Evolutionary Medicine Course August 6-10 at Mt. Desert Island

Evolutionary Foundations for Medicine and Public Health: Focus on Infection and Cancer August 6-10 at the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine Registration now open CME credit available This course will be limited to 40 participants.  It will...

Fast evolution of bacteria after a host shift

Ultrafast Evolution and Loss of CRISPRs Following a Host Shift in a Novel Wildlife Pathogen, Mycoplasma gallisepticum By Delaney NF , Balenger S , Bonneaud C , Marx CJ , Hill GE , et al. in PLoS Genet 8(2): e1002511. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1002511 (open access) (See...

Harnessing evolutionary biology to combat infectious disease

By Tom J Little,  Judith E Allen, Simon A Babayan, Keith R Matthews & Nick Colegrave, In Nature Medicine 18: 217–220  (2012)  doi:10.1038/nm.2572 (not open access) Abstract Pathogens have remarkable abilities to flout therapeutic intervention. This characteristic...

Evolutionary explanation for IL6 mediated inflammatory disease

Antagonistic pleiotropy at the human IL6 promoter confers genetic resilience to the pro-inflammatory effects of adverse social conditions in adolescence. By  Cole SW, Arevalo JM, Manu K, Telzer EH, Kiang L, Bower JE, Irwin MR, Fuligni AJ. Dev Psychol. 2011...