Cancelled: ISEMPH 2020 in Athens, Georgia

Start
15 Jul 2020
8:00 AM
End
18 Jul 2020
6:00 PM
Location
Athens, GA

Registration

(depends on selected options)

Base fee:

Category 1: ISEMPH Member - Early Registration Discount – $400.00
Until April 30, 2019
Category 2: Non-Member Early Registration Discount – $500.00
Until April 30, 2020
Category 3: ISEMPH Student/Postdoc/Retired Member Discount - Early Registration – $200.00
Until April 30, 2020
Category 4: Non-Member Student/Postdoc Early Registration Discount – $300.00
Until April 30, 2020
Category 5: ISEMPH Member Regular Registration – $450.00
May 1 - June 30, 2020
Category 6: Non-Member Regular Registration – $550.00
Category 7: ISEMPH Student/Postdoc Member Regular Registration – $250.00
Category 8: Non-Member Student/Postdoc Regular Registration – $350.00
Late Category 1: ISEMPH Member Late Registration – $500.00
July 1 - 14, 2020
Late Category 2: Non-Member Late Registration – $600.00
July 1-18, 2020
Late Category 3: ISEMPH Student/Postdoc Member Late Registration – $300.00
July 1 - 14, 2020
Late Category 4: Non-Member Student/Postdoc Late Registration – $400.00
Other: ISEMPH Sponsor Registration
There is no registration fee for ISEMPH members at the Sponsor level.
Other: One-Day Only Registration Fee – $200.00
This category is for use only by local registrants

To receive the discounted member rate you must have a current paid-up ISEMPH membership. If you pay via the link, your membership will be updated immediately otherwise it will take several days to update your member status. Your registration fee is refundable (except for processing fees) until June 1, 2020. If your registration category is grayed out, check your category of membership and upgrade our profile it if necessary by clicking your name in the upper right hand corner of the screen.

Registration is not available, with additional discounts for paid ISEMPH members.

Current members: Use your email address to sign into your member account. To get a password, click "Forgot Password" even if you never had a password for your account before. Your account must be up to date to get the member's meeting discount.

New members: Through February 29, 2020, new members can receive a 20% discount on membership using the code LUVISEMPH. Join today.

The Sixth Annual Meeting of the International Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health will be at the University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education and Hotel from July 15-18, 2020. Students, researchers, clinicians and others are all welcome.

ISEMPH 2020 is a profoundly interdisciplinary meeting that emphasizes the multiple interfaces between evolutionary biology and human health in medicine, nursing, veterinary medicine, anthropology, evolutionary psychology, behavioral ecology and epidemiology. Students and clinicians at all stages of professional development are especially welcome. Only 300 seats are available, so please register early. Cancellations before June 1, 2020 are eligible for a refund.

Registration includes welcome reception with hors d'oeuvres, breakfast, lunch and snacks each day of the conference, and a dinner banquet on the last (Friday) evening.

The Hosting Committee is chaired by Elizabeth Uhl, DVM, PhD, DACVP, Professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia.

The Program Committee is chaired by Michael Muehlenbein, PhD, MsPH, Professor and Chair in the Department of Anthropology at Baylor University.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers

Vaughn Cooper, PhD, Professor, Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh
Kevin Keel, PhD, DVM, Associate Professor, Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine
Sudhir Kumar, PhD, Laurel H. Carnell Professor and Director of the Institute of Genomics and Evolutionary Medicine, Temple University
Nina Marano, DVM, Chief, Immigrant, Refugee and Migrant Health Branch, Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, CDC
Beverly Strassmann, PhD, Professor, Anthropology, University of Michigan
Paul Turner, PhD, Rachel Carson Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University School of Medicine
Winners of the George C. Williams Prize and the Gilbert Omenn Prize will also give plenary presentations.

The mission of the International Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health's is to foster communication among scientists, students, clinicians and public health professionals who use evolutionary insights to improve medical research and practice, and information on human health and disease to advance evolutionary biology. Previous meetings have been at Arizona State University, Duke University, Groningen, Netherlands (with ESEB), Park City, Utah, and Zurich, Switzerland. The 2021 meeting will be in Lisbon, Portugal.

In addition to annual meetings, ISEMPH sponsors the Oxford University Press journal Evolution, Medicine, & Public Health, The Evolution and Medicine Review, and EvMedEd.

Topics covered in ISEMPH meetings include:

· Adaptation and host defenses

· Antibiotic resistance

· Cancer evolution

· Cardiovascular disease

· Chronic degenerative diseases

· Comparative medicine

· Developmental plasticity

· Emerging diseases

· Epigenetic causes of disease

· Evolutionary arms races

· Evolutionary aspects of aging

· Evolutionary aspects of pharmaceuticals

· Evolutionary genetics

· Evolutionary psychology

· Gene-environment mismatch

· Health-related evolutionary trade-offs

· Hygiene and public health

· Immunology

· Life history theory

· Lifestyle diseases

· Obesity and diabetes

· One health

· Oral Health

· Mental health and disorders

· Microbiomes

· Molecular and population genetics

· Pathogen evolution

· Pediatrics

· Personalized medicine

· Pharmacogenomics

· Phylogenomics

· Reproductive diseases and women's health

· Sleep disorders

· Stress response

· Veterinary medicine

· Viral evolution