May 14, 2009

4-6 PM

Cannon Room, HMS Quad

 

 

Speaker:                                  Martin Nowak, PhD

 

Title:                                        “Somatic evolutionary dynamics of cancer”

 

Question:                                How do rates of mutation, selective pressure, and spatial configuration of cells in tissues affect the development of cancer?

 

Quantitative Method:               Graph theory and game theory.

 

Medical Impact:                       Understanding how cells evolve to cancer suggests new treatments and new ways to monitor existing treatments.

 

Suggested Reading:               http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~ped/people/faculty/publications_nowak/PNAS.06.pdf.

 

Speaker URL:                         http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~ped/people/faculty/