The ISEMPH 2022 program is now final and online, thanks to Program Chairs Michael Hochberg and Alejandra Nuñez De La Mora and the Program Committee.  Discounted early registration expires on Sunday May 15, but the discount will still be available on May 16 to avoid confusion from time zone vagaries.

With 80 talks, including 8 distinguished plenary speakers, 60 posters, and a variety of social events, this will be the best evolutionary medicine meeting yet. Please also note events on July 5, including the welcome reception at 17:30.
All are welcome, from students to advanced researchers.

VENUE
The conference will be held at the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (FCG, in the Portuguese acronym) in Lisbon. FCG is a pleasant, iconic, and easily accessible place in the center of Lisbon, with ample indoor and outdoor spaces. Around the FCG, there are many options for accommodation and food, covering a wide range of prices and styles, suitable for all.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Sebastian Bonhoeffer, ETH, Switzerland, Combination therapy and the evolution of drug resistance
Mhairi Gibson, University of Bristol, UK, The social and evolutionary dynamics of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) abandonment
Isabel Gordo, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal, Eco-evolutionary dynamics of Escherichia coli when it colonizes the intestinal tract
Joseph L. Graves, North Carolina A&T State University, USA, Racial health inequality is a solved problem: Now what do we do about it?
Gunther Janssen, Pharma PHC Centre of Excellence, Hoffman-La Roche / Genentech, Switzerland, Afternoon Discussion and Q&A on Pharma in and Evolutionary World C.
Jessica Metcalf, Princeton University, USA, What we can and can’t predict about the evolutionary trajectory of SARS-CoV-2
Luca Ermini, Winner of the George. C. Williams Prize for work on Evolutionary selection of alleles in the melanophilin gene that impacts on prostate organ function and cancer risk
Haley Randolph, Winner of the $5,000  Omenn Prize, Genetic ancestry effects on the response to viral infection are pervasive but cell type specific

Questions welcome. Manager@isemph.org or HostingCommittee@ISEMPH.org or ProgramCommittee@ISEMPH.org

Conceptual and Philosophical Issues in Evolutionary Medicine

 Lisbon, July 2-5 2022

Organised by Theory and Method in Biosciences (University of Sydney and Macquarie University) and ImmunoConcEpT (Université de Bordeaux) with support from the John Templeton Foundation.

This four-day workshop is an opportunity for early career researchers to join field leaders in evolutionary medicine and public health (EMPH) and in the philosophy of biology and medicine for a series of intensive discussions. Rather than simply teaching the state of the field, the aim is to progress key issues in the foundations of evolutionary medicine and to encourage researchers in the philosophy of science and medicine to engage more closely with the field of EMPH.

All participants will be expected to be active participants in achieving these goals. We also hope that new collaborative relationships between philosophers and EMPH researchers will emerge from the meeting.

The workshop will run from midday Saturday July 2nd to midday Tuesday July 5th, immediately proceeding the 2022 International Society for Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health (ISEMPH) conference which commences on July 5th.

Discussion leaders will include:

Dan J. Stein (University of Capetown)
Jonathan Sholl (Université de Bordeaux)
Anya Plutynski (Washington University of St Louis)
Randolph M. Nesse (Arizona State University)
Dominic Murphy (University of Sydney)
Shane Glackin (University of Exeter)
Paul E. Griffiths (University of Sydney)
Pierrick Bourrat (Macquarie University)

Topics to be addressed will include: Framing and defining the field of EMPH; evolutionary perspectives on the distinction between the normal and the pathological; implications of evolution for psychiatry and psychiatric nosology; whether approaches to studying adaptation in EMPH are consistent with current developments in population genetics, adaptive dynamics and related fields; the interaction of biological and cultural change in explaining disease.

Twelve places for early career researchers (ECRs) are available at the workshop. Successful applicants will receive free accommodation in Lisbon for the duration of the workshop. Some funding is available to support travel by ECRs who do not have access to other funding. Applicants should have commenced or completed PhD research and should send a Curriculum Vitae and a letter of not more than one page (double spaced A4) explaining why they wish to attend the workshop. Applications should be sent to philosophy.tmb@sydney.edu.au by May 15th 2022.