Outreach
Our lab's educational and arts programs
Treat Cancer Like a Boss!
Can you do better than the standard of treatment in oncology
We wrote a simulation game in Netlogo to illustrate the challenges of treating cancer, when our therapies often just kill the sensitive cells and leave behind mutant cells that are resistant to our therapies. All you need to do is download the free Netlogo platform and then download the game here and unzip it. Open the game from within Netlogo and try your hand at curing breast cancer. Instructions are in the Info tab.
Thorny Issue: Is It Cancer?
Can plants get cancer? We think so...
Cancer has been defined by how it appears in animals – a tumor must break through the basement membrane of a tissue to be called a cancer. But plants don’t have basement membranes. When we ask how a phenomenon appears in different species, it gives us a new view of that phenomenon.
Animal Battle
When is it better to be a mouse?
Marc Tollis, Amy Boddy, Valerie Harris and Pamela Winfrey joined forces to create "Animal Battle", a game where animals with different life histories survive (or not) in a variety of environments.
The Nature of Cancer Cells
Cancers are complex ecologies of different cell types and structures.
We teamed up with Prof. Susan Biner, a professor of ceramics at ASU, to develop a sculpture inspired by the complex ecology of cancers. Her work is now installed on the first floor of Biodesign Building B at ASU. See more pictures and read about it here.
