Events

Join the Biology SAC to hear professors speak about their educational and career experiences. Feel free to come with your questions! 

Biology Seminar, Saul Lecture: Dr. Vincent Lynch, University of Buffalo

Why do we get sick, old, and die?

Theoretically there is no reason organisms cannot live forever. However, except for maybe one animal, every thing that has ever lived, and will live, will get old, sick, and die.  But if immortality is possible, why hasn’t it evolved?

Biology Seminar, Saul Lecture - Dr. Vincent Lynch, University of Buffalo

Cancer, aging, Peto’s paradox

Evolutionary theory predicts that large animals, because they have more cells than smaller ones should have higher cancer prevalence than the small ones; similarly long-lived animals, which have a long time to acquire cancer causing mutations should have higher cancer prevalence than short lived ones but do not. In fact the cancer prevalence in mammals averages 50-10%. What mechanisms underlie this apparent disconnect between theory and observation?

From Single Cells to Satellites: Genomics-informed virus-microbe ecology across scales

Julia Brown, Senior Research Scientist, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences