Microbiome in Surgery
John Alverdy from the University of Chicago describes the problem of health care associated infections and how interventions aimed at the microbiome in surgery can help. Worth a look (good production values too!):
Special lecture Jeremy Taylor Feb 2nd
Jeremy Taylor, science writer and award winning BBC producer and director, will be in Albuquerque on February 2-3, 2016 to discuss evolutionary medicine and his new book, Body by Darwin: How Evolution Shapes Our Health and Transforms Medicine. The talk is entitled “Your body by Darwin” and will include compelling […]
Sleep
These are some cool data. I am currently gathering data on a small sample of emergency physicians to determine the relationship between sleep, overnight shift work and mood, among other things. We have not analyzed those data yet, but in a larger sample (from a commercial source), it appears that […]
2016 Evolutionary Medicine ISEMPH Meeting
2016 promises to be a very exciting year for evolutionary medicine. I will be writing a fair bit about this exciting meeting: the second annual meeting of ISEMPH, the International Society for Evolution Medicine and Public Health. Register now, and submit an abstract! Call for Abstracts: 2016 International Society for […]
Final projects
I hope everybody enjoys Thanksgiving! For myself, I have a lot to be grateful for, including the privilege of teaching this class. Here is what I will be looking for in your presentations: Try to spend at least 50%, preferably more, of your time talking about ultimate causation, evolutionary considerations, […]
Pathogen virulence
Why do some infections kill us, while others are hardly noticed? From Baba Brinkman’s Parasite Wars: “For the pathogens, that’s why some are deadly serious And others are mild: it’s the evolution of virulence…We got the pattern figured out. Some can only spread if they keep you walkin’ around Others […]
Special Guest Katie Hinde PhD 11/17/15
Title: Milk in Evolutionary and Clinical Perspectives Castetter 258. Time 5:30pm Why Mammals Suck: Mother’s Milk and Infant Development The maternal environment, physiological during fetal life and behavioral during infancy, has well-established influences on infant development. However among mammals physiological investment in the form of mother’s milk continues postnatally but […]
Evolution on hospital rounds
A nice account of Andrew Read’s experience working with Infectious disease expert Robert Woods in the hospital at the University of Michigan. What happens when an evolutionary biologist goes on hospital rounds? Read also by the same authors: Clinical evolutionary medicine
Developmental programming and the predictive adaptive response for Tuesday 11/10
Developmental programming is thought to be a source of many adult diseases, including obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. The notion that early life experiences, including nutrient transfer from the mother in utero, can anticipate future environments and also shape the risk of later adult diseases has been termed the predictive […]
Cancer from a tapeworm? True.
Amazing story. Read on here. http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1505892#t=article
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