vYTeP0tWR7IZ8CDb8PqAPBK9jpc.1
5 months ago
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Michael Gurven
5 months ago
Released today! SEVEN DECADES: HOW WE EVOLVED TO LIVE LONGER Now available at your favorite bookseller. Leave a review on Goodreads or Amazon if you can. Please help spread the word!
#sevendecades
@princetonupress.bsky.social
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The book we have all been waiting for from
@mgurven.bsky.social
is finally here!! Read it to get a broad perspective on human evolution and aging - stay for the fun titles 😀
6 months ago
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Arvid Ågren
6 months ago
Coming December 16!
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Michael Gurven
6 months ago
One month before SEVEN DECADES: HOW WE EVOLVED TO LIVE LONGER is released! A prelim copy just arrived. I’m in Bolivia but my son opened the shipment and it appears that he approves. Preorder now (30% discount code: PUP30):
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Arvid Ågren
9 months ago
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Trevor Graham
8 months ago
Enjoyed this
@natrevcancer.nature.com
article on comparative oncology - how we can learn from other species 🐘🐋🦜🐍 about ways to prevent (& possibly treat) cancer. Both a review and a call to action for the research community.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@atjcagan.bsky.social
@cmaley.bsky.social
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Advancing cancer research via comparative oncology - Nature Reviews Cancer
Comparative oncology combines evolutionary biology, ecology, veterinary medicine and clinical oncology to better understand cancer, for example, by identifying the molecular and cellular mechanisms un...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41568-025-00841-8
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Alex Cagan
8 months ago
Thanks
@amyboddy.bsky.social
for the invitation to run this workshop on where ideas come from in science, barriers to creativity and how to overcome them. Great discussion from the group! I'm a convert to 'night science'
@urialonlab.bsky.social
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Kit Curtius
8 months ago
Next up at
#EBECancer25
summer school - hands-on digital pathology workshop with
@mihaelaangelova.bsky.social
@chandler-gatenbee.bsky.social
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Wellcome Connecting Science Learning and Training
8 months ago
🎉 Congratulations to our Evolutionary Biology and Ecology of Cancer course bursary winners! 🔍 Interested in future opportunities to join our courses through bursaries and funding? Explore more: bit.ly/3GquFnS
#EBECancer25
#ScientificConferences
#Bursaries
#FinancialAssistance
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Late night session on how to think of good ideas!!
#EBECancer25
@atjcagan.bsky.social
discusses the creativity in science & helped us practice different ways to think and talk about our science.
8 months ago
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Finishing up
#EBECancer25
with a comparative genomics tutorial by Daniel Chavez. What an amazing week of evolution, ecology and cancer biology
@trevorgraham.bsky.social
@yosoykit.bsky.social
@afrankell.bsky.social
8 months ago
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Trevor Graham
8 months ago
Closing keynote from the fabulous
@atjcagan.bsky.social
on "The impossibility of whales" discussing somatic mutagenesis across species. Brilliantly delivered and exceptionally illustrated talk, as anyone who knows Alex's work would expect!
#EBECancer25
@eventswcs.bsky.social
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Trevor Graham
8 months ago
Now medical oncologist and clinician scientist
@beckilee.bsky.social
leading the first clinical session. Discussing how to bring evolutionary and ecological ideas into molecular tumour boards, and how to design evo clinical trials for better treatment regimens.
#EBEcancer25
@eventswcs.bsky.social
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Trevor Graham
8 months ago
This morning we switch focus to cancer ecology, starting with Marta Luksza
@mskcancercenter.bsky.social
lecturing on tumour-immune coevolution and immunogenomics.
#EBECancer25
@amyboddy.bsky.social
@afrankell.bsky.social
@yosoykit.bsky.social
@sangerinstitute.bsky.social
@icr.ac.uk
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Trevor Graham
8 months ago
Our Evolutionary Biology and Ecology of Cancer Summer School
#EBECancer2025
in full swing
@eventswcs.bsky.social
in sunny Hinxton, Cambridge.
@florentmouliere.bsky.social
giving a deep dive into tracking cancer evolution with cfDNA.
@amyboddy.bsky.social
@yosoykit.bsky.social
@afrankell.bsky.social
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Kit Curtius
8 months ago
here this week learning with all of our students at
#EBECancer25
@eventswcs.bsky.social
! having a lot of Sudoku-type fun at our “grammar of somatic evolution” with tutor
@afrankell.bsky.social
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Sandy Anderson
9 months ago
Save the date
#MathOnco25
! October 29th-31st in Tampa, Florida. Directly before the 13th IMO Workshop (November 3rd-7th) - stay the weekend and brainstorm the beaches! More information to follow but
@evoltherapy.bsky.social
will be a key theme
@mathonco.bsky.social
@moffittnews.bsky.social
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Zachary Compton
10 months ago
Our reply to Butler et al's recent
@pnas.org
paper on Peto's Paradox.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Paradoxical indeed | PNAS
Paradoxical indeed
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2504512122
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Rob Noble
10 months ago
There's still time! Abstract submission deadline extended till Monday 5th May.
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Dr. Stefania Kapsetaki
12 months ago
New study on diet, plasma glucose, and cancer prevalence across vertebrates published in Nature communications (
@naturecomms.bsky.social
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-57344-1
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Trevor Graham
12 months ago
Our
#Cancer
#Evolution
summer school runs again 30 June-3 July at the beautiful Genome Campus in Hinxton, UK sponsored by
@wellcometrust.bsky.social
Ideal for starters in the field; this year's focus is on using genomic data for cancer evo research. Brilliant & inspiring faculty!
bit.ly/40nLdDD
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Zachary Compton
12 months ago
One more day to submit abstracts for ISEMPH talks! I am looking forward to hosting a symposium "The Future of Comparative Oncology" that will be paired with
@evo-eco-onco.bsky.social
's cancer evolution session.
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Kit Curtius
about 1 year ago
Applications are open for our Evolutionary Biology and Ecology of Cancer summer course at the Wellcome Genome Campus, UK! This is a great opportunity for early career scientists/trainees to get plugged into this field
#mathonco
@amyboddy.bsky.social
@trevorgraham.bsky.social
@afrankell.bsky.social
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