Evolution & Medicine Network

a resource for scientists and medical professionals working    
at the interface of evolutionary biology and medicine    

Recent and Upcoming Meetings on Evolution and Medicine


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Evolution in Health and Medicine
Sackler Symposium
National Academy of Sciences, Irvine, CA
Spring, 2009, details forthcoming

The Dawn of Evolutionary Epidemiology
September 15-16, 2008
American College of Epidemiology Annual Meeting
Tucson, Arizona

Evolution in Contemporary Human Populations: Genetic, medical and behavioral implications.
May 23-27,2007 at  Durham, NC
NESCent catalysis meeting [Invited participants]
Organized by Stephen Stearns and Diddahally Govindaraju. .

Measuring evolutionary changes in humans using cohort data.
Ongoing (until 2009).
NESCent working group.
Andrew Clark, Diddahally Govindaraju, Trudy Mackay and Stephen Stearns.

Evolution and Health
Special Plenary Symposium
2007 American Society of Human Genetics Meetings
San Diego, CA.
Organized by Peter Byers and Diddahllay Govindaraju

Why aren't we extinct: Revisiting our load of mutations
Nov 2009
Scientific Session at the American Society of Human Genetics
Philadelphia, PA
Organized by Shamil Sunyaev and Diddahally Govindaraju-

Evolution: Applications in Human Health and Populations
Saturday, December 1, 2007
National Association of Biology Teachers Conference, Atlanta, GA
Co-sponsored by the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center

Evolution, Health and Disease: Darwinian Approaches to Medicine
(videos available on the website)
New York Academy of Sciences and Hunter College
20th Annual International Symposium of Hunter College's Center for Study of Gene Structure and Function

Evolution in Contemporary Human Populations: Medical, Genetic and Behavioral Implications.
A NESCent Catalysis Meeting (research meeting)
May, 2007
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

Evolutionary Biology and Human Health
May 14-15, 2007
Annual of the American Institute of Biological Sciences
Joint Meeting with the Natural Science Collections Alliance
Cosponsored by the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
Washington DC

Evolution and Medicine
Spring Lecture series sponsored by NSF National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) and the Office of Science Education (OSE)

2007 Western IDeA state's regional meeting on Evolutionary Medicine
March 14-16, 2007
University of Arizona
Albuquerque, Arizona

Teaching About Evolution in a Biomedical Context
April 29, 2007
American Physiological Society
Washington DC

Evolution, Health and Disease
(video now available)
20th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF THE GENE CENTER
JANUARY 19th, 2007
New York Academy of Sciences/Hunter College
New York, New York

Evolutionary Medicine: What and Why Medical Doctors Need to Know About Evolution
December 15, 2006
Faculty of Health Science and Faculty of Sciences
University of Copenhagen
Copenhagen, Denmark

A Society for the Study of Human Biology and BioSocial Society symposium:
Medicine and Evolution
December 11-12, 2006
York Hull Medical School
York, UK

Evolution2006 meeting of SSE
June 23-27, 2006
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY

Symposium Health and Evolution
April 26-28, 2006
Erasmus Molecular Medicine Graduate School
Rotterdam

Evolutionary Medicine
October 11-14, 2005
Institute for Theoretical Biology
Humboldt University, Berlin