Many thanks to Cynthia Beall for this commentary on Andrea Graham’s Plenary talk “Why do immune systems harm their bearers? The evolutionary biology of friendly fire”. Andrea Graham of Princeton University walked us through a tale of two species and...
Ashley Snyder presents this commentary on the session “Frontiers in evolutionary medicine.” Evolutionary medicine considers so many different fields of study. The presentations in “Frontiers of evolutionary medicine” represented work on the past, in...
This commentary on the evolution of pathogens session just in from Elizabeth (Betsy) Uhl. This interesting and important gem of a session started with a presentation by Joseph Graves about how E. coli bacteria like their bling – or rather how they do not like...
Charlie Nunn weighing in here with a commentary on Joshua Schiffman’s plenary talk. Those of us at the ISEMPH meeting in Durham experienced a fantastic and inspiring plenary talk by Joshua Schiffman, of the Huntsman Cancer Institute and the Intermountain...
Here is Bruce Rothschild’s final report from this year’s ISEMPH conference. Thanks Bruce! Utilizing historical, skeletal and mummy investigations, evolution of disease through time provides insights into current diseases and new options for their control...
