Please join us on Thursday, April 16 at noon (AZ time!) for our next CEMinar with Dr. Krystal Tsosie @kstsosie.bsky.social #EvMed asuevents.asu.edu/event/cemina...
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Center for Evolution & Medicine at Arizona State University The mission of the Center for Evolution and Medicine is to accelerate innovations in medicine by bringing evolutionary insights into health and disease.
CONGRATULATIONS to Prof Jeff Jensen for his election as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, joining Regent's Prof Anne Stone & Associate Prof Katie Hinde among CEM Core Faculty with this notable distinction! news.asu.edu/20260326-loc...
5 ASU faculty members named AAAS Fellows | ASU News
Five faculty from Arizona State University have been elected 2025 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The AAAS Fellow honor is a recognition of the societal impacts of ...
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Today is World TB day! To learn more see www.who.int/campaigns/wo... Yes! We can end TB! But support for Science and Treatment is key! #endTB
The last of the three pioneers of great ape studies has died. Galdikas, Fossey, and Goodall dedicated their lives to understanding the lives of these extraordinary creatures.
🦧Very sad news that Dr Birutė Galdikas, world-renowned anthropologist and orangutan researcher, has died at the age of 80 One of the Leakey Trimates she was the first scientist in the world to begin in-depth studies of orangutans The Loss of Professor Birutė Galdikas 👩🔬🏺🧪 www.vdu.lt/en/vmu-commu...
There's still time to have your impact doubled! #SunDevilGivingDay #EvMed #StudentFundraiser
It's #SunDevilGiving day at #ASU! Please consider supporting @evmedasu.bsky.social at tinyurl.com/yfab58n7! Donations will be matched (up to $2k!) and any gift is appreciated!
It's #SunDevilGiving day at #ASU! Please consider supporting @evmedasu.bsky.social at tinyurl.com/yfab58n7! Donations will be matched (up to $2k!) and any gift is appreciated!
Celebrate how an evolutionary lens enhances innovation in medicine & human health on #SunDevilGivingDay! Your donation to @evmedasu.bsky.social at #ASU will be matched up to $2000; your small gift is doubled to help us support students! #ChangingFutures tinyurl.com/yfab58n7
This Thursday, March 19 is #SunDevilGiving Day! Please consider donating to @evmedasu.bsky.social at #ASU tinyurl.com/yfab58n7 We have a $2000 match so even a small gift is doubled and will help us support students! #SunDevilGivingDay #ChangingFutures #EvMed #Impact
Your gift on #SunDevilGiving Day will help support students and the amazing work of the Center for Evolution & Medicine (@evmedasu.bsky.social)! (including students like Felicia King shown here in my lab!) #ASU
Next week is #SunDevilGiving Day! Please consider donating to the Center for Evolution & Medicine at ASU (See www.givecampus.com/campaigns/65...) We have a $2000 match so even a small gift is doubled (and appreciated!) #ASU
Support the Center for Evolution and Medicine this #SunDevilGiving Day! We have $2k match, which means your support goes twice as far! check out the really impactful evolutionary medicine work we do at CEM (@evmedasu.bsky.social) evmed.asu.edu
Next week is #SunDevilGiving Day! Please consider donating to the Center for Evolution & Medicine at ASU (See www.givecampus.com/campaigns/65...) We have a $2000 match so even a small gift is doubled (and appreciated!) #ASU
#2026MMM Celebrates Libraries & Librarians! news.asu.edu/20260220-art...
March Mammal Madness returns to celebrate science, storytelling and libraries | ASU News
On a chilly winter afternoon in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania, Victoria Savo is painting a blank tournament bracket on the outside wall of a library. Savo is a library media specialist at Swift...
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You know what's better than science-themed March Mammal Madness Valentines of #2026MMM Combatants!?! Science-themed March Mammal Madness Valentines of combatants that carry ear-worms. They're INFECTIOUS! Download in color or greyscale at the LibGuide libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM...
Evolution, Medicine and Public Health has just started its 14th year. All publications from 2025 are listed with links at the EvMedReview.com substack post. Interesting reading! 🧪 @evmed.bsky.social @evmedasu.bsky.social @tricem.bsky.social www.evmedreview.com/p/evolution-...
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health: All articles published in 2025
EMPH is an open access Oxford University Press journal sponsored by the International Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health
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Para obtener una buena descripción general de lo que el ADN antiguo puede decirnos sobre los patógenos (¡producido por estudiantes de pregrado y posgrado en mi laboratorio!), consulte: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwQP...
Análisis del ADN antiguo: ¿Por qué estudiar enfermedades antiguas?
YouTube video by StoneLab
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For a nice overview of what ancient DNA can tell us about pathogens (produced by undergraduate and graduate students in my lab!) see: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxOE...
Ancient DNA Analysis: Why Study ancient Disease?
YouTube video by StoneLab
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Lovely to work with @blevinske.bsky.social, @paleogenomics.bsky.social & Verena Schuenemann on " Ancient DNA insights into diverse pathogens and their hosts"! Read it at rdcu.be/eSVPN
Ancient DNA insights into diverse pathogens and their hosts
Nature Reviews Genetics - Ancient DNA techniques are being applied to study increasingly diverse pathogens of the past. The authors review the latest insights into pathogen–host coevolution,...
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On Giving Tuesday, we appreciate everyone who transforms our understanding of disease and achieves new approaches to improving human health. Thank you researchers, funders, learners, & donors. Learn more: evmed.asu.edu Contribute: tinyurl.com/5td5vx6s
If you are interested in our research about discovering species with extremely low cancer rates or using ideas from integrated pest management to improve cancer therapy, ASU has a new podcast Lab Coat Optional that featured my work in an episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8r0...
What evolution can teach us about outsmarting cancer, with Carlo Maley
YouTube video by Arizona State University Research
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We are hiring a postdoc to profile the evolvability of tumors in longitudinal samples from three clinical trials as part of the ARPA-H ADAPT program. This is essentially an evolutionary bioinformatics position. If you are interested, please apply here ASAP apply.interfolio.com/172521
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WE HEAR HE'S A FUN GUY! #IRegretNothing You can attend in person or via Zoom! #EvMed
Noon Thursday, November 6th, join us for David Engelthaler's lecture "Cocci and Crypto: Evolving fungi in an evolving world". Prof. Engelthaler is Executive Director of the Health Observatory at ASU & the Director of TGen North @tgenresearch.bsky.social #EvMed asuevents.asu.edu/event/cemina...
WE HEAR HE'S A FUN GUY! #IRegretNothing You can attend in person or via Zoom! #EvMed
Noon Thursday, November 6th, join us for David Engelthaler's lecture "Cocci and Crypto: Evolving fungi in an evolving world". Prof. Engelthaler is Executive Director of the Health Observatory at ASU & the Director of TGen North @tgenresearch.bsky.social #EvMed asuevents.asu.edu/event/cemina...
Noon Thursday, November 6th, join us for David Engelthaler's lecture "Cocci and Crypto: Evolving fungi in an evolving world". Prof. Engelthaler is Executive Director of the Health Observatory at ASU & the Director of TGen North @tgenresearch.bsky.social #EvMed asuevents.asu.edu/event/cemina...
1. Map evolutionary diversity to hack biomedical innovation 2. Revolutionize cancer therapy 3. Target the development of antimicrobial resistance 4. Address Anthropocene-related diseases 5. Support healthier behaviors 6. Improve pandemic responses by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz & Dan Blumstein!
6 ways evolutionary medicine can transform our health
Evolutionary medicine is an emerging interdisciplinary field with huge potential to improve human health and tackle a broad scope of major health challenges.
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"But Nesse – the man who kickstarted it all – says evolutionary medicine still has the power to provide new questions and new answers about disease." #EvMed www.bbc.com/future/artic...
The Darwinian factor in medicine
The relatively new discipline of evolutionary medicine is making strides in the fields of cancer treatment and antibacterial resistance.
bbc.com
"The E.P.A. grant was intended to fund Kipnuk’s river stabilization project for three years. Planning, design & some construction were supposed to happen between June and September, when the river would have thawed enough for barges to bring supplies to the village." It was cancelled last spring 🫠
Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant
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Excited to announce the first ACE Course Design Awards for excellent cultural education teaching. Those award winning classes will be placed in an open teaching repository for anyone looking to enhance cultural evolution content in their courses. culturalevolutionsociety.org/news-and-eve...
ACE Course Design Awardees Announced - Cultural Evolution Society
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There are many great journal covers, but if you're asking about which journal consistently has lovely cover art, it's a bit like asking who was the greatest cinema composer: the line forms behind @currentbiology.bsky.social (and Ennio Morricone)