Gabriel Shaibi is a professor and Southwest Borderlands Scholar, director - Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and the senior director of research collaborations - Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation at Arizona State University

Melanie Martin will be talking about her research at this CEMinar. Her research examines biocultural influences on growth, development and reproduction. She conducts field research with two ongoing studies of Indigenous health across the life course: the Chaco Area Reproductive Ecology Program (Formosa, Argentina) and the Tsimane Health and Life History Project (Beni, Bolivia).

Amy Boddy will be talking about her research at this CEMinar. Her research focuses broadly on evolutionary applications to human health and disease. Her work is motivated by fundamental questions in life history theory. She uses a combination of genomics, comparative biology and evolutionary theory to help understand trade-offs between survival and reproduction across different levels of biological organization, from molecules to organisms and everything in between.

Dr. Emma Cohen will be talking about her research at this CEMinar. Emma researches the evolution and psychology of social behaviour, including developmental and cross-cultural perspectives. All projects are collaborative within the context of the Social Body Lab, which she leads at University of Oxford.

Dr Abigail Page will be talking about her research at this CEMinar. Dr Page's research is focused on understanding the relationship between the environment (both social and natural) and behaviour, and ultimately how this influences health and wellbeing. Her background is in evolutionary approaches to human behaviour (in particular Human Behavioural Ecology), therefore her research seeks to test hypotheses developed from evolutionary theory and ultimately, to understand the function of any given behaviour.

Christina Bergey will be talking about her research at this CEMinar. At the Bergey Lab in the Rutgers University Department of Genetics, her research aims to understand how organisms adapt to their environment with a focus on the evolution of complex, polygenic traits. To do so, she uses population, evolutionary and functional genomic approaches to understand the effects of past selection on modern medically-relevant phenotypes, testing evolutionary hypotheses in humans, non-human primates and disease vectors.

Esther Borges Florsheim will be discussing her research at this CEMinar. Dr. Florsheim is an immunologist with core interests in how immunological defenses promote fitness and organismal survival. She studies allergies, mast cell biology and neuro-immune interactions at the gastrointestinal tract to determine the impact of the immune system in physiology.

C. Eduardo Guerra Amorim will be talking about his research at this CEMinar. Eduardo is a population geneticist interested in human evolution, anthropology, medical genetics and in leveraging large datasets to contribute for the understanding of the biology of our species and of its closest relatives. He would like to understand the interplay between demography, mutation, natural selection and culture in determining the patterns of genetic diversity of human populations and how it impacts human health and evolution.