All are welcome to attend this research presentation on this Friday, June 28 from 9:30 to 10:30 at McDougall Hall, Room 328

Abstract: In this talk we review mathematical models of cancer evolution. Mutation and selection events in an “undated” evolutionary process create a dynamics that leads to different stages of tumor progression. The models are examples of the quasi-species and replicator equation framed for cancer evolution in the presence of genetic and epigenetic heterogeneities. We address the problem of drug resistance in the context of cancer evolution at the end of the talk.