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.
This Center for Evolution and Medicine Seminar features Montserrat Anguera, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine.
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.
The study of seemingly obscure animal viruses has led to major advances in medicine and research. This talk will describe work in the Stenglein lab involving the discovery and characterization of viruses causing disease in animals, and the unexpected lessons learned along the way. Mark Stenglein is an Assistant Professor in the Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology Department at Colorado State University. Dr. Stenglein's training bridges computing and biology and he has deep roots in both areas. In addition to a PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology, Dr.
Dr. Clark has been working on methods for statistical inference of population genetic attributes of population samples since obtaining his PhD at Stanford in 1980. He has published more than 360 peer-reviewed papers in the field of population genetics, and is co-author with Dan Hartl of Principles of Population Genetics. His work is split between efforts in human and Drosophila empirical population genetics, with an emphasis on computationally challenging statistical methods, and on theoretical population genetics, including large simulation studies.