See this webpage for upcoming ClubEvMed events and videos of past events. All are welcome but you must sign up ahead of time for these Zoom Webinars that provide a short talk followed by questions and discussion.

Thursday, June 11th at 11am ET Tacit creationism in emotions research Join us for a conversation with Randolph Nesse, Foundation Professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University. We will discuss his new article, “Tacit Creationism in Emotions Research,” published this week in Emotion Researcher. A pdf version is available here. Sign up here for the meeting link.

Monday, June 15th at 2pm ET Social determinants of health and survival in humans and other animals Join us for a conversation with Jenny Tung, Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology and Biology at Duke, Noah Snyder-Mackler, Assistant Professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University, and Dan Belsky, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at Columbia. They’ll be leading a discussion on their recent Science paper, “Social determinants of health and survival in humans and other animals.” Sign up here for the meeting link

A weekly Zoom meeting led by an expert in some evolutionary medicine-related topic centered around a paper, web resource, or dataset, with opportunities for brief presentation and then discussion. https://tricem.org/outreach-and-education/club-evmed 

Friday, May 15th at 1pm ET: Harmful or helpful? Cytokine storms examined in light of evolution with Joe Alcock

A variety of therapies for COVID-19 are aimed at inhibiting the harmful consequences of a cytokine storm, defined as an exaggerated and out-of-control immune response. Cytokine storms assume that immune responses are often dysregulated and maladaptive, causing more harm than good. Several drugs are proposed to inhibit the cytokine storm in COVID-19, but will these drugs work?

Join us for a conversation with Joe Alcock, emergency physician and professor in the University of New Mexico Department of Emergency Medicine. He will discuss the evidence for immunomodulatory drugs for infection (reviewed here: https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm7090247) and consider the concept of a cytokine storm in light of evolutionary medicine. Several evolutionary medicine concepts – the smoke detector principle, immune brinksmanship, mismatch, and cliff-edge effects may explain seemingly excessive immune responses. On the other hand, host-pathogen arms races may result in immune systems that are resistant to medical improvement. Sign up here for the meeting link: https://duke.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIvceirrD8iGNyjreUITQ1ZTTz-6wyzmCA3.

Our next #ClubEvMed will be led by Alfonso Troisi: The behavioral immune system and fear of #COVID19. Join us this Thursday 5/7 at 12pm ET. Hope to see you there!

Register here for this Zoom meeting. All are Welcome.