PROGRAMME
11.00-11.15 UiO Rector Svein Stølen and CEES Chair Kjetill S. Jakobsen
Opening remarks.
11.15-12.00. Professor Charles Swanton
Cancer evolution and immune evasion: Challenges and opportunities
Francis Crick Institute & UCL Cancer Institute, London, UK
Link to Swanton's profile page.
12.00-12.15. Professor Nils Chr. Stenseth
Announcing the winner of the Darwin Price.
12.15-12.45 Break
12.45-13.30 Professor Felicia Keesing
Lecture title: An evolutionary perspective on the ecology of infectious diseases
Bard College, New York, USA.
Link to Keesing's profile page.
13.30-14.15 Professor Bruce Levin
A Darwinian perspective on adaptive immunity, senescence, and why we get cancers
Emory University, USA.
Link to Levin's profile page.
14.15-14.20 Professor Kjetill S. Jakobsen
Closing remarks.
More information
For abstracts and more information about the speakers, visit the Darwin Day main webpage at CEES.
How to attend the event
- The event will be held in English using the video conferencing tool Zoom. Link to the event will also be provided at this webpage.
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