Emergency Physician, Educator, Researcher, interested in the microbiome, evolution, and medicine
Special lecturer Miriam Barlow PhD (of UC Merced, California) will be here for a special lecture next week 10/19/10 in Castetter Hall Room 55 at 5:30pm. The topic of October 19th is antibiotic resistance. We will explore how pathogens evolve resistance to antimicrobial agents and how medical professionals and researchers […]
Next tuesday, we are going to discuss the evolution of virulence, using the mosquito borne dengue fever as an example. (Handout and readings are at the end of this post) The dengue virus causes dengue fever, aka breakbone fever. As the name suggests, sufferers of breakbone fever are typically laid […]
Tomorrow we will talk about the consequences of potential gene-environment mismatch. It is thought that most of human evolution, and thus selection for human genes has occurred during the Pleistocene, an epoch that lasted from about 1 million years ago and ended 12 thousand years ago. Of course we live […]
Handout for Tuesday’s lecture: High Altitude Cultures Reading for tuesday: Beall Read also: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/pf/92910801.html and http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100513143453.htm and Genes at high altitude
Groups 4,5, and 6 PRESENT THIS TUESDAY (SEPTEMBER 28th). Since this is a group effort, I would recommend that each individual in the group take part in part of the presentation. Powerpoint is not necessary. Most of the articles have more than one idea or topic that can be discussed. […]
Sickle Cell trait is an extremely common blood polymorphism. What explains sickle cell’s high frequency in sub-saharan Africa? Reading: Human Red Blood Cell Polymorphisms (Click on the full text icon, and then the pdf link. Let me know if you have trouble and I will email you the pdf) Lecture […]
Fever handout Mandatory reading: fever-and-survival One of the students pointed out that fever seems to work in synergy with mechanisms that reduce the availability of free iron. Iron sequestration is important in reducing bacterial growth. Fever + reduced iron =reduced bacterial growth. Optional Reading about this topic: Fever and Reduced […]
Here is the handout for the topic of this lecture and next lecture: Morning Sickness and Menopause Readings: (Make sure you read the ones with *. The others are optional.) This link describes some hypotheses for menopause, in addition to the ones we talked about in class: Kaplan Menopause Hypothesis * […]
Points Earned (out of 5) Description of Merit 0 Student missed the point: failed to relate topic to evolutionary biology; failed to relate topic to medicine; presented only subjective opinions (without supporting evidence); failed to relate topic to assigned readings; failed to relate topic to information presented in lecture. 1 […]
Here is the powerpoint handout from tuesday: aging Readings for next week: age-old-question Evolution of aging inflammation and aging: click on the pdf icon in this link Writing project for next week: Consider this phrase from last week’s reading assignment (Nesse and Stearns, 2008): “Bodies are vulnerable to disease – […]
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