Club EvMed Posts

Early life environments shape the development of the microbiome, which in turn influences human biology and health outcomes. Since physiological development relies on microbiome maturation…

Follow-up studies of individuals exposed in utero to the Dutch Hunger Winter (1944-45) are often cited as evidence that prenatal nutrition has lasting deleterious effects on adult…

The flashiest examples of parasite manipulation are those that kill, dramatic behavioral changes that hasten host death and ensure transmission. But what about the quieter…

Many cancer drugs give only a few months of benefit to patients. The reason for this is the evolution of drug resistance in the cancer.…

Are psychiatric conditions linked to Western, industrialized lifestyles, akin to other “diseases of civilization,” or have they always been part of human variation? Are psychiatric…

Ethanol derives from the fermentation of simple sugars, and fermentative yeasts are ubiquitous within terrestrial ecosystems. Animals that routinely consume sugar-rich fruits and nectar thus outinely…

Understanding how ​past genetic adaptations shape contemporary human health is a central focus in evolutionary medicine. In this talk, I will present recent research with…

Put the term “evolution” into google image search and most that comes back is a version of the “March of Progress”, an inference of which…

Viruses differ in the number and types of host tissues in which they replicate. Systemically replicating viruses such as measles infect cells and tissues throughout…

Climate change is making extreme weather more extreme, with consequences for infectious disease dynamics. We discuss our efforts to understand the impact of one category…