ISEMPH2019: INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR EVOLUTION, MEDICINE, AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2019
PROGRAM

Days: Tuesday, August 13th Wednesday, August 14th Thursday, August 15th Friday, August 16th

Tuesday, August 13th

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09:00-12:00 Session 1: Pre-conference workshop on Oxytocin

Begins Aug 12 afternoon. To register contact Adrian Jaeggi – adrian.jaeggi@iem.uzh.ch. For details see https://isemph.org/Program-2019

Location: 220
13:15-14:45 Session 3: Education committee meeting

For members of the Education Committee. Please contact Jay Labov if you would like to help with the work of this committee

Chair:
Location: 203
15:00-16:30 Session 4: Developing the field meeting

All who are running or considering developing an evolutionary medicine program are welcome to attend and share notes and ideas

Location: 203
19:30-21:45 Session 5: Council meeting

At Restaurant Mère Catherine, Nägelihof 3, 8001 Zürich

Wednesday, August 14th

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09:00-09:30 Session 6: Opening notes

With welcoming words by the President of the University of Zurich Prof. Michael Hengartner.

Location: Aula
09:30-10:30 Session 7: Keynote Kayla King
Location: Aula
09:30
Protectors and killers: microbial drivers of pathogen evolution (abstract)
10:30-11:00Coffee Break
11:00-12:20 Session 8A: Antibiotic resistance
Location: Aula
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)
11:00-12:20 Session 8B: Morphology
Location: 217
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)
11:00-12:20 Session 8C: Symposium Translational aspects
Location: 204
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)
12:20-13:20Lunch Break
13:20-13:50 Session 9: Poster session I

All posters are exhibited during the whole congress, not just the ones listed in the specific session list.

Location: Patio
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)
13:50-14:30 Session 10: Plenary Dan Lieberman
Location: Aula
13:50
Is Exercise Really Medicine? An Evolutionary Perspective. (abstract)
14:30-15:00Coffee Break
15:00-16:20 Session 11A: Microbiome
Location: Aula
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)
15:00-16:20 Session 11B: Mixed session: cancer and methods
Location: 217
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)
15:00-16:20 Session 11C: Symposium Paleopathology
Location: 204
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)
Thursday, August 15th

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08:30-09:30 Session 14: Keynote Bernard Crespi
Location: Aula
08:30
How evolutionary biology can frame a unified theory for understanding human mental illness (abstract)
09:30-10:00Coffee Break
10:00-12:00 Session 15A: Life course
Location: Aula
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)
10:00-12:00 Session 15B: Mixed session: adaptations
Location: 217
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)
10:00-12:00 Session 15C: Symposium microbiome and neurologic disease risk
Chair:
Location: 204
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)
12:00-13:00Lunch Break
13:00-13:30 Session 16: Poster session II

All posters are exhibited during the whole congress, not just the ones listed in the specific session list.

Location: Patio
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)
13:30-14:30 Session 17: Keynote Dario Riccardo Valenzano
Location: Aula
13:30
African killifishes shed light on the genomic basis of life history trait evolution in vertebrates (abstract)
14:30-15:00Coffee Break
15:00-17:00 Session 18A: Life history
Location: Aula
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)
15:00-17:00 Session 18B: Immunology
Location: 217
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)
15:00-17:00 Session 18C: Teaching Workshop
Chair:
Location: 204
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)
Friday, August 16th

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08:30-09:30 Session 20: Keynote Verena Schünemann
Chair:
Location: Aula
08:30
Ancient DNA and pathogens: uncovering the past of human diseases (abstract)
09:30-10:00Coffee Break
10:00-12:00 Session 21A: Infectious diseases
Location: Aula
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)
10:00-11:00 Session 21B: Symposium Pregnancy and Birth
Location: 204
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)
10:00-12:00 Session 21C: Symposium One Health
Location: 217
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)
11:00-12:00 Session 22: Symposium The Normal and The Pathological
Location: 204
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)
12:00-13:00Lunch Break
13:00-13:30 Session 23: Poster session III

All posters are exhibited during the whole congress, not just the ones listed in the specific session list.

Location: Patio
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)
13:30-14:00 Session 24: G.C Williams Prize winner Jessica Marie Hoffman
Location: Aula
13:30
Is antagonistic pleiotropy ubiquitous in aging biology? (abstract)
14:00-14:30 Session 25: Gilbert Omenn Prize winner Roderich Römhild
Location: Aula
14:00
Hysteresis treatments: Exploiting cellular memory to prevent resistance evolution (abstract)
14:30-15:00 Session 26: Plenary Detlev Ganten
Location: Aula
14:30
Lessons learned from Evolution for the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and Better Health for All (abstract)
16:00-17:00 Wax Moulages Museum guided tour

Please register on site at the registration desk. Places are limited.

21:00-23:00 City night tour

There will be two groups, one starting at 20.45, one starting at 21.45