Emergency Physician, Educator, Researcher, interested in the microbiome, evolution, and medicine
Roland Cooper PhD of Dominican University has spent the last several summers in Kampala Uganda studying resistance patterns to the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. He will be visiting UNM on November 1st to discuss his work on Artemisinin Resistance in Plasmodium falciparum. Read his recent article Lack of Artemisinin resistance […]
This Friday, October 28th, don’t miss Elies Bik’s special invited lecture for the University of New Mexico Center for Evolutionary and Theoretical Immunology and for Evolutionary Medicine students. She will be discussing her recent work on marine mammal microbiomes. How do you sample marine mammal microbiomes anyway? Find out on […]
Special Lecture – Amy Boddy PhD Amy Boddy PhD will be giving a special invited lecture for Joe Alcock’s evolutionary medicine class and the UNM community. Dr. Boddy studies evolutionary applications of human health and disease, using genomics, computational biology and evolutionary theory. Her recent work has focused on cooperation […]
Why do we sleep? How much is enough? What happens when we don’t get enough. These questions will be the topic of next Tuesday’s October 18th Evolutionary Medicine class. Sleep is one of the last frontiers in the study of lifestyle-related risk factors for chronic diseases. For instance, it has […]
I spoke last week to Melissa Franklin, who wrote “Nutrient signaling, evolutionary origins of the immune modulating effects of fat” with me and Chris Kuzawa. She now teaches evolutionary medicine at Central New Mexico Community College here in Albuquerque. We talk about nutrient signaling, diet, and teaching evolutionary medicine in […]
Tuesday October 11th, Katherine Amato PhD will be giving a special invited lecture for the evolutionary medicine class. Location: Main Campus, Castetter 107. Time: 5:30pm The topic of her talk: Microbial variation and host plasticity: New perspectives on health and evolution in humans and non-human primates. Dr. Amato is an […]
The brain at its limits… In this EvolutionMedicine ‘cast, Joe Alcock interviews Darryl Macias about how the brain fails us at high altitude and other dangers of the mountain environment. Darryl discusses his recent expedition to Shishapangma to retrieve the bodies of his climbing partners and friends Alex Lowe and […]
These recent publications relating to evolutionary medicine will be discussed on October 4th. (September 27th we are discussing the Paleo diets and Paleo delusions.) Group A. Why do humans drink alcohol? Carrigan et al. PNAS 2015 Hominids adapted to metabolize ethanol long before human-directed fermentation. Group B. Why do elephants […]
It is thought that much human evolution occurred during the Pleistocene – 2.8 million to 12 thousand years ago. What are the consequences of genes optimized for a Pleistocene environment now expressed in the modern environment? We have new technology, petro-chemicals, artificial light, recreational drugs. In particular, we consume radically […]
When to treat and when to leave alone… In this week’s class, we will explore the idea of normal in medicine. What is normal? Can the concept of adaptation help guide what to do with an “abnormal finding”? We confront these questions all the time in the hospital. Now it […]
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