Events

Date: 25 March 2026   Time: 14:00 - 15:00

Location: MB-503 and teams (see website for link)

The Bukkuri Lab develops and applies mathematical and philosophical methods to pose and address questions at the interface of cancer, evolutionary ecology, and social science. In this talk, I will focus on our cancer evolutionary ecology theme. I will describe how our fundamental investigations into the nature of evolvability led us to create new mathematical tools to model eco-evolutionary dynamics in structured populations. These frameworks inspired an entirely new class of therapeutic approaches called "life history enlightened treatment strategies" (LHETs). Alongside our experimental and computational studies, this culminated in an approved clinical trial for regional prostate cancer, with potential applications being explored for other diseases. Time permitting, I will discuss ongoing work on cancer hauntology, a novel framework that draws on Derrida's hauntology, ghost criminology, and biosemiotics to probe the semiotic corruption that accompanies cancer initiation and progression.