This Center for Evolution and Medicine Seminar features Mitesh J. Borad, M.D., an assistant professor of medicine and director of Phase I Drug Development at Mayo Clinic in Arizona. He obtained his internal medical training at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and completed his medical oncology fellowship at Tulane University School of Medicine. Prior to joining Mayo Clinic, he spent three years at the Translational Genomics Research Institute as a Genomics Medicine Scholar. He has been serving on the NCI Hepatobiliary Task Force since 2011.

In this special seminar the postdoctoral fellows within the Center for Evolution and Medicine will explain their research and the connection it has to evolutionary medicine.

Alexandra Greenwald is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Evolution and Medicine. Her expertise is in bioarchaeology and evolutionary anthropology, and her research focuses on breastfeeding and weaning behavior in ancient human populations. She will be giving a talk on 'Evolutionary Insights into Breastfeeding from Archaeological Populations'.

In this special seminar the postdoctoral fellows within the Center for Evolution and Medicine will explain their research and the connection it has to evolutionary medicine.

Heini Natri is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Evolution and Medicine interested in genetic and regulatory mechanisms underlying cancer susceptibility. She will be giving a talk on 'Genetic effects on gene expression and survival in patients with multiple myeloma'.

This Center for Evolution and Medicine Seminar features Mihaela Pavlicev, Assistant Professor, Cincinnati Children`s Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati Medical School. Dr. Pavlicev is an evolutionary biologist interested in how developmental structure affects the way evolution changes traits, and results in the particular diversity we see across the species.

This Center for Evolution and Medicine Seminar features Cecil M. Lewis. Jr., Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Lewis' research falls under the broad umbrella of molecular anthropology, with a particular focus on population history, human evolution and what could be described as microbial anthropology. During his tenure at the University of Oklahoma (OU), it has been his objective to foster leadership in research that bridges microbial and anthropological sciences.

Emotional dysregulation (exaggerated or inappropriate emotional response) and inability to cognitively modulate this response, are the hallmarks of Psychiatric disorders like Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Phobia, and Depression. One of the main interests of professor Liberzon’s lab focuses on functional neuroanatomy of emotions of response to stress and trauma, and as it relates to pathophysiology of stress related disorders.

In The Biological Foundations of Bioethics (2015) Tim Lewens states that which phenotypes are regarded as pathological should not be “hostage to evolutionary enquiry”. In this talk, Griffiths will disagree, and discuss some ways in which recent advances in biology ought to change ideas about health and disease. Amongst other things, he suggest that the health of an organism and the quality of its environment are entwined conceptually, as well as causally.