
Amy Boddy
@amy_boddy
Associate Prof @ UCSB | Life history theory, evolution, cancer & microchimerism | First Gen | she/her
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🚨Come work with us!! The Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative is hiring an Administrative Coordinator UC Santa Barbara Help advance women's health, steps from the ocean.🧠🌊Details at: tinyurl.com/bowers-wbhi & don't hesitate to direct Q's to✉️[email protected] #JobOpening

During pregnancy, fetal cells invade maternal tissues and can persist for decades, but their effect on maternal health remains largely obscure. To learn more, Amy Boddy UCSB Anthropology and Thomas Kroneis Med Uni Graz started the Microchimerism, Human Health & Evolution Project project. bit.ly/4bTJhGw

Fun article about our ongoing adventures investigating somatic evolution across species Cambridge University cam.ac.uk/stories/dr-ale…



5 years ago, on the heels of 28andMe, our team designed a new precision imaging experiment: scanning an individual’s brain throughout her entire pregnancy. We are excited to share that these findings are out today in Nature Neuroscience! nature.com/articles/s4159…

The broader Maternal Brain Project reflects a dream team of scientists who are reimagining how science is done by blurring the boundaries between labs, disciplines, and borders: neuromaternal Magdalena Martínez-García PhD🦋 Nina Miolane 🦋 @ninamiolane.bsky.social Ina Stelzer Winnie Orchard Liz Chrastil Amy Boddy Join us!

🚨New pub! Female chimpanzees form spatial associations that reflect social preference and selective social tolerance. 🙊🙉 Kibale Chimpanzee Project @zeppypearl Nicole (Nic) Thompson González @gnataliacamargo 🙏 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🦍Postdoc in Somatic Evolutionary Genomics🦍 Join my team GeneticsCambridge on a pioneering project mapping somatic mutations across primates! 🌍Collaborate with experts UC Berkeley & Wellcome Sanger Institute. 🔍Experience in genomics? Apply by Nov 16! Details: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48757/


It is as Darwin said it would be: the more we look, the more we find the commonalities that bind us to so much of the life on this planet. The war on cancer isn't just decades old—it's millions of years old. Extremely thankful to have the team that we have Arizona Cancer Evolution Center University of Arizona Cancer Center


I'm so excited to be able to share this new Cancer Discovery paper by Zach Compton, Tara Harrison, Marc Tollis, Joshua Schiffman, Athena Aktipis, Lisa Abegglen, Carlo Maley, Amy Boddy, and colleagues!


Cancer Discovery Zach Compton Tara Harrison Marc Tollis Joshua Schiffman Athena Aktipis Carlo Maley Amy Boddy Read more here: doi.org/10.1158/2159-8…

Pleased to share the results of a massive years-long effort to catalogue how non-human, non-model animals deal with cancer. Zach Compton Zach Compton cut his teeth with this project, and fared better than well I'd say! aacr.org/about-the-aacr…



Cancer prevalence across vertebrate species decreases with gestation time, may increase with adult mass medicalxpress.com/news/2024-10-c… via Medical Xpress




The January issue of Cancer Discovery is now online! The cover features Cancer Prevalence Across Vertebrates by Zach Compton, Tara Harrison, Marc Tollis, Joshua Schiffman, Athena Aktipis, Lisa M Abegglen, Carlo Maley, Amy Boddy, and colleagues - read that & more: aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscover…
