From Unicellularity to Multicellularity and Back Again
2nd International Biannual Evolution and Cancer Conference at UCSF

Registration now open

Keynote talks by Mel Greaves and Anna Barker

Foci:

  1. cancer suppression in the evolution of multicellularity and
  2. applying insights from the evolution of single cellular organisms to the study of cancer

Sessions include:

  • Insights  from Experimental Evolution
  • Cancer  and the Evolution of Multicellularity
  • Dynamics of Somatic Evolution
  • Peto’s  Paradox, Comparative Oncology and the Evolution of Tumor Suppression
  • Somatic  Mutation and Levels of Selection
  • Applying  the Tools of Evolutionary Biology to Cancer
  • Life  History Theory in Cancer
  • The Evolutionary Medicine of Cancer

REGISTRATION:

Click here to register.
Registration for IBECC 2013 is being hosted through UCSF Continuing Medical Education (CME). All participants should register via that site, regardless of whether or not you will be requesting CME credit):

Before April 20th: Regular – $250; Student/Postdoc – $125
After April 20th: Regular – $500; Student/Postdoc – $300

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION (posters only)

Before April 20th (register first) – to submit, click here:
Notification of acceptance: May 1st

TRAVEL FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES:
The Company of Biologists Travel Grants: deadline: March 31st
Canadian Cancer Society Travel Awards for Senior level PhD Students: deadline Aprli 1st

NESCent support for under-represented minorites; for US-based scientists or US citizens (contact IBECC2013 organizers)

Hosted by the Center for Evolution and Cancer (CEC) and the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California San Francisco.

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