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Short CV (for a full CV click here)CURRENT POSITIONS & AFFILIATIONS:Professor of Biology (2010 - present) University of New Brunswick, Department of Biology, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada Director of Education and Outreach (2011 - 2015) Center for Evolution and Cancer, University of California San Francisco, USA External Faculty (2011 - present) Center for Evolution and Cancer, University of California at San Francisco, USA Adjunct Faculty (2002 - present) University of Arizona, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, USA RECENT PAPERS (for other papers and downloads go to Publications): May AN, Crawford B, AM Nedelcu. 2018. In Vitro Model-Systems to Understand the Biology and Clinical Significance of Circulating Tumor Cell Clusters. Frontiers in Oncology 8:63. Nedelcu AM. 2017. Understanding ancient legacies to expose and exploit cancer's evolutionary vulnerabilities. In Ujvari B, Roche B, Thomas F (Eds) Ecology and Evolution of Cancer. Pp 203-209. Elsevier. Figueroa-Martinez F, Nedelcu AM, Reyes-Prieto A, and DR Smith. 2017. The plastid genomes of nonphotosynthetic algae are not so small after all. Communicative & Integrative Biology 10:1, e1283080. Figueroa-Martinez F, Nedelcu AM,
Smith DR, and A Reyes-Prieto. 2017. The plastid genome of Polytoma
uvella is the largest known among non-photosynthetic algae and plants
and reflects contrasting evolutionary paths to nonphotosynthetic
lifestyles. Plant Physiology 173: 932-943. Nedelcu AM and AF Caulin. 2016. The evolution of cancer suppressor mechanisms. In Maley CC (ed) Frontiers in Cancer Research: Evolutionary Foundations, Revolutionary Directions . Pp. 217-246. Springer.
Lang BF and AM Nedelcu. 2012. Plastid genomes of algae. In Bock R and Knoop V (eds) Genomics of Chloroplasts and Mitochondria. Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration Series. Vol 35. pp. 59-87. Springer. Burger G and AM Nedelcu. 2012. Mitochondrial genomes of algae. In Bock R and Knoop V (eds) Genomics of Chloroplasts and Mitochondria. Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration Series. Vol. 35. pp. 127-157. Springer.
Nedelcu AM. 2012. Evolution of multicellularity. In:
eLS (Encyclopedia of Life Sciences) 2012, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd:
Chichester http://www.els.net/ [DOI:10.1002/9780470015902.a0023665]. Nedelcu AM. 2012. On the evolution of self during the transition to multicellularity. In Carlos Lopez-Larrea (ed) Self and Non-self. pp. 14-30. Landes Biosciences.
RECENT PRESENTATIONS (go to Meetings): The
role of selection in shaping cancer's evolutionary potential:
therapeutic implications. 2018. 2nd Joint Congress on Evolutionary
Biology, Montpellier, France.
Environmental stress, antagonistic pleiotropy, and the evolution of somatic cell differentiation. University of Dundee, Scotland (UK) (invited seminar). 2016 Exploiting trade-offs to expose cancer’s evolutionary vulnerabilities. 3rd International Biannual Conference on Evolution and Cancer. Center for Evolution and Cancer, UCSF, San Francisco, USA. 2015 (invited Plenary) Gene co-option, antagonistic pleiotropy, and the evolution of somatic cell differentiation in Volvox carteri. 3rd International Volvox Conference. Cambridge, UK. 2015 Gene co-option, antagonistic pleiotropy, and the evolution of somatic cell differentiation. ICREA Conference on the Evolution of Multicellularity. Barcelona, Spain. 2013 (invited) The SAND domain and the evolution of complex multicellularity. 2nd International Volvox Conference. Fredericton, NB, Canada Understanding ancient legacies to expose and exploit cancer vulnerabilities. 2nd International Biannual Conference on Evolution and Cancer. Center for Evolution and Cancer, UCSF, San Francisco, USA. 2013 To be or not to be multicellular. NESCent (National Evolutionary Synthesis Center) Catalysis Meeting on the Evolutionary Origins of Multicellularity. USA. 2013 (invited). Stress and the evolution of reproductive altruism. Bionergetics and the major evolutionary transitions. Royal Society Kavli Centre. UK. 2012 Evolutionary vulnerabilities in cancer: Insights from unicellular lineages. Evolution, development and cancer. Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science. Arizona State University, Phoenix. USA. 2012 Evo-Volvo: Using volvocine algae to address evolutionary questions. 1st International Volvox Meeting. Biosphere 2, Arizona, USA. 2011. Evolutionary vulnerabilities in cancer: Insights from unicellular lineages. 1st Conference on Evolution and Cancer. Center for Evolution and Cancer. UCSF, San Francisco, USA. 2011 Stress responses and life history evolution in the unicellular world. Workshop on Environmental changes and the evolution of marine ecosystems. French National Agency for Research (ANR) and TARA OCEANS – Atelier de Reflexion Prospective. Stazione Zoologica A. Dohrn, Naples, Italy. 2011.
RECENT FUNDING
NSF
Collaborative Research: De Novo Evolution of Multicellularity in a
Unicellular Volvocine Alga (Co-PI; with Matthew Herron and Frank
Rosenzweig, U. Montana; William Ratcliff, Georgia Inst. Tech., USA)
(2015-2019) NSERC Discovery
Grant: Cellular stress responses in the evolution of multicellular complexity (2013-2019) National Center for Genome Resources (USA) and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Marine Microbiology Initiative: Transcriptome sequencing of marine eukaryotic algae (Co-PI; with David R. Smith, UBC, Canada) (2011) NSERC Discovery Grant: The genetic basis for the evolution of altruism during the transition to multicellularity (2008-2013) NSF: Life-history trade-offs and the evolution of multicellularity (Co-PI; PI: Richard E. Michod, U Arizona, USA) (2008-2009) NSERC Discovery grant: "An alternative framework for understanding evolutionary transitions: the green algal group as a model-system" (2003-2008) |
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