Sunday, May 27, 2012

Evolutionary Medicine Conference Tue May 8 at Stanford

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New Opportunities at the Intersection of Evolution and Medicine
A gathering of scientists and entrepreneurs


8:00 – 8:30 Coffee and Registration


8:30 – 8:50 Welcome
Charles Cho, MD, Associate Professor Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University

Introductory Remarks by Joon Yun, MD, Palo Alto Investors and David Sloan Wilson, Binghamton University


8:50 – 9:30 Keynote Address
Evolutionary Medicine: Envisioning the Opportunities
Keynote Address by Randolph M. Nesse, MD, University of Michigan


9:30 – 10:10 Session One: Infectious Disease
Evolution Proof Pharmaceuticals?
Andrew F. Read, Penn State


Panel discussion to follow moderated by David Sloan Wilson, Binghamton University
Panelists include James Holland Jones, Stanford University, and Nina Kjellson, Interwest


10:10 – 10:40 Break


10:40 – 11:45 Session Two: Cancer
Why Evolution Holds the Key to Curing and Preventing Cancer
Carlo C Maley, University of California at San Francisco


The Evolution and Ecology of Metastasis: Can we Control Cancer by Targeting Dispersal Evolution?
Athena Aktipis, Arizona State University, UCSF Center for Evolution and Cancer


Panel discussion to follow moderated by Randolph M. Nesse
Panelists include Daniel S. Fisher, Stanford University


11:45 – 12:30 Session Three: Application of a Specific Theory
Using Drugs to Induce Adaptation
Introduced and moderated by Joon Yun, MD, Palo Alto Investors


Panelists include Ray Onders, Synapse; Lorenzo DiCarlo, Proteus Biomedical; Richard A. Bond, University of Houston; Kari Nadeau, Stanford University


12:30 – 1:30 Lunch


1:30 – 2:15 Session Four: Behavior
Improving Health by Changing Behavior: Evolution Science Shows How
Steven C. Hayes, University of Nevada


Panel discussion to follow moderated by David Sloan Wilson
Panelists include William H. Durham, Stanford University, and Camille Samuels, Versant Ventures


2:15 – 3:00 Session Five: Genetics and Mental Disorders
Where Darwin meets Freud: Psychiatric Conditions and Therapies at the Dawn of Evolutionary Genomics.
Bernie Crespi, Simon Fraser University


Panel discussion to follow moderated by Randolph M. Nesse
Panelists include Charles Cho, MD, Associate Professor Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University


3:00 – 3:30 Break


3:30 – 4:15 Session Six: Diet
What did Humans Evolve to Eat? Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Nutritional Health
William R. Leonard, Northwestern University


Panel discussion to follow moderated by David Sloan Wilson
Panelists include Dr. John Morton, Stanford University, and Scott Wolf, Aerin Medical


4:15 – 5:00 Session Seven: Aging
Can we Have it All? What Evolutionary Biology Says about Medically Slowing Aging.
Steven Austad, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio


Panel discussion to follow moderated by Joon Yun, MD, Palo Alto Investors
Panelists include Jim Glasheen, Technology Partner


5:00 – 5:15 Wrap


5:30 – 6:30 Cocktails & Networking


Full information available here


 

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