All of our previous Club EvMeds are listed below by year. For full descriptions and recordings, you can browse our Archives or click the link for the specific event page below.
2023
| Date | Title | Speaker | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2/8/23 | Evolution of diagnostic-resistant malaria in Africa | Jonathan Parr | x |
| 2/21/23 | Physiological implications of de novo gene emergence in health and disease | Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis | x |
2022
| Date | Title | Speaker | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1/11/22 | Control system failures and evolutionary medicine | Robert Perlman (University of Chicago) and Randolph Nesse (Arizona State University) | x |
| 1/18/22 | A Natural History of the Future | Rob Dunn (North Carolina State University) | x |
| 2/10/22 | Candidate gene studies have taught us little about trait genetics but a lot about the fallibility of the scientific process | Matt Keller (University of Colorado, Boulder) | x |
| 2/24/22 | Evolutionary medicine helps explain regional differences in pandemic dynamics: immunity, symbiosis, and COVID-19 | William Parker (WPLab, Inc. and XPara Mutual Helminths) and Dawit Wolday (Mekelle University) | x |
| 3/9/22 | Spatial profiling links genetic diversity to immune infiltration in glioblastoma | Michalina Janiszewska (Scripps Research Institute) | x |
| 3/24/22 | Sequential antibiotic therapy as a potent strategy against bacterial pathogens | Hinrich Schulenburg and Aditi Batra (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology) | x |
| 4/7/22 | The evolutionary epidemiology of infectious diseases | Troy Day (Queen's University) | x |
| 4/25/22 | Assessing the risk of vaccine-driven virulence evolution in SARS-CoV-2 | Jessica Metcalf and Ian Miller (Princeton) | x |
| 5/26/22 | Moffitt's Evolutionary Tumor Board | Damon Reed, Christine Chung, Joel Brown, and Mark Robertson-Tessi (Moffitt Cancer Center) | x |
| 6/9/22 | The mechanisms behind Peto’s paradox: why cancer risk doesn’t scale with lifespan | Orsolya Vincze (Centre for Ecological Research, Hungary), Mathieu Giraudeau (CNRS-La Rochelle Université), and Alex Cagan (Wellcome Sanger Institute) | x |
| 6/15/22 | The Normal and the Pathological Revisted | Paul Griffiths (University of Sydney) | x |
| 9/28/22 | On the origins of SARS-CoV-2 | Michael Worobey and Lorena Malpica Serrano (University of Arizona) | x |
| 10/10/22 | Student Spotlight: Cancer modeling and virus identification | Anuraag Bukkuri and Elise Paietta | x |
| 10/24/22 | Does habitual squatting ease childbirth? | Gillian Bentley, John Gorman, Charlotte Roberts | x |
| 11/2/22 | A tale of two sugars: the epic human story of amylose and lactose | Christina Warinner, Irina Velsko, Alexander Hübner | x |
| 11/17/22 | Intermittent fasting in the dark: metabolic adaptation and resilience in cavefish | Nicolas Rohner | x |
| 12/8/22 | Conflict and cooperation in human microbiomes | Siobhán O'Brien | |
| 12/14/22 | Bacterial evolution during human infection: adapt and live or adapt and die | Daria Van Tyne and Matt Culyba | x |
2021
| Date | Title | Speaker | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1/11/21 | Integrating evolutionary dynamics into clinical cancer treatment | Robert Gatenby (Moffitt Cancer Center) with Shelley Hwang (Duke) | x |
| 1/22/21 | Wealth, inequality, and health in a small-scale subsistence society | Adrian Jaeggi (University of Zurich) and Aaron Blackwell (Washington State University) | x |
| 1/28/21 | Successful Aging in the Forest: How wild chimpanzees can help us understand the evolution of human aging | Melissa Emery Thompson (University of New Mexico) with Arun Karlamangla (UCLA) | x |
| 2/11/21 | How vaccines train the immune system in ways no one expected | Christine Stabell Benn (University of Southern Denmark) | x |
| 2/17/21 | HIV and male sexual behavior: a hypothesis and its history | Phil Starks (Tufts University) | x |
| 2/23/21 | Does evolutionary biology have anything to say about how we should use antibiotics? | Robert Woods with John LiPuma (University of Michigan) | x |
| 3/9/21 | 7 Metabolic Myths: Evolutionary Energetics in Human Ecology and Health | Herman Pontzer (Duke) with Erik Willis (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) | x |
| 3/25/21 | Harnessing the social lives of microbes to improve human health | Sandra B. Andersen (University of Copenhagen) and Camille Simonet (University of Edinburgh) | x |
| 4/1/21 | The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West became psychologically peculiar and particularly prosperous | Joe Henrich with Neal Baer (Harvard) | x |
| 4/5/21 | Causes and consequences of fear of childbirth | Zaneta Thayer (Dartmouth College) | x |
| 4/21/21 | Die young, live fast: is accelerated reproduction an adaptive response to early life adversity in wild baboons? | Elizabeth Archie and Chelsea Weibel (University of Notre Dame) | x |
| 4/29/21 | Postdoc Spotlight: antibiotic resistance, early life adversity, and immunogenetic diversity | Kyle Card (Cleveland Clinic), Liz Lange (Duke), and Federica Pierini (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History) | x |
| 5/10/21 | The COVID-19 Pandemic and Human Nature: An Interdisciplinary Conversation | Dan Blumstein (UCLA), Martie Haselton (UCLA), Joe Alcock (University of New Mexico), and Barbara Natterson-Horowitz (UCLA) | x |
| 5/17/21 | Divergent evolutionary roots for posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms | Sarah Mathew (Arizona State University) and Matthew Zefferman (Naval Postgraduate Academy) | x |
| 6/11/21 | Why is human childbirth so difficult? Obstetrics and the evolution of labor | Philipp Mitteroecker and Barbara Fischer (University of Vienna) | x |
| 6/21/21 | Evolution management from a game-theory perspective: can superbugs be forever tamed? | David McAdams (Duke) | x |
| 6/29/21 | Of Mice and Elephants: Trade-Offs of Tumor Suppressor Duplication and Body Size Evolution in Afrotheria | Juan Manuel Vazquez (University of California, Berkeley) | x |
| 7/21/21 | Understanding evolutionary mismatch at the genomic level | Amanda Lea (Vanderbilt University) | x |
| 8/24/21 | SARS-CoV-2 transmission bottlenecks and why we care | Katia Koelle and Michael Martin (Emory University) | x |
| 9/9/21 | Alzheimer’s Disease: a case of evolutionary mismatch? | Molly Fox (UCLA) | x |
| 9/21/21 | The durability of immunity against reinfection by SARS-CoV-2: a comparative evolutionary study | Jeffrey Townsend (Yale), Alex Dornburg (University of North Carolina, Charlotte), and Hayley Hassler (Yale) | x |
| 10/14/21 | How evolutionary behavioural sciences can help us understand behaviour in a pandemic | Ruth Mace, Emily Emmott, and Gul Deniz Salali (University College London) | x |
| 10/21/21 | Evolutionary demography sheds light on the allelic spectrum of late-onset diseases | Samuel Pavard (National Museum of Natural History in Paris) and Christophe Coste (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) | x |
| 11/4/21 | Can evolution-thinking bring phage therapy closer to standard-of-care? | Paul Turner (Yale) with Benjamin Chan (Yale) and Robert Woods (University of Michigan) | x |
| 11/18/21 | Deciphering the persistence of antimicrobial resistance in the absence of antimicrobial pressure using a One Health approach | Sid Thakur (North Carolina State University) | x |
| 12/2/21 | The genetic history of the plague: what we learn from ancient pandemics | Johannes Krause (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) | x |
| 12/14/21 | Genetic adaptation to zoonotic viruses: how did chimpanzees adapt to SIV/HIV infections? | Aida Andres (University College London) | x |
2020
| Date | Title | Speaker | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4/2/20 | Teaching evolution in the time of COVID-19 | Jeff Thorne and David Rasmussen (NC State) | x |
| 4/8/20 | One Health perspectives on the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 | Kevin Olival and Hongying Li (EcoHealth Alliance) | x |
| 4/14/20 | Ongoing evolution of SARS-CoV-2: an evolutionary medicine challenge for research and teaching | Vaughn Cooper (University of Pittsburgh) | x |
| 5/1/20 | Social distancing in the animal kingdom | Julia Buck (University of North Carolina, Wilmington) and Dana Hawley (Virginia Tech) | x |
| 5/7/20 | The behavioral immune system and fear of COVID-19 | Alfonso Troisi (University of Rome Tor Vergata) | x |
| 5/15/20 | Harmful or helpful? Cytokine storms examined in light of evolution | Joe Alcock (University of New Mexico) | x |
| 5/18/20 | Lessons from 3.5 billion years of life: what biological evolution tells us about success in countering catastrophic risks | Daniel Blumstein (UCLA) and Terence Taylor (International Council for the Life Sciences) | x |
| 5/26/20 | Evolution in the flesh: How cancer cells evolve to cheat the foundations of multicellular cooperation and what this means for cancer treatment and prevention | Athena Aktipis (Arizona State University) | x |
| 6/3/20 | The creative role of chance in evolution: fifty years after Jacques Monod | Sean B. Carroll (University of Maryland) | x |
| 6/11/20 | Tacit creationism in emotions research | Randolph Nesse (Arizona State University) | x |
| 6/15/20 | Social determinants of health and survival in humans and other animals | Jenny Tung (Duke), Noah Snyder-Mackler (Arizona State University), and Dan Belsky (Columbia) | x |
| 6/23/20 | Batural selection: making sense of COVID-19 symptoms and mortality using core principles of evolutionary medicine | Bernard Crespi (Simon Fraser University) | x |
| 6/30/20 | Coming of Age on Planet Earth: The Nature of Adolescence in Humans and Other Animals | B. N. Horowitz (Harvard, UCLA) | x |
| 7/6/20 | The Evolution of Human Skin Color: What We Know and How We Can Talk About It | Nina Jablonski (Pennsylvania State University) | x |
| 7/14/20 | Tracing pathogens through time with ancient DNA | Verena Schuenemann (University of Zurich) | x |
| 7/20/20 | Hemoglobin and high-altitude hypoxia: evolution and public health | Cynthia Beall (Case Western Reserve University) | x |
| 8/20/20 | The new tangled bank of disease: from protein space to injection networks and COVID-19 disparities | Brandon Ogbunu (Yale) | x |
| 8/27/20 | Racial differences in host immune response to Helicobacter pylori virulence factors – does this help to explain the gastric cancer racial disparity in the United States? | Meira Epplein (Duke) and Julia Butt (German Cancer Research Center) | x |
| 9/3/20 | Cancer prevalence and life history traits in mammals | Amy Boddy (University of California, Santa Barbara) with Gunter Wagner (Yale) and David Haig (Harvard) | x |
| 9/10/20 | An evolutionary lens on analyzing human birth timing | Abbe LaBella (Vanderbilt University), Abin Abraham (Vanderbilt University), Lou Muglia (Burroughs Wellcome Fund), Antonis Rokas (Vanderbilt University), and Tony Capra (University of California, San Francisco) | x |
| 9/17/20 | Why Sitting Is Not the New Smoking: an evolutionary medical perspective on physical inactivity | Daniel Lieberman (Harvard) | x |
| 10/1/20 | Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Race: And Why That’s Important for Evolutionary Medicine | Joseph L. Graves, Jr. (North Carolina A&T State University) | x |
| 10/6/20 | Assessing SARS-CoV-2 susceptibility in 400 species with comparative genomics | Elinor Karlsson (University of Massachusetts) | x |
| 10/13/20 | Survival of the Friendliest | Brian Hare (Duke) | x |
| 10/19/20 | How recent characterizations of somatic mutations in humans inform an evolutionary understanding of aging and cancer | James DeGregori (University of Colorado Anschutz) | x |
| 10/27/20 | Pathogen selection for HLA gene diversity and its consequences for autoimmunity and cancer immunotherapy | Tobias L. Lenz (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology) | x |
| 11/4/20 | Postdoc Spotlight: Behavioral resistance, antibiotic resistance, and immune tradeoffs | Caroline Amoroso (University of Virginia), Amrita Bhattacharya (Pennsylvania State University), and Angela Garcia (Arizona State University) | x |
| 11/12/20 | The Nature of Fear | Daniel Blumstein (UCLA) | x |
| 11/17/20 | Social immunity: cooperative disease defense in social insect colonies | Sylvia Cremer (Institute of Science and Technology Austria) with Nathalie Stroeymeyt (University of Bristol) and Chris Pull (University of Oxford) | x |
| 12/1/20 | Age-dependence in evolutionary mismatch | Michael R. Rose (University of California, Irvine) and Grant Rutledge (Tufts University) | x |