And more great stuff in the second session! Rob Unckless on B chromosomes, Ivar Westenberg on fungal centromeres, Jeffrey Vedanayagam on meiotic drive suppression, Fanny Mazzamuro on transformation and mobile genetic elements, and Austin Burt on synthetic gene drives

Good night #evol2024. Thanks to all the organizers & participants for an excellent conference. À bientôt, Montréal!

Thanks to Richard Harth for writing this article on our latest findings in birds news.asu.edu/20240730-scien…

Accepted in Nature Communications

Check out our new paper in Evolutionary Applications! We predict the consequences of exposing wildlife to human-made oncogenic ecosystems and argue for the importance of accurately quantifying the costs of activating anti-cancer defences. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Our opinion piece is out today, "The origin of novel traits in cancer"! Do the phenotypes come first and only later are they locked in by genetic or epigenetic changes? Insights from evolutionary biology are super useful for understanding cancer! cell.com/trends/cancer/… #S_Frank

New publication #EMPH on germline mutation rate and cancer mortality in vertebrates doi.org/10.1093/emph/e… A large team effort: thanks Arizona Cancer Evolution Center Zach Compton, Walker Mellon, Orsolya Vincze, Mathieu Giraudeau, Tara Harrison, Lisa Abegglen, Amy Boddy, Carlo Maley, Joshua Schiffman!

How life history theory may be leveraged to explain the differences in cross-species cancer risk is a fascinating puzzle. Slowly but surely we are adding pieces to that puzzle🧬 The latest from Arizona Cancer Evolution Center University of Arizona Cancer Center Dr. Stefania Kapsetaki academic.oup.com/emph/advance-a…

New paper in ISEMPH with Zach Compton, Andriy Marusyk, and Aurora Nedelcu: * The Elephant and the Spandrel * Comparative oncology asks why some species get more cancer than others. Here, we evaluate some of the fundamental assumptions of the field.

The Elephant and the Spandrel academic.oup.com/emph/advance-a…

Golf in Arizona

twitter is BACK baby!

Seems like yesterday Cristina Baciu and I were interviewing them to be Arizona Cancer Evolution Center Scholar students! I’m thrilled to host Walker Mellon and Bryan Yavari next week at University of Arizona Cancer Center

Natural selection acting on complex traits hampers the predictive accuracy of polygenic scores in ancient samples biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_evobio

A theoretical exploration of evolution of evolvability in rapidly adapting populations. rdcu.be/dTS6z

Our paper on clonal evolution is out in Nature Reviews Cancer The output of a cool collaboration with Carlo Maley We searched for where and how progress could be made in our understanding of evolutionary dynamics in cancers. rdcu.be/dT8pT Thanks Carlo for this collab!

Did you know that most invividulas in Ecuadorian zoos come from the wild (e.g rescued from wild trafficking)? I will talk about the importance of creating zoo biobanks coupled with Genomic research for conservation.