Upcoming Events

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  • Biology Graduate School Panel

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

    McCardell Bicentennial Hall 317

  • Biology Seminar Series - The quest for, and impossibility of, immortality

    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?

    McCardell Bicentennial Hall 220

    Open to the Public

  • Biology Seminar Series - On the (im)possibility of elephants

    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?

    McCardell Bicentennial Hall 220

    Open to the Public