Gül Dölen, Department of Neuroscience
John Hopkins University
Social reward: Basic mechanisms and Autism Pathogenesis
Social behaviors in species as diverse as honey bees and humans promote group survival but often come at some cost to the individual.
Elizabeth Borer, Associate Professor
University of Minnesota
Untangling host nutrition, coinfection and disease risk using grasses as a model system
In both ecology and medicine, we often focus our efforts on understanding the interactions bet
Mel Konner
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Emory University
Women After All? Adventures in ‘Natural Superiority’
Mel Konner, M.D. and Professor of Anthropology at Emory University presented a talk based on his newest book Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy.
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Emory University
'Paleo' Diet and Lifestyle: After 30 Years, Is There Any Science Left in All the Hype?
In 1985 S.
Jeff Jensen
Professor, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
The population genetics of adaptation
Understanding the distributions of selective effects of newly arising, segregating, and fixed mutations – central to population genetics over the last century – stands as a major focus of the present and future Jensen Lab.
Bruce German, Professor, Food Science and Technology
Director, Foods for Health Institute
University of California, Davis
Lactation and milk: A model for diet and health for all ages
Solving the problems of food production, food safety, nourishment and sustainability will require a much more detailed understanding of the complex interplay between human health and food.
Paul Turke, Adjunct clinical faculty
The University of Michigan
Why and how we reboot: Some clinical implications
The human immune system reboots every generation. It’s a lifelong process, but much of it is accomplished before birth. Why must we reboot? Because our immune systems senesce, and because germs evolve rapidly. How do we reboot? Largely by a process known as “T cell education,” which works best when it’s done in the fetal thymus.
Paul Ewald, Professor
University of Louisville
Toward a unified, evolutionary theory of cancer
Discoveries over the past few decades draw attention to the need for a coherent general theory for oncogenesis, one that fully integrates knowledge about the contribution of genetic, environmental and infectious causes. My presentation offers an evo
Susanne Pfeifer, Visiting Scientist
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
The importance of mutation and recombination rate variation - lessons from chimpanzees to lizards
Molecular evolution is driven by an interplay of different forces, with the relative importance of natural selection versus genetic drift for example being a debate as old as the field of population genetics itself.
Professor of Anthropology, Integrative Anthropological Sciences Unit Chair