College invites public to attend presentation about the life and death of human cells Jan. 26

December 18, 2015

Interested in the study of human genetics in relation to cancer?

Please join Anoka-Ramsey Community College faculty, staff and students to welcome presenter Monica Akre, PhD Candidate-Van Ness Lab, Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology and Genetics, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, at the college’s 26th annual event in support of science:

Within Each Cell: Life and Death

Jan. 26, 2016

7 to 8 pm

Cambridge Campus G202

Free and open to the public

Akre has taken several career detours before arriving on her current path of graduate student in Molecular Genetics. For several years, she taught science. For six years she also worked in the Mayo Clinic's Cytogenetics Laboratory, where encouraged to transition to research and go to graduate school. Currently in her fourth year of study at the University of Minnesota, she studies drug responsiveness in Multiple Myeloma.

Akre has been published and presented numerous times for the institutions such as the University of Minnesota and the Mayo Clinic.

"The power to create an entire human is contained within each cell,” said Akre. “With great power, of course, comes great responsibility, and cells occasionally wield their power with the grave consequence of cancer."

Multiple Myeloma is a cancer of the blood cells that make antibodies.

For more information about this and other public events at Anoka-Ramsey Community College, visit AnokaRamsey.edu.