Session: Evolution and Ecology: Impacting the Health of our Planet and Ourselves (Science, Technology, and Diversity for a Healthy World)

Friday, October 12, 2012: 10:15 AM-11:45 AM

614 (WSCC)

Chair:

Jory Weintraub, PhD, Assistant Director, Education and Outreach, National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent)

Description: This symposium explores ways that research in evolution and ecology can impact human health by helping us understand, diagnose, prevent, treat and cure disease, and protect the fragile food chain of which we are all a part.

Sponsored by: NESCent

10:15 AM

Introductory Remarks

10:20 AM

From Environmental Adaptation in Plants to Human Disease: The Widespread Genomic Effects of Junk DNA
Kate Hertweck, PhD , Postdoctoral Fellow , National Evolutionary Synthesis Center

10:40 AM

Epidemiology Meets Ecology: How Understanding Insects Helps Fight Disease
Calistus Ngonghala, PhD , Postdoctoral Fellow , NIMBioS: National Insitute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis

11:00 AM

Viral Evolution, HIV and AIDS: Exploring the Connection between Evolution and Health
Joshua Herbeck, PhD , Acting Instructor and Associate Director of the Computational Biology Core , University of Washington

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