Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology

Seminar Series on Evolutionary Medicine

A special seminar series with the over-arching theme of Evolutionary Medicine was held at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in 2017/2018

Date	Speaker	University
28 Aug 2017, 11am	Steve Stearns	Yale University, USA
	"The causes and consequences of mismatch - Medicine, public health, demography, and selection in postindustrial populations."
08 Sep 2017, 11am	Athena Aktipis	Arizone State University, USA
	"Cooperation theory for cancer biology: Is cancer a cellular cheater?"
12 Oct 2017, 3pm	Jenny Tung	Duke University, USA
	"The importance of being social: social interactions, gene regulation, and fitness in nonhuman primates."
16 Nov 2017, 5pm	Frank Rühli	University Zürich, Switzerland
	"Ongoing evolution, how anatomy and physiology changes."
07 Dec 2017, 3pm	Andrew Read	Penn State University, USA
	"When drugs stop working: antimicrobial resistance and what to do about it."
25 Jan 2018, 3pm	Andrea Graham	Princeton University
	"Why do immune systems harm their bearers? From parasite resistance to lupus susceptibility."

The seminar series was organized and hosted by Tobias Lenz & John Baines