Lets talk about antimicrobial resistance! Special guest Roland Cooper will visit us to talk about: falciparum malaria and chloroquine resistance. Here are your two readings for next week. Malaria Chloroquine Resistance Hastings These two readings are on eReserve as “Plasmodium falciparum chloroquine resistance gene” and “Hastings – A requiem for […]
Some take away points from the cancer lecture: Cancer evolution that Dr. Forrest described is different from evolution of other traits. Cell level evolution: Evolution in the computer modeling of Dr. Forrest is selection on the human cell level. It is not evolution on the individual or population level. For […]
Writing project (10/13/08) Choose one: a) Dengue fever immobilizes its adult victims. Does immobilization help or hurt the transmission of the virus? How is dengue different from the common cold? What are three ways that pathgens can be transmitted? How does the way something is transmitted affect its virulence? b) […]
Here are the readings for 10/6/08. Kathryn Hanley PhD will be visiting from NMSU. There is no writing project due for this date. But there will be a lot to read! ******UPDATE***** You may also access these readings on eReserve. Click on the eReserve link on the right if you […]
all-stings-considered Click above for the lecture handout for 9/22/08 Articles for the “journal club” are slightly different from those posted in the syllabus. They include: Effects of Artificial Light function of the appendix evolution-and-hypertension factor V Leiden benefit psychosis and infection For 9/29/08 the class will divide into 5 groups. […]
Dr. Wolf’s Lecture additional fever reading #1 fever-and-survival
From the syllabus: Writing project (due next session): Some illnesses make you feel bad, but you can still go about your business: e.g upper respiratory infections caused by rhinoviruses. Other infections wipe you out and you can’t get out of bed. Is it in the rhinovirus’s best interest to keep […]
The subject of the next lecture 9/22/08 will be evolutionary considerations of venoms, toxins, and antibodies to these molecules. What is the difference between a venom and a toxin? Are biologic toxins different from organic toxins? Who benefits from a toxin? (not including Phillip Morris 🙂 ) What if a “toxin” actually […]
Should a fever be treated? To answer that question, we should consider whether fever has a function. There are (at least) three possibilities for the function of fever. The first is that fever has no function – it may be a byproduct or an epiphenomenon of some other process. The […]
What are the consequences of caveman genes interacting with the modern environment… radically different food, new technology, petro-chemicals, artificial light, drugs? Novelty and extreme environments often cause disease. Perhaps we are optimized for a Pleistocene environment. Lecture tomorrow will explain how a variety of illnesses occur because of our caveman […]
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