ISEMPH 2021 Program

Dates: July 14-16, 2021

Times: 15:00-21:00 UTC(11 am-5 pm EDT)

Location: Virtual!

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• Schedule including plenaries and Wednesday special opening event
  
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We are excited to offer the following experiences:

• Opening and closing remarks by Barbara Natterson Horowitz, Frank Rühli, Stephen Stearns, and Randolph Nesse.
• Plenary sessions by Kizzmekia Corbett, Kath Maitland, Beverly Strassmann, and Paul Turner.
• Global Village activity where people can share something from their home town/region, from food and drink, to song, dance, poetry, pictures, and so on. A cultural show and tell!
• 16 invited oral symposia, 12 open oral symposia, and 4 poster sessions.
• Presentation by the George C. Williams prize winner: Renée Hagen for the paper "Adoption of outgroup norms provides evidence for social transmission in perinatal care practices among rural Namibian women" (Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health July 2020, 161-173, with Brooke Scelza).
• Presentation by the Gilbert S. Omenn prize winner: Chelsea Weibel for the paper "Accelerated reproduction is not an adaptive response to early-life adversity in wild baboons” (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Oct 2020, 117 (40) 24909-24919, with Jenny Tung, Susan C. Alberts, and Elizabeth A. Archie).
• Grand Challenges activity to work in teams to develop a grant proposal or paper about a critical topic in evolutionary medicine.

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Please note that the schedule and program are subject to changes

Links to the pre-recorded oral presentations and posters as well as all live conference events are available HERE.

Plenary speakers:

Dr. Kath Maitland

Surgery & Cancer, Imperial College London

"The FEAST Trial: 10 Years On"

 July 16, 15:00 UTC

Dr. Beverly Strassmann

"Developmental Origins in Evolutionary Perspective: A 20-year Prospective Cohort Study of the Dogon of Mali"

July 15, 15:00 UTC

Dr. Paul Turner

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University

"Leveraging Evolutionary Trade-Offs and Phage Selection Pressure to Reduce Bacterial Pathogenicity in Patient Therapy"

July 16, 20:00 UTC

Invited Symposia:

• Evolution and Health Disparities
• Increasing Diversity in Evolutionary Medicine Courses: Global Examples and Perspectives
• Organizational Immunity: Evolutionary and Epidemiological Aspects of Infection Prevention by Contact Modulation
• Psychology of COVID-19
• Light and Sleep: The Use and Misuse of Artificial Light in Different Societies
• Evolutionary and Biopsychosocial Perspectives on Sickness Communication
• What Has GWAS Taught Us About Natural Selection?
• Generating and Testing Hypotheses in Evolutionary Medicine: Banning the Idiopathic
• Moving Toward Active Learning Classrooms and Activities for Teaching Evolutionary Medicine
• Evolutionary Medicine at the Bedside
• Evolutionary Psychiatry and Neurodiversity
• Evolutionary Medicine and Palaeopathology Synergies: Are We Moving Forward?
  
• The Utmost Importance of Evolutionary Medicine for Global Health
• Evolutionary Developmental Pathology (Evo-Devo-Path): Development, Variations, Pathologies, 'Natural Mutants,' and Phenotype-Genotype Links
• Philosophical Considerations in Evolutionary Medicine

Open oral sessions:

• Reproduction
• Development
• Cancer
• Physiology, Health, and Behavior
• Pathogens, Microbiology, and Microbiomes
• Cancer and Senescence
• Health Disparities and Education
• COVID-19

Posters sessions:

• Physiology and Health
• Reproduction
• Behavior and Education

The ISEMPH program committee for 2021 includes Michael Muehlenbein (Chair), Joe Alcock, Nicole Bender, Michelle Blyth, Sylvia Cremer, Bernie Crespi, Isabel Gordo, Joe Graves, Michael Hochberg (Co-Chair), Jay Labov,  Alejandra Nuñez De La Mora, Gillian Pepper, and Frank Rühli. 

Please send program questions to michael_muehlenbein@baylor.edu.