Days: Tuesday, August 13th Wednesday, August 14th Thursday, August 15th Friday, August 16th
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Begins Aug 12 afternoon. To register contact Adrian Jaeggi – adrian.jaeggi@iem.uzh.ch. For details see https://isemph.org/Program-2019
For members of the Education Committee. Please contact Jay Labov if you would like to help with the work of this committee
All who are running or considering developing an evolutionary medicine program are welcome to attend and share notes and ideas
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With welcoming words by the President of the University of Zurich Prof. Michael Hengartner.
09:30 | Protectors and killers: microbial drivers of pathogen evolution (abstract) |
11:00 | Evolutionary ecology meets the antibiotic crisis: Can we control pathogen adaptation? (abstract) |
11:20 | Antibiotic resistance evolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex bacteria, during sub-lethal drug exposure (abstract) |
11:40 | Surviving the Greek Gift: Experimental Evolution of Gallium Resistance in Escherichia coli. (abstract) |
12:00 | Whole genome sequencing reveals the evolutionary trajectories of antibiotic resistance in Staphylococcus pasteuri isolates from human atherosclerotic plaques (abstract) |
11:00 | Quantifying the relationship between somatic maintence costs and adult body size (abstract) |
11:20 | Test of two evolutionary hypotheses using longitudinal data on body size and blood pressure (abstract) |
11:40 | Why is human childbirth so complex? The obstetrical dilemma hypothesis revisited (abstract) |
12:00 | Does the ecological model challenge the obstetrical dilemma? Evidence from historical Swiss data (abstract) |
11:00 | Applications of evolutionary medicine to emergency medicine and critical care (abstract) |
11:20 | Obstetrics in translational medicine (abstract) |
11:40 | Mindful eating and common diet programs lower weight similarly: Meta-Analysis (abstract) |
12:00 | Balancing population health benefits and harms of interventions and policies (abstract) |
All posters are exhibited during the whole congress, not just the ones listed in the specific session list.
13:20 | Retrodictive Disproof of the Onto-Phylogenetic “Just-So Story” and the Role of Narrative in Evolutionary Medicine (abstract) |
13:20 | Bioenergetic evolution links kidney development, CKD progression and aging (abstract) |
13:20 | Glucose Transporter 1 (GLUT1) its impact on selection of a phenotype without vitamin C synthesis and on vitamin C requirement in diabetic patients. (abstract) |
13:20 | Treating pathogenic bacteria with combinations of antibiotics and anti-virulence compounds can revert selection for antibiotic resistance (abstract) |
13:20 | Combinations of antibiotics and antivirulence compounds against Pseudomonas aeruginosa: efficacy, nature of drug-interactions and effect on antibiotic resistant clones (abstract) |
13:20 | Evolutionary Insights into Insomnia in Athletes: Using Systematic Review to Identify Natural Animal Models (abstract) |
13:20 | Lessons from Pellagra – Human evolution in reverse gear? (abstract) |
13:20 | Functional anatomy of Gluteus Maximus(GM) regarding a change of direction(cod) related to performance and injuries (abstract) |
13:20 | Evolution of bipedalism concurrently increasing capacity for pelvic rotation in the kinetic chain. (abstract) |
13:20 | Anthropometric measurements in male children with ASD point to genomic imprinting imbalance (abstract) |
13:20 | Burnout among nurses and correctional officers in Bulgaria: a comparative study (abstract) |
13:20 | The Animal Origins of Human Bullying: A Systematic Review of the “Oddity Effect” Literature and the Identification of Naturally Occurring Models for Appearance-Based Bullying in Humans (abstract) |
13:20 | Chemoreception in the Golden Apple Snail Pomacea canaliculata: Towards the development of snail-specific control methods and novel baiting strategies. (abstract) |
13:20 | Facial fluctuating asymmetry: is it related to higher risk of cardiometabolic diseases? (abstract) |
13:20 | Health promotion, community-campus-local authorities partnership and a new health professional profile (abstract) |
13:20 | Lack of education might trigger multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis development in Armenia: knowledge evolution (abstract) |
13:20 | Adaptive response against oxidative stress due to iron overload in beta-thalassemia/HbE patients (abstract) |
13:20 | Effects of the Thumbergia laurifolia Lindl. Extract on Gastric Ulceration in Rats (abstract) |
13:20 | Media Health Literacy Plays Critical Role of Shared Decision Making: Mediating or Moderating? (abstract) |
13:20 | The evolution of adult diseases into pediatric population: Pediatric obesity and its consequences (abstract) |
13:20 | SYNERGISTIC EFFECTS OF CHAMOMILE AND LAVENDER ESSENTIAL OILS FOR ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY (abstract) |
13:20 | Why we should be worried about pathogens with the “Killer move”? (abstract) |
13:50 | Is Exercise Really Medicine? An Evolutionary Perspective. (abstract) |
15:00 | Elucidating the genetic basis of gut microbial trait evolution in the house mouse subspecies complex and its relevance to understanding human disease (abstract) |
15:20 | The Landscape of Adaptive Evolution of a gut commensal bacterium in Aging Mice (abstract) |
15:40 | When to protect your master: Evolution of microbe-mediated protection in Caenorhabditis elegans (abstract) |
16:00 | Microbial differences between dental plaque and historic dental calculus are related to oral biofilm maturation stage (abstract) |
15:00 | Spatial competition constrains resistance to targeted cancer therapy (abstract) |
15:20 | "You can pay me now or pay me later": evolutionarily sensible approaches to preventing cancers (abstract) |
15:40 | The power of Organismal Performance Assays (OPAs) for detecting health declines due to any cause (abstract) |
16:00 | The Potential of Broad-Audience Peer-Reviewed Literature for Disseminating Knowledge in Evolutionary Medicine (abstract) |
15:00 | Palaeopathological Insights about the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DoHAD) (abstract) |
15:20 | Paleopathology and its impact on evolutionary medicine (abstract) |
15:40 | Erect posture, bipedalism and spinal health (abstract) |
16:00 | Uncovering Tales of Transmission: An Integrated Paleopathological and Evolutionary Perspective on Shared Human and Animal Pathogens (abstract) |
16:20 | Mitochondria and male disease (abstract) |
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08:30 | How evolutionary biology can frame a unified theory for understanding human mental illness (abstract) |
10:00 | Increased risk of digestive and genitourinary diseases but decreased risk of inflammatory bowel disease after childhood appendectomy: findings from a nationwide registry study (abstract) |
10:20 | The Role of the UN Oil for Food Program in the Pathway between Fetal Malnutrition and Poor Adult Health among Iraqi Families (abstract) |
10:40 | Developmental Origins of Health and Disease and Population Differences in Postnatal Growth Rates Among Premature Infants: Implications for Lifelong Health (abstract) |
11:00 | It's Better to Give than to Receive--Unless You're Young (abstract) |
11:20 | Childhood Development and Epigenetic Effects on Reproductive Function (abstract) |
11:40 | Prenatal PTSD is predicted by the interaction of hair cortisol, early life adversity, and current stress: implications for fetal programming (abstract) |
10:00 | The Origins of Megakaryocytes, Platelets and Eutherian Placentation are Linked (abstract) |
10:20 | Novel genomic architectures for clinical traits evolved during the Beringian Standstill (abstract) |
10:40 | The Magic Mountain? Adaptations to altitude and susceptibility to Tuberculosis in Nepal and Tibet (abstract) |
11:00 | Adjustable defense response thresholds are inherently vulnerable to positive feedback dysregulation (abstract) |
11:20 | Fish consumption is associated with school performance in children in a non-linear fashion: results from the German cohort study KiGGS (abstract) |
11:40 | The Fat of the Land: Is dietary fat a signal of environmental quality? Results from cross-populational studies of ovarian steroid concentrations. (abstract) |
10:00 | Microbiome as a Trojan Horse – how risky microbiomes influence brain and behavior (abstract) |
10:20 | Kombucha and the immune system: Implications for psychology and behavior (abstract) |
10:40 | What Lies Beneath: Microbiome-Gut-Brain Axis Dysregulation in Stress-related Disorders (abstract) |
11:00 | Symbiotic microbiota and Alzheimer's Disease (abstract) |
11:20 | Metabolic contributions of the gut microbiome to the brain (abstract) |
All posters are exhibited during the whole congress, not just the ones listed in the specific session list.
13:00 | A Retrospective Chart Review of Emergent Antibiotic Use (abstract) |
13:00 | The Evolution of the Shoulder as a Functional Trait Complex with the Skull and Vertebrae (abstract) |
13:00 | Intergenerational influences on breastfeeding behaviour in Perth, Western Australia (abstract) |
13:00 | Out of balance: evolutionary perspectives on the sex disparity in autoimmune disease (abstract) |
13:00 | A novel non-destructive DNA extraction method for historical Ethanol-Fixed samples (abstract) |
13:00 | Choosing to fast rather than feast: Does behavioral immunity, signaling, or performance enhancement explain deliberate fasting in the ethnographic record? (abstract) |
13:00 | ‘Evolutionary medicine’ neglects the pre-clinical phase (abstract) |
13:00 | Giraffe Myocardial Hypertrophy as an Evolved Adaptation and Natural Animal Model of Resistance to Diastolic Heart Failure in Humans. (abstract) |
13:00 | Evolutionary and Comparative Insights Into Atherosclerosis: The Use of Systematic Review to Characterize the Phylogeny of Vulnerability to Atherosclerosis and to Generate Novel Non-Proximate Hypotheses for Atherogenesis and Vasculopathy. (abstract) |
13:00 | The hip as the first link in the rotary kinetic chain evolving concurrently with bipedalism. (abstract) |
13:00 | Use of Taxonomical and Comparative Analyses to Generate Novel, Testable, and Non-Proximate Hypotheses for Osteosarcoma (abstract) |
13:00 | Using Museum Wet Specimens to analyze past pathogen genomes (abstract) |
13:00 | 2,000-year-old pathogen genomes reconstructed from mummies provide insights into the state of health of ancient Egyptians. (abstract) |
13:00 | U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) staffer answers questions about how the NIH supports medical research (abstract) |
13:00 | Expressions of iron-responsive and oxidative stress genes in iron-resistant Escherichia coli (abstract) |
13:00 | Towards the understanding of zoonotic events in infectious diseases: Tracing animal reservoirs in Switzerland (abstract) |
13:00 | An Anthropological and Evolutionary Critique of the Psychiatric Paradigm (abstract) |
13:00 | Necessary pluridisciplinarity in an Evolutionary Medicine Platform: our 10-year experience in Spain (abstract) |
13:00 | The Phylogeny of Atrial Fibrillation(AF): The Power of Comparative Arrhythmology to Generate Novel Hypotheses on the Origin of Vulnerability to AF (abstract) |
13:30 | African killifishes shed light on the genomic basis of life history trait evolution in vertebrates (abstract) |
15:00 | Do shorter lifespans in chimpanzees mean that they age less well than humans? (abstract) |
15:20 | A putative lactation reactivation syndrome triggered by menopause causing senescent multi-morbidity (abstract) |
15:40 | Inequalities, double burden of malnutrition and decline in age at menarche in 20th century Mexico: an evolutionary perspective (abstract) |
16:00 | Life history perspective – the necessary tool for understanding energetic supplementation of women (abstract) |
16:20 | Wealth, culture, fertility, and bargaining power: assessing competing theories of intimate partner violence in a large cross-national sample (abstract) |
16:40 | The costs and benefits of grandparental investment for grandparents’ health (abstract) |
15:00 | Evolution of alternative forms of immune memory (abstract) |
15:20 | Evidence for parasitism as a cause of mortality in a wild primate (abstract) |
15:40 | Evolution of the number of MHC genes: testing the TCR depletion hypothesis (abstract) |
16:00 | Pathogen diversity and generalist human MHC alleles (abstract) |
16:20 | To Attack or Not to Attack: the evolution of immune defences and autoimmune diseases under precision tradeoffs (abstract) |
16:40 | How decreased biodiversity impacts the immune system: Approaching “Old Friends” with the cavefish, Astyanax mexicanus (abstract) |
15:00 | Using Research about How People Learn and Effective Pedagogy as Guides for Developing Education Resources for Evolutionary Medicine (abstract) |
15:20 | The need for a learning framework for education about evolution and medicine (abstract) |
15:40 | How to teach evolutionary medicine effectively at European Universities (abstract) |
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08:30 | Ancient DNA and pathogens: uncovering the past of human diseases (abstract) |
10:00 | Ecology and mechanisms of interspecies interactions between Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus (abstract) |
10:20 | Evolutionary emergence of infectious diseases in heterogeneous host populations (abstract) |
10:40 | Evolutionary Predictions and Understanding of Sepsis (abstract) |
11:00 | Sociality affects disease epidemiology and pathogen evolution (abstract) |
11:20 | Reconstruction of new ancient Mycobacterium leprae genomes from Europe (abstract) |
11:40 | M. leprae genome variation in the Pacific (abstract) |
10:00 | Evolved immune compensation due to pregnancy underlies sex differences in human diseases (abstract) |
10:20 | Human variation and health adversities: Insights from a modern birth cohort study (abstract) |
10:40 | AN EVOLUTIONARY VIEW TO CESAREAN DELIVERY LATE CONSEQUENCES (abstract) |
10:00 | Microbiomes of air, surfaces and dust as indicators of human health (abstract) |
10:20 | What is One Health? (abstract) |
10:40 | Understanding the effect of urbanization of wildlife on health status, epidemiology and public health considerations (abstract) |
11:00 | Evolved Adaption and Natural Animal Models of Disease Vulnerability (abstract) |
11:20 | One Health: A Veterinary Perspective on the Integration of Human and Animal Medicine Through Evolution. (abstract) |
11:00 | Towards a model of age-related diseases (abstract) |
11:20 | Why medical dysfunction is (still) not selected effects dysfunction (abstract) |
11:40 | Disease and Evolution (abstract) |
All posters are exhibited during the whole congress, not just the ones listed in the specific session list.
13:00 | Ancient and recent selection on human cancer genes (abstract) |
13:00 | OVARIAN CANCER AS A MODEL FOR UNDERSTANDING TUMOR EVOLUTION IN SOLID MALIGNANCIES (abstract) |
13:00 | The evolutionary ecology of menopause symptoms (abstract) |
13:00 | Mutations of the master regulator of centriole formation PLK4 cause primary microcephaly and severe transmission ratio distortion (abstract) |
13:00 | Evolutionary conservation of rhythmic gene expression (abstract) |
13:00 | Adaptive Metabolic Fitness in Cancer Selection (abstract) |
13:00 | Sexual dimorphisms in response to pre-natal violence in humans: an evolutionary perspective (abstract) |
13:00 | The evolution of menopause and post-reproductive life: a phylogenetic perspective (abstract) |
13:00 | Evidence for adaptation to malaria in the human ancestor Australopithecus africanus, 2.6 million years ago (abstract) |
13:00 | Evidence-based relationship of occlusion and temporomandibular disorders (abstract) |
13:00 | New Insights Into Caesarean Section Risk Prediction Using Machine Learning (abstract) |
13:00 | Does meat consumption change across menstrual cycle? (abstract) |
13:00 | Co-infection or cross-immunity? New palaeopathological evidence for two debated hypotheses regarding the co-evolution of leprosy and pulmonary tuberculosis (abstract) |
13:00 | The evolution of courses in evolutionary medicine (abstract) |
13:00 | Evolution of chaperon-usher pili in Escherichia coli (abstract) |
13:00 | Number of sons and inflammaging among postmenopausal women (abstract) |
13:00 | Impact of host -pathogen mismatch in tuberculosis infections: Insights from a new infection model employing M. africanum and bovine macrophages (abstract) |
13:00 | Selected Effects Accounts of Dysfunction (abstract) |
13:00 | Robot Placentas in the Simulation Lab: The Shortcomings of Maternity Simulation Manikins in the Education of Advanced Practice Nursing Students (abstract) |
13:00 | Cholesterol regulation of innate immune system and its disorders due to smoking (abstract) |
13:00 | Evolution towards reduced burden of clinical antibiotic resistance plasmids (abstract) |
13:30 | Is antagonistic pleiotropy ubiquitous in aging biology? (abstract) |
14:00 | Hysteresis treatments: Exploiting cellular memory to prevent resistance evolution (abstract) |
14:30 | Lessons learned from Evolution for the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and Better Health for All (abstract) |
Please register on site at the registration desk. Places are limited.
There will be two groups, one starting at 20.45, one starting at 21.45