ISEMPH 2025 Schedule
Find a searchable schedule here (posters in a separate table below):
| Day | Time | Session | Title | Speaker | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday | 8:00am | Breakfast / Registration | Carmichael Dining Hall | ||
| Tuesday | 8:45am | Welcome and Opening Remarks | Antonis Rokas and Charles Nunn | Carmichael Conference A/B/C | |
| Tuesday | 9:00am - 10:00am | Plenary talk | The eternal disquiet within: The evolution of within-organism conflicts | J. Arvid Ågren | Carmichael Conference A/B/C |
| Tuesday | 10:00am | Coffee Break | Carmichael Dining Hall | ||
| Tuesday | 10:30am | Aging and the Immune System | Evidence for an energetic trade-off model linking inflammation and immune aging | Jacob Aronoff | Rothschild College Theater |
| Tuesday | 10:30am | Use of Technology in Evolutionary Medicine | Omnistatic interactions, missing heritability and the limits of polygenic prediction | Randolph Nesse | Carmichael Conference A/B/C |
| Tuesday | 10:45am | Aging and the Immune System | The evolution of investment in innate-like and diversified T cell receptors across variable life histories | Reese Martin | Rothschild College Theater |
| Tuesday | 10:45am | Use of Technology in Evolutionary Medicine | Wearable Biosensors for High-Resolution Endocrine and Immune Monitoring: Evolutionary and Medical Applications | Mark Flinn | Carmichael Conference A/B/C |
| Tuesday | 11:00am | Aging and the Immune System | Understanding how urban, industrialized lifestyles modulate the immune response in the Orang Asli of Malaysia | Layla Brassington | Rothschild College Theater |
| Tuesday | 11:00am | Use of Technology in Evolutionary Medicine | Introducing PhyloFastStrat: A Computational Methodology for Generating, Testing and Refining Trade-Off Hypotheses | Barbara Natterson-Horowitz | Carmichael Conference A/B/C |
| Tuesday | 11:15am | Use of Technology in Evolutionary Medicine | Tissue-dependency of meQTLs in a free-range population of rhesus macaques | Amy Longtin | Carmichael Conference A/B/C |
| Tuesday | 11:30am | Heterogeneity in aging at the molecular level, within and across mammalian species | Industrialization impacts mechanisms of immunological aging in three non-industrial populations | Marina Watowich | Carmichael Conference A/B/C |
| Tuesday | 11:30am | Teaching Evolution in Medical Education | Evolutionary Medicine in the core human medicine curriculum at the University of Zurich | Frank Rühli | Rothschild College Theater |
| Tuesday | 11:45am | Heterogeneity in aging at the molecular level, within and across mammalian species | Extensive structural variation and longevity-associated adaptations in nearctic Myotis bat | Juan Vazquez | Carmichael Conference A/B/C |
| Tuesday | 11:45am | Teaching Evolution in Medical Education | Clinical strategies inspired by evolutionary adaptations | Gianni Castiglione | Rothschild College Theater |
| Tuesday | 12:00pm | Heterogeneity in aging at the molecular level, within and across mammalian species | Early-life adversity predicts cross-tissue DNA methylation patterns associated with age in rhesus macaques | Rachel Petersen | Carmichael Conference A/B/C |
| Tuesday | 12:00pm | Teaching Evolution in Medical Education | Beyond the Why and How: Missed opportunities for integrating evolutionary biology into medical training | Blair Coe Schweiger | Rothschild College Theater |
| Tuesday | 12:15pm | Heterogeneity in aging at the molecular level, within and across mammalian species | Size-dependent heterogeneity in epigenetic aging of the companion dog | Blaise Mariner | Carmichael Conference A/B/C |
| Tuesday | 12:15pm | Teaching Evolution in Medical Education | Out of Africa: Human ancestry as mandatory medical education | Matthew David | Rothschild College Theater |
| Tuesday | 12:30pm | Lunch | Carmichael Dining Hall | ||
| Tuesday | 12:30pm | Private Meeting | |||
| Tuesday | 1:30pm | The Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Cancer | Cancer as a Model System for Testing Key Evolutionary Concepts | Henry Heng | Carmichael Conference A/B/C |
| Tuesday | 1:45pm | Evolution and Psychology | An Improved Framework for Evolutionary Explanations of Disorder, Exemplified with Autism | Adam Hunt | Rothschild College Theater |
| Tuesday | 1:50pm | The Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Cancer | Targeting stress-induced dormancy in cancer | Jason Somarelli | Carmichael Conference A/B/C |
| Tuesday | 2:00pm | Evolution and Psychology | Is the “loneliness epidemic” another evolutionary mismatch? | Michael Gurven | Rothschild College Theater |
| Tuesday | 2:10pm | The Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Cancer | PhytClust: Automatic Clustering Algorithm for Phylogenetic Trees | Katyayni Ganesan | Carmichael Conference A/B/C |
| Tuesday | 2:15pm | Evolution and Psychology | Genetic and Metabolic Regulation of Repetitive Behavior in the Asocial Cavefish | Masato Yoshizawa | Rothschild College Theater |
| Tuesday | 2:30pm | The Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Cancer | Evolutionarily-Informed Treatment Strategies for Liver Disease and Hepatocellular Carcinoma: An Integrative Approach | Anuraag Bukkuri | Carmichael Conference A/B/C |
| Tuesday | 2:30pm | Evolution and Psychology | Casting Evolutionary Light on Affective Disorders | Barbara Natterson-Horowitz | Rothschild College Theater |
| Tuesday | 2:45pm | How Evolution Shapes Our Neurological Vulnerabilities | Did evolution shape the association between sleep and Alzheimer's disease? Systematic review | Samira Spirig | Rothschild College Theater |
| Tuesday | 2:50pm | The Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Cancer | The Future of Comparative Oncology | Zachary Compton | Carmichael Conference A/B/C |
| Tuesday | 3:00pm | How Evolution Shapes Our Neurological Vulnerabilities | Detecting local adaptation signatures at multiple sclerosis genetic variants using landscape genomics | Chaw Thwe | Rothschild College Theater |
| Tuesday | 3:10pm | The Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Cancer | Discussion | Anuraag Bukkuri | Carmichael Conference A/B/C |
| Tuesday | 3:15pm | How Evolution Shapes Our Neurological Vulnerabilities | Are humans facing a sleep epidemic or enlightenment? Large-scale, industrial societies exhibit long, efficient sleep yet weak circadian function | David Samson | Rothschild College Theater |
| Tuesday | 3:30pm | Coffee Break | Carmichael Dining Hall | ||
| Tuesday | 4:00pm - 5:00pm | Workshop | Developing Evolutionary Medicine: Coordination and Collaboration | Charles Nunn | Carmichael Conference A/B/C |
| Tuesday | 4:00pm | Stress, Development, and Disease: Integrative Approaches in Evolutionary Medicine | Extending the Self-Repair Facilitation Model Across Health Professions: A Pathway for Multidisciplinary Collaboration in Evolutionary Health Science | Chelsea Landolin | Rothschild College Theater |
| Tuesday | 4:15pm | Stress, Development, and Disease: Integrative Approaches in Evolutionary Medicine | Evaluation of novel fecal stress biomarker measurements in human infants | Rebecca Wu | Rothschild College Theater |
| Tuesday | 4:30pm | Stress, Development, and Disease: Integrative Approaches in Evolutionary Medicine | An Evolutionary Perspective on Age of Menarche and Pain Sensitivity in Young Women | Paige Stephanie Prince | Rothschild College Theater |
| Tuesday | 4:45pm | Stress, Development, and Disease: Integrative Approaches in Evolutionary Medicine | On-Campus Dormitories as Viral Transmission Sinks: Phylodynamic Insights into Student Housing Networks During the COVID-19 Pandemic | Juan Bolanos | Rothschild College Theater |
| Tuesday | 5:00pm - 5:30pm | Omenn Prize Talk | Egg donation and gestational surrogacy: pregnancy is riskier with an unrelated embryo | Dakota McCoy | Carmichael Conference A/B/C |
| Tuesday | 5:30pm - 6:00pm | Williams Prize Talk | Host-microbe interactions during pregnancy: A window into basic biology, tradeoffs, and maternal-fetal conflict | Katie Amato | Carmichael Conference A/B/C |
| Tuesday | 6:30pm - 8:00pm | Welcome Reception and Journal Honors | Carmichael Dining Hall | ||
| Wednesday | 8:00am | Breakfast / Registration | Carmichael Dining Hall | ||
| Wednesday | 8:00am | Meetings Meeting | Great Room | ||
| Wednesday | 8:55am | Announcements | Antonis Rokas and Charles Nunn | Carmichael Conference A/B/C | |
| Wednesday | 9:00am - 10:00am | Plenary Talk | Integrative Omics Analysis of GWAS Data Reveals African Ancestry-Specific Functional Variants Associated with Triple-Negative Breast Cancer | Amadou Gaye | Carmichael Conference A/B/C |
| Wednesday | 10:00am | Coffee Break | Carmichael Dining Hall | ||
| Wednesday | 10:30am - 11:30am | Workshop | Developing Evolution-Proof Approaches to Cancer, Infectious Disease, and Vector Control | Charles Nunn | Carmichael Conference A/B/C |
| Wednesday | 10:30am | Pathogen Populations | Market Integration and SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Rural Madagascar | Tyler Barrett | Rothschild College Theater |
| Wednesday | 10:45am | Pathogen Populations | Assessing the Reproducibility of Whole-Microbial Community Evolution of AMR: Unraveling the Contributions of Vertical and Horizontal Gene Transfer in the Gut Microbiome | Lisa Stabryla | Rothschild College Theater |
| Wednesday | 11:00am | Pathogen Populations | Population genetic structure of disease-causing vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium | Camilo Barbosa | Rothschild College Theater |
| Wednesday | 11:15am | Pathogen Populations | Clinical isolates of Aspergillus flavus often display a distinct genomic population structure | E. Anne Hatmaker | Rothschild College Theater |
| Wednesday | 11:30am - 12:30pm | Workshop | Animal reservoirs in the past: OneHealth in historical perspective | Verena Schuenemann | Rothschild College Theater |
| Wednesday | 11:30am | Pathogen Vulnerabilities | Evolutionary Implications of Pathogens’ Vulnerabilities of Proliferation and Localization | Edmund LeGrand | Carmichael Conference A/B/C |
| Wednesday | 11:45am | Pathogen Vulnerabilities | Gallium Resistance: Polymorphisms, Morphology, Pleiotropy and Trade off | Akamu Ewunkem | Carmichael Conference A/B/C |
| Wednesday | 12:00pm | Pathogen Vulnerabilities | Adaptive Mechanisms of Streptococcus mutans to Simulated Microgravity and Antimicrobial Stressors | Misty Thomas | Carmichael Conference A/B/C |
| Wednesday | 12:15pm | Pathogen Vulnerabilities | Serving Two Masters II: Exploring the Adaptive Trade-offs Between Iron Stress and Phage Resistance in E. coli B. | Franklin Chikezie Ezeanowai | Carmichael Conference A/B/C |
| Wednesday | 12:30pm | Lunch | Carmichael Dining Hall | ||
| Wednesday | 12:45pm | Business Meeting | Great Room | ||
| Wednesday | 1:30pm | Education and Outreach Committee Meeting | Great Room | ||
| Wednesday | 2:30pm - 3:00pm | Flash Talks | Rothschild College Theater | ||
| Wednesday | 2:30pm | Perspectives on Evolutionary Health: Mechanisms, Diet, and Outreach | Why we age informs how we age, and how to mitigate it | Paul Turke | Carmichael Conference A/B/C |
| Wednesday | 2:45pm | Perspectives on Evolutionary Health: Mechanisms, Diet, and Outreach | Pathogen-Specific Immune Exposure and Telomere Length: Insights from the Bolivian Amazon | Emily Cobb | Carmichael Conference A/B/C |
| Wednesday | 3:00pm | Perspectives on Evolutionary Health: Mechanisms, Diet, and Outreach | Natural History and Medical Museums as Venues for Evolutionary Medicine | Noel Boaz | Carmichael Conference A/B/C |
| Wednesday | 3:15pm | Perspectives on Evolutionary Health: Mechanisms, Diet, and Outreach | An Evolutionary Nutrition Framework for Understanding and Addressing Modern Chronic Disease | Reya Andrews | Carmichael Conference A/B/C |
| Wednesday | 3:30pm | Coffee Break | Carmichael Dining Hall | ||
| Wednesday | 4:00pm - 5:00pm | Poster Session | Carmichael Conference A/B/C and Corridor | ||
| Wednesday | 5:00pm - 6:00pm | Plenary talk | Selective Pressures and Resistance Evolution in Mosquito Populations: Challenges and Opportunities | Silvie Huijben | Carmichael Conference A/B/C |
| Wednesday | 6:00pm - 8:30pm | Conference Dinner | Acme Feed and Seed | ||
| Thursday | 8:00am | Breakfast / Registration | Carmichael Dining Hall | ||
| Thursday | 8:55am | Announcements | Antonis Rokas and Charles Nunn | Carmichael Conference A/B/C | |
| Thursday | 9:00am - 10:00am | Plenary talk | HPV and Cervical Cancer: How Evolved are We? | Amelia Jernigan | Carmichael Conference A/B/C |
| Thursday | 10:00am | Coffee Break | Carmichael Dining Hall | ||
| Thursday | 10:30am | Panel Discussion | EvMed Patient Case Discussion | Michelle Blyth | Carmichael Conference A/B/C |
| Thursday | 10:30am | Cancer and Evolution | Neoplasia prevalence in non-human primates: evidence in support of Peto's Paradox | Janine Rose Kelin | Rothschild College Theater |
| Thursday | 10:45am | Cancer and Evolution | Molecular Evolution of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Cells In Vivo | Md. Iftehimul | Rothschild College Theater |
| Thursday | 11:00am | Cancer and Evolution | Glioblastoma across the tree of life: animal insights for human medicine | Catherine Jung | Rothschild College Theater |
| Thursday | 11:30am | Evolutionary Medicine meets Museomics | The potential and implementation of museum samples in ancient pathogen genomics | Kerttu Majander | Carmichael Conference A/B/C |
| Thursday | 11:30am | Early Life History and Reproductive Strategies | Follicular versus Luteal Phase Sexual Behavior: Patterns Supporting Relationship Maintenance | Katherine Ward | Rothschild College Theater |
| Thursday | 11:45am | Evolutionary Medicine meets Museomics | A Historian in an Adventure with Scientists: Bridging history and palaeogenomics | Kathleen Walker-Meikle | Carmichael Conference A/B/C |
| Thursday | 11:45am | Early Life History and Reproductive Strategies | Gestation Length as an Evolutionary Driver of Brain Size and Litter Size Variation in Eutherian Mammals | Thodoris Danis | Rothschild College Theater |
| Thursday | 12:00pm | Evolutionary Medicine meets Museomics | Museomics on ancient RNA viruses: elucidating the past of a hidden group of pathogens | Verena Schuenemann | Carmichael Conference A/B/C |
| Thursday | 12:00pm | Early Life History and Reproductive Strategies | A Bioinspired Approach to Fertility Preservation: Evolved Adaptations in H. glaber Could Protect Pediatric Cancer Patients from Infertility | Kathryn Stevens | Rothschild College Theater |
| Thursday | 12:15pm | Evolutionary Medicine meets Museomics | Ethical considerations for genetic research of pathogens from medical and museum collections. | Anne Stone | Carmichael Conference A/B/C |
| Thursday | 12:15pm | Early Life History and Reproductive Strategies | Impacts of heat stress on early child growth in a Bangladeshi fishing and trading community | Katie Starkweather | Rothschild College Theater |
| Thursday | 12:30pm | Lunch | Carmichael Dining Hall | ||
| Thursday | 1:30pm - 3:30pm | Panel Discussion | For Many Students, Evolutionary Concepts Are Hard to Grasp: How Evolutionary Medicine Can Help | Jay Labov, Joseph Graves, Barbara Natterson Horowitz, Randolph M. Nesse | Carmichael Conference A/B/C |
| Thursday | 1:30pm | Evolutionary Insights into Reproduction | Impacts of social support on pregnancy outcomes among nulliparous US women | Monica Keith | Rothschild College Theater |
| Thursday | 1:45pm | Evolutionary Insights into Reproduction | Life at the confluence of evolution and labor: a high-altitude case study | Taylor Harman | Rothschild College Theater |
| Thursday | 2:00pm | Evolutionary Insights into Reproduction | Reduced breastfeeding in extreme humid heat as an adaptive response to hyperthermia risk in infants | Haley Ragsdale | Rothschild College Theater |
| Thursday | 2:15pm | Evolutionary Insights into Reproduction | Born Later: An Evolutionary Strategy for Healthy Pregnancy | Dana Lin | Rothschild College Theater |
| Thursday | 2:30pm | How Evolution Shaped Our Physiology | Glucose 6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency and its Association with Hypertension among the Angami Naga of North-east India: An Evolutionary Overview | Sudipta Ghosh | Rothschild College Theater |
| Thursday | 2:45pm | How Evolution Shaped Our Physiology | Hypoxemia: distinguishing symptoms from adaptations | Joe Alcock | Rothschild College Theater |
| Thursday | 3:00pm | How Evolution Shaped Our Physiology | Human Hypertension Considered as an Evolutionary Mismatch Involving Dietary Potassium | R. Brooks Robey | Rothschild College Theater |
| Thursday | 3:30pm | Coffee Break | Carmichael Dining Hall | ||
| Thursday | 4:00pm - 5:00pm | Panel Discussion | Public Communication and Science Writing Panel | Carmichael Conference A/B/C | |
| Thursday | 5:00pm - 6:00pm | Plenary Talk | Antibiotic Resistance Evolution in Enterococcus faecium,a Pathogen Specializing on the Healthcare Environment | Robert Woods | Carmichael Conference A/B/C |
Find the list of posters here:
| Poster Number | Title | Name | General Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 (A/B/C) | Parkinson's Disease and Cancer: A Meta-Analysis of Prevalence, Risk, and Specific Associations with Brain and Skin Cancers | Hamza Khelifa | Neurobiology, Behavior, and Mental Health |
| 2 (A/B/C) | Interactions between the Val66Met BDNF Polymorphism and Vigorous Physical Activity on Brain Volume in Middle-Aged and Older Adults | Anamika Nanda | Neurobiology, Behavior, and Mental Health |
| 3 (A/B/C) | Evolutionary Clues to PTSD: How Cortisol and Inflammation Shape Divergent Stress Responses | Edward Thum | Neurobiology, Behavior, and Mental Health |
| 4 (A/B/C) | The Difference in Industrial and Post-Industrial Mental Health Outcomes as they Relate to Teens in 2023 Experiencing Hopelessness and Sadness Through Social Engagement | Sheila Moore | Neurobiology, Behavior, and Mental Health |
| 5 (A/B/C) | Evolution of the Excessively Activated Behavioural Immune System: A Game-theoretic Perspective | Myung Jin Kim | Neurobiology, Behavior, and Mental Health |
| 6 (A/B/C) | Life History Theory of the Behavioural Immune System: A Theoretical Perspective | Myung Jin Kim | Neurobiology, Behavior, and Mental Health |
| 7 (A/B/C) | Oxytocin and cortisol: An evolved cocktail for grief resolution? | Shreyas Srinivasan | Neurobiology, Behavior, and Mental Health |
| 8 (A/B/C) | An Evolutionary Narrative Learning Approach to Mastering the MCAT Exam | Noel Boaz | Neurobiology, Behavior, and Mental Health |
| 9 (A/B/C) | Climate Change, Youth Mental Health, and Evolutionary Mismatch: Rethinking Public Health Responses in a Warming World | Munachimso Njasi | Neurobiology, Behavior, and Mental Health |
| 10 (A/B/C) | How our evolutionary defenses provide a win-win for the war | Alonzo "Lon" Jones | Immunity, Infectious Disease, and Host-Pathogen Dynamics |
| 11 (A/B/C) | Investigating protein translation kinetics during the innate immune response through mathematical modeling | Allyson Ray | Immunity, Infectious Disease, and Host-Pathogen Dynamics |
| 12 (A/B/C) | Beyond Nutritional Immunity: Harming Pathogens by Restricting All Nutrients and Creating Noxious Waste | Edmund LeGrand | Immunity, Infectious Disease, and Host-Pathogen Dynamics |
| 13 (A/B/C) | Evolutionary Mismatch and Metabolic Disease in a Transitioning Pastoralist Population | Emma Gerlinger | Immunity, Infectious Disease, and Host-Pathogen Dynamics |
| 14 (A/B/C) | Evolutionary Trade-Offs Between Antimicrobial Resistance and Virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa | Surajit Pal | Immunity, Infectious Disease, and Host-Pathogen Dynamics |
| 15 (A/B/C) | Evolutionary Adaptation of T7 Bacteriophage to High Silver Ion Concentrations: Implications for Antimicrobial Resistance | Larisa Chila Kiki | Immunity, Infectious Disease, and Host-Pathogen Dynamics |
| 16 (A/B/C) | Bacteriophage Phi6: Insights into Growth Kinetics and Life History Traits | Laurissa Miller | Immunity, Infectious Disease, and Host-Pathogen Dynamics |
| 17 (A/B/C) | Fitness Costs of Antibiotic Resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae: Competitive Interactions with Escherichia coli Nissle | Nathan Steffens | Immunity, Infectious Disease, and Host-Pathogen Dynamics |
| 18 (A/B/C) | Evolution of pathogens against variable immune responses | Rayshaun Pettit | Immunity, Infectious Disease, and Host-Pathogen Dynamics |
| 19 (A/B/C) | Evolutionary Dynamics of Pathogens and Resistance Genes in Wastewater: Insights from Metagenomic Profiling for Public Health Surveillance | Ugonna Morikwe | Immunity, Infectious Disease, and Host-Pathogen Dynamics |
| 20 (A/B/C) | Phylogenetic Prediction of Host Range in Cystoviruses | Enoch Ghosh | Immunity, Infectious Disease, and Host-Pathogen Dynamics |
| 21 (A/B/C) | A sticky situation: how selection for biofilm formation enables coevolution of phage and host | Fahareen Mosharraf | Immunity, Infectious Disease, and Host-Pathogen Dynamics |
| 22 (A/B/C) | Genotypic and Phenotypic variation is inconsistent with clinical presentation in Aspergillus section Fumigati | Thomas Sauters | Immunity, Infectious Disease, and Host-Pathogen Dynamics |
| 23 (A/B/C) | Investigating Gene Regulation and Neurogenesis Differences in Humans and Chimpanzees Through Analysis of 2D Differentiations and Mouse Embryonic Model | Katie Lam | Immunity, Infectious Disease, and Host-Pathogen Dynamics |
| 24 (A/B/C) | Human-microbial interactions in pre-colonial South America: Insights from paleogenomics research at La Real, Peru | Katie McCormack | Immunity, Infectious Disease, and Host-Pathogen Dynamics |
| 25 (Corridor) | Energy limitation during early life impairs fat oxidation: evidence from children and adolescents in Vanuatu | Khaled Bhuiyan | Evolutionary Medicine, Chronic Disease, and Anatomy |
| 26 (Corridor) | Assessing the Effects of Obesity and Pregnancy on Disc Degeneration and Lumbar Lordosis | Eileen Hansa | Evolutionary Medicine, Chronic Disease, and Anatomy |
| 27 (Corridor) | Tolerance for Variation and Asymmetry in the Lumbar Spine | Katherine Whitcome | Evolutionary Medicine, Chronic Disease, and Anatomy |
| 28 (Corridor) | A Phylogenetic Lens on Disuse Osteoporosis: Insights into Vulnerability and Resistance Across the Tree of Life | Elizabeth Roux | Evolutionary Medicine, Chronic Disease, and Anatomy |
| 29 (Corridor) | An Evolutionary Nutrition Framework for Understanding and Addressing Modern Chronic Disease | Reya Andrews | Evolutionary Medicine, Chronic Disease, and Anatomy |
| 30 (Corridor) | Superseding evolutionary mismatch: adaptive contingency in medicine | Matthew David | Evolutionary Medicine, Chronic Disease, and Anatomy |
| 31 (Corridor) | Moving beyond mismatch: preliminary results from the Vietnam Health & Aging Study | Melanie Martin | Evolutionary Medicine, Chronic Disease, and Anatomy |
| 32 (Corridor) | Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha and Adiponectin: Insulin-Treatment Failure in Diabetic patients | George Ikomey | Evolutionary Medicine, Chronic Disease, and Anatomy |
| 33 (Corridor) | The Origins of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) | Jack Silvera | Evolutionary Medicine, Chronic Disease, and Anatomy |
| 34 (Corridor) | Uncovering a Novel Rhodopsin Protective Mechanism Through Biochemical Analysis | Nadir Dbouk | Molecular Mechanisms & Biophysical Models |
| 35 (Corridor) | Investigating the anti-proliferative effects of Cnidoscolus aconitifolius leaf extracts on Breast Cancer Cells | Tolulope Ajayi | Molecular Mechanisms & Biophysical Models |
| 36 (Corridor) | Biophysical modeling of molecular mechanisms of antifungal drug resistance | David Rinker | Molecular Mechanisms & Biophysical Models |
| 37 (Corridor) | Biophysical modeling of molecular mechanisms of antifungal drug resistance | Marie-Claire Harrison | Molecular Mechanisms & Biophysical Models |
| 38 (Corridor) | Evolutionary Dynamics and Health Consequences of Pleiotropic Genes Involved in Both Immunity and Neuronal Function | Sowmya Senthilkumar | Molecular Mechanisms & Biophysical Models |
| 39 (Corridor) | Exploring The Role Of Pleiotropy In The Adaptive Mechanisms Of Silver-Resistant E. Coli | Theresa Jones | Molecular Mechanisms & Biophysical Models |
| 40 (Corridor) | Information Flow Driving Evolution: How Information Self-Creation and Preservation Increase the Complexity of Information and Its Carriers | Henry Heng | Molecular Mechanisms & Biophysical Models |
| 41 (Corridor) | Mapping the genetic architecture of infection response in the Orang Asli of Malaysia | Jonathan Lifferth | Molecular Mechanisms & Biophysical Models |
| 42 (Corridor) | Agent-Based Analysis of Adolescent Subfecundity: The Role of Male Fidelity and Demographic Constraints | Minwook Kim | Molecular Mechanisms & Biophysical Models |
| 43 (Corridor) | Considering Evolutionary Medicine and the HPRT deficiencies: Do the Lesch Nyhan diseases use the same mechanism as Uricase to maximize reproductive success? | Gary Eddey | Molecular Mechanisms & Biophysical Models |
| 44 (Corridor) | Testing the Diametrical Model in a Small-Scale Subsistence Society | Camila Scaff | Evolutionary Perspectives, Social Factors, & Education |
| 45 (Corridor) | Exploring the effects of hierarchical systems on psychosocial stress and professional satisfaction in healthcare | Elsa Mueller-Filipas | Evolutionary Perspectives, Social Factors, & Education |
| 46 (Corridor) | What Role Do Grandmothers Play in Birth Outcomes? | Madigan Durham | Evolutionary Perspectives, Social Factors, & Education |
| 47 (Corridor) | Surface Anatomy: An Overlooked Tool in Teaching Clinical Medicine for Undergraduate Students | Shamail Elmustafa | Evolutionary Perspectives, Social Factors, & Education |
| 48 (Corridor) | AI-Assisted Chest X-ray Interpretation for Tuberculosis Presumption in Low- and Middle-Income Countries | Pascal Mugemangango | Artificial Intelligence in Medicine |
| 49 (Corridor) | Artificial intelligence in ophthalmology | Vesna Radovic | Artificial Intelligence in Medicine |