This week, we talk to @amyboddy.bsky.social about the weird and wonderful world of microchimerism.
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This week, we talk to @amyboddy.bsky.social about the weird and wonderful world of microchimerism.
youtu.be/pFi5DGFpavA
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
epthepod.podbean.com/e/amy-boddy/
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
🧬 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...
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
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: jobs.icr.ac.uk/vacancies/14...
16.01.2026 13:43 — 👍 9 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0Sunny Crete for a great meeting about #cancer #ecology and #evolution
14.01.2026 14:45 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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!
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
Abstract submission closes tomorrow!! Come join us in Graz to talk about pregnancy, transplantation, and rare cells that wander!!
08.01.2026 17:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Submit your abstract (deadline January 10th) for this meeting organized by the International Society for Evolution, Ecology and Cancer. In beautiful Crete!
15.12.2025 11:00 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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.
14.12.2025 20:30 — 👍 24 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 2
course schedule as a table. Available at the link in the post.
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: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
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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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
07.12.2025 17:26 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 4 📌 0
Ohhh. Check out this new book review on Hidden Guests by Lise Barnéoud! undark.org/2025/11/28/b...
04.12.2025 19:19 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
*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/
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...
01.12.2025 20:37 — 👍 20 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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.
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The International Society for Evolution, Ecology and Cancer #ISEEC has now a #YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCrC...
18.11.2025 11:24 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0First copy of The Paradox of the Organism in the wild!
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timeline of major microchimerism papers published
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 🧬
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16.10.2025 22:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We'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
15.10.2025 15:53 — 👍 162 🔁 211 💬 1 📌 5
Preorder here: greystonebooks.com/products/hid...
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A book cover of Hidden guest the book. It is out Nov 4th. The image says "what if some of your cells were not your own? What if they once belonged to someone else?"
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 😉
An early review of The Paradox of the Organism by @publisherswkly.bsky.social.
www.publishersweekly.com/9780674296381
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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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!
Abstract: Current definitions of cancer describe what cancer does but not what it is. Furthermore, they derive largely from human cases and may not apply to other multicellular organisms, especially those lacking a basal membrane. Comparative oncology, however, has shown that cancer occurs across a broad diversity of organisms. What definition should be adopted when framing cancer in a comparative and evolutionary perspective? And can an evolution-based definition be applied in clinical oncology? We will show that a universal definition of cancer not only helps provide a basis for progress in comparative oncology, but can also help to explain the diversity of cancer phenomena within humans.
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...
🧬 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! 🔬
