Mapping nature's solutions to cancer and excavating novel disease pathways using thousands of species

You are cordially invited to a seminar of the Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine

"Mapping nature's solutions to cancer and excavating novel disease pathways using thousands of species"

By: Prof. Yuval Tabach

Head, The Deep Genomic Lab

The Institute For Medical Research-Israel-Canada

The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School

Organisms have evolved over millions of years through endless struggles for survival. Genes and pathways emerged, were altered or lost, resulting in the evolution of extraordinary traits.

These include resistance to cancer that recurrently evolved in different clades. In addition, the function of most human genes is still unclear, however many can be grouped into distinct clusters with tight correlated evolution across hundreds of species.

Each of these genes’ clusters strongly hints of a functional association between the genes and, in many cases, the association is unexplored.

In my talk, I will demonstrate how we can systematically annotate novel diseases and cancer genes, identify new drugs, map cancer resistance signatures, and maps novel pathways.

The Seminar will take place on

Sunday, March 27th, 2022 at 13:15 PM

At Sackler Faculty of Medicine Building, Room 927

Host: 

Avraham Ashkenazi, PhD

ashkenaziavi@tauex.tau.ac.il    https://www.ashkenazilab.com

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