Selected Presentations:

Nedelcu AM. 2012. TBD. Bionergetics and the major evolutionary transitions. Royal Society Kavili Centre. UK.

Nedelcu AM. 2012. Evolutionary vulnerabilities in cancer: Insights from unicellular lineages (invited). Evolution, development and cancer. Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science. Arizona State University, Phoenix. USA

Nedelcu AM. 2011. Evo-Volvo: Using volvocine algae to address evolutionary questions.  The First International Volvox Meeting. Biosphere 2, Arizona, USA.

Nedelcu AM. 2011. Stress responses and life history evolution in the unicellular world (invited). Workshop on Environmental changes and the evolution of marine ecosystems. French National Agency for Research (ANR) and TARA OCEANS – Atelier de Reflexion Prospective. Stazione Zoologica A. Dohrn, Naples, Italy.

Nedelcu AM. 2011. Evolutionary vulnerabilities in cancer: Insights from unicellular lineages (invited). 1^st Conference on Evolution and Cancer. Center for Evolution and Cancer. UCSF, San Francisco, USA.

Nedelcu AM. 2010. Co-opting environmentally-induced responses for group advantage (invited). Biocomplexity XI Workshop. The Evolution of Cooperation: Paradoxes of Collectivity & Individuality. Bloomington, IN, USA.

Nedelcu AM. 2010. General acclimation responses co-opted for somatic cell differentiation in Volvox carteri. 14^th International Conference on the Cell and Molecular Biology of Chlamydomonas, Norton, MA, USA.

           Nedelcu AM. 2009.  The genetic basis for the evolution of reproductive altruism. 12^th Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB). Torino, Italy.

          Nedelcu AM. 2009.  The mechanistic basis for the evolution of reproductive altruism. The Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity 1^st International Conference: Group as individual in social dynamics. Tempe, AZ, USA.

Nedelcu AM. 2008. Chlamydomonas as a model-system for programmed cell death research.  13^th International Conference on the Cell and Molecular Biology of Chlamydomonas, Hyeres, France.

Nedelcu AM. 2007. To die, or not to die? Programmed cell death in Volvox carteri (invited).  Volvox Symposium, St. Louis, MO, USA 

Nedelcu AM 2007. Early evolution of the eukaryotic programmed cell death machinery revealed by comparative genomics. Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Meeting, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Nedelcu AM. 2006. Sex and programmed cell death as p53-like-mediated stress responses in Volvox and Chlamydomonas. 12^th International Conference on the Cell and Molecular Biology of Chlamydomonas, Portland, Oregon, USA

Nedelcu AM and RE Michod. 2006. The evolutionary origin of an altruistic gene. Annual Meeting for the Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE): Genomes, Evolution and Bioinformatics, Tempe, Arizona, USA.

Nedelcu AM. 2002. Evolvability and individuality during the unicellular-multicellular  transition in volvocalean green algae (invited).  UK EPSERC Network on evolvability in biological & software systems; Symposium on Evolvability and Individuality, St. Albans, Hertfordshire,UK.

Nedelcu AM and RE Michod 2002.  Stress, reactive oxygen species and DNA   damage as signal for sex: evolutionary implications (invited).  VIth International  Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology: Biodiversity in the information age. Patras, Greece

Nedelcu AM and RW Lee.  1998.  Concerted modes and tempos of mitochondrial and chloroplast genome evolution in Chlamydomonas.  12^th Meeting of the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA.

Nedelcu AM.  1996.  Fragmented and scrambled mitochondrial rRNA coding regions among green algae: A model for their origin and evolution.  Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Evolutionary Biology Program, Student Meeting, Halifax, NS, Canada.

Nedelcu AM, DF Spencer, EM Denovan-Wright, and RW Lee.  1996.  Evolution and phylogenetic distribution of discontinuous mitochondrial ribosomal rRNAs among green algae.  First European Phycological Congress, Cologne, Germany.