Outreach

CEC supports and organizes outreach activities aimed at promoting a better undertanding of various cancer-related issues among educators, young scientists and the general public.

• Interview with John Pepper (CEC External Faculty) - talking about cancer and evolution (November 11, 2013)
  
• Video posts from the Public Event at the 2nd International Biennial Evolution and Cancer Conference (UCSF, June 12-16, 2013):
• Rap song on Evolutionary Medicine - Baba Brinkman, Blind Spot
  
• Rap song on Cancer - Baba Brinkman, Revenge of the Somatic cell
• Public Lecture - Carl Zimmer, "The Devil's Tumor: How Cancer Evolved into a new form of life"
  
• A series of interviews from several workshops organized by the Center for Convergence of Physical Science and Cancer Biology (inlcuding an workshop on Evolution, Development and Cancer).
  
• Whitehead Institute Member Robert Weinberg's keynote address from the 2011 Whitehead Colloquium, November 5, 2011: Cancer Stem Cells: A new Target in the Fight Against Cancer.
  
• Lectures on Evolution and Cancer
• Evolution and Cancer Conference. 2012 France, Montpellier
  
• Evolution and Cancer. 2012. David Botstein (Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics. Princeton University).
  
• The phylogenomics of Cancer. 2011. Mark Pallen (University of Birmingham)
  

• Click on the links below for talks and interviews given by  CEC  Faculty:

• Evolution in Cancer: Lessons from Barrett's Esophagus. Carlo Maley. Public Seminar, Center for the Convergence of Physical Science and Cancer Biology. February 23, 2012
  
• Why we get cancer and why  it has been so hard to cure - Carlo Maley
• New Cancer Mentality Interview with Carlo Maley
• click here for other New Cancer Mentality interviews
• Why do benign growths so often progress to malignant cancers? - Athena Aktipis and John Pepper; the 2010 AACR meeting on "Frontiers in cancer Prevention Research"
• The role of differentiation in neoplasms and somatic evolution - Carlo Maley; American Association for Cancer Research, 101st Annual Meeting 2010
  
• Evolution and Cancer - Bernard Crespi; Evolutionary Medicine class at Harvard U
• Evolution and Medicine - Interview Randolph Nesse and Richard Dawkins, from the UK award-winning televisin series, Teh Genius of Charles Darwin
• The Great Opportunity: New Evolutionary Applications in Medicine - Randolph Nesse. Case University Year of Darwin Lecture 2009
• Darwinian Medicine - Randolph Nesse. Cambridge Univ. Darwin Festival 2009
• Overview of Evolutionary Applications in Medicine - Randolph Nesse. Sackler Colloquim, National Academy 2009
• The December 2011 issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach was dedicated to Evolution and Medicine, with articles on how evolutionary theories are critical for
  understanding human disease and why thorough classroom instruction in
  evolution is essential. Click here for table of contents and links to some of the articles. Go to Panda's Thumb for a review (by James DeGregori and Michael Antolin) of the issue.