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SUMMARY:The genomes of transmissible cancers - Prof. Elizabeth Murchison (
 University of Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Samantha Noel
DESCRIPTION:Transmissible cancers are malignant clonal lineages that survi
 ve beyond the deaths of their original hosts by the transfer of living can
 cer cells between hosts. In mammals\, transmissible cancers are known in o
 nly two species: dogs and Tasmanian devils. The canine transmissible vener
 eal tumour is a sexually transmitted cancer that manifests as genital tumo
 urs and which first arose in a single dog that lived several thousand year
 s ago. Tasmanian devils are marsupial carnivores that are affected by two 
 transmissible facial cancers\, both of which are transmitted by biting. I 
 will discuss recent work using genetics to further decipher the origins an
 d evolution of these remarkable long-lived cancer lineages.\n
LOCATION:Please get in touch at compbiomphil@maths.cam.ac.uk for joining i
 nformation.
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