Selected Presentations:

2018.

The role of selection in shaping cancer's evolutionary potential: therapeutic implications. 2nd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology, Montpellier, France.

TBD. The cancer mosaic, traits, strategy and adaptation workshop, Montpellier, France.

2016.

Environmental stress, antagonistic pleiotropy, and the evolution of somatic cell differentiation. (Seminar). University of Dundee, Scotland, UK

2015.

Exploiting trade-offs to expose cancer’s evolutionary vulnerabilities. (invited Plenary). 3rd International Biannual Conference on Evolution and Cancer. Center for Evolution and Cancer, UCSF, San Francisco, USA.

Gene co-option, antagonistic pleiotropy, and the evolution of somatic cell differentiation in Volvox carteri. 3rd International Volvox Conference. Cambridge, UK.

2013.

Gene co-option, antagonistic pleiotropy, and the evolution of somatic cell differentiation. (invited). ICREA Conference on the Evolution of Multicellularity. Barcelona, Spain.

Understanding ancient legacies to expose and exploit cancer vulnerabilities.(invited). 2nd International Biannual Conference on Evolution and Cancer. Center for Evolution and Cancer, UCSF, San Francisco, USA.

To be or not to be multicellular. Catalysis Meeting on the Evolutionary Origins of Multicellularity. (invited). NESCent (National Evolutionary Synthesis Center). USA.

Co-option of stress responses during evolutionary transitions (invited). Cooperation and Major Evolutionary Transitions. The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. U California Santa Barbara. USA.

2012.

Stress and the evolution of reproductive altruism (invited). Bionergetics and the major evolutionary transitions. Royal Society Kavili Centre. UK. 

Evolutionary vulnerabilities in cancer: Insights from unicellular lineages (invited). Evolution, development and cancer. Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science. Arizona State University, Phoenix. USA.

2011.

Evo-Volvo: Using volvocine algae to address evolutionary questions.  The First International Volvox Meeting. Biosphere 2, Arizona, USA.

Stress responses and life history evolution in the unicellular world (invited). Workshop on Environmental changes and the evolution of marine ecosystems. French National Agency for Research (ANR) and TARA OCEANS – Atelier de Reflexion Prospective. Stazione Zoologica A. Dohrn, Naples, Italy. 

Evolutionary vulnerabilities in cancer: Insights from unicellular lineages (invited). 1^st Conference on Evolution and Cancer. Center for Evolution and Cancer. UCSF, San Francisco, USA. 

2010.

Co-opting environmentally-induced responses for group advantage (invited). Biocomplexity XI Workshop. The Evolution of Cooperation: Paradoxes of Collectivity & Individuality. Bloomington, IN, USA. 

General acclimation responses co-opted for somatic cell differentiation in Volvox carteri. 14^th International Conference on the Cell and Molecular Biology of Chlamydomonas, Norton, MA, USA.

            2009. 

            The genetic basis for the evolution of reproductive altruism. 12^th Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB). Torino, Italy.

           The mechanistic basis for the evolution of reproductive altruism. The Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity 1^st International Conference: Group as individual in social dynamics. Tempe, AZ, USA.

2008.

Chlamydomonas as a model-system for programmed cell death research.  13^th International Conference on the Cell and Molecular Biology of Chlamydomonas, Hyeres, France.

2007.

To die, or not to die? Programmed cell death in Volvox carteri (invited).  Volvox Symposium, St. Louis, MO, USA (invited)

Early evolution of the eukaryotic programmed cell death machinery revealed by comparative genomics. Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Meeting, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

2006.

Sex and programmed cell death as p53-like-mediated stress responses in Volvox and Chlamydomonas. 12^th International Conference on the Cell and Molecular Biology of Chlamydomonas, Portland, Oregon, USA

The evolutionary origin of an altruistic gene. Annual Meeting for the Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE): Genomes, Evolution and Bioinformatics, Tempe, Arizona, USA.

2002.

Evolvability and individuality during the unicellular-multicellular  transition in volvocalean green algae (invited).  UK EPSERC Network on evolvability in biological & software systems; Symposium on Evolvability and Individuality, St. Albans, Hertfordshire,UK

Stress, reactive oxygen species and DNA   damage as signal for sex: evolutionary implications (invited).  VIth International  Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology: Biodiversity in the information age. Patras, Greece