Institute of Evolutionary Medicine (IEM)
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Official Twitter Page of the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine (IEM) at the University of Zürich @UZH_en
University of Zurich, CH
Joined April 2011
#IEMevents: Exciting seminar by Robert Cox on sexual dimorphism at the intersection of Evolutionary genetics and Endocrinology
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#IEMevents: excellent seminar this evening by Raphaëlle Chaix and Léa Guyon on kinship and genetic diversity. Turns out that you don't need warfare to explain the neolithic bottleneck in Y chromosome, and that purging deleterious alleles through inbreeding doesn't work for humans
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Join us for a unique academic workshop! July 2024, Erice, Sicily, bridging modern genetics and evolutionary psychiatry. World-leading experts attending, lunch & dinner at many local restaurants included, beautiful views, excellent company! Please repost! https://t.co/cyZXeqNrT0
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Where is #EvolutionaryMedicine headed? This superbly-produced video from @frontiersin provides fascinating prognostications from leaders in the field. My talk describes why two main lines of work remain separate, and how selection forces in the academy shape systems that maximize
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Prof. Maciej Henneberg, long-standing IEM Academic Guest & friend, has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Lodz. We are very happy for you, Maciej, you deserve it!
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The meeting was a great success, and we thank all of our guests for their interesting contributions, and a lot of networking! A big thank you to the organisers as well as Dean Frank Rühli for speaking to our group.
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Epidemiologist Ana Maria Vicedo Cabrera has received a #StartingGrant from @snsf_ch. With her project, she wants to study the #impacts of extreme humid #heat on human #health. #Climatechange will increasingly make this a problem: https://t.co/Tqx4vIbTl9.
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THE PUBLIC HEALTH APPROACH Excited to report that my coming book about the evolution of the public health approach has a website https://t.co/y0gRl6bJ1y Check the reviews by #AlSommer
@DrRichBesser
@LauraMagVall
@JeromeAdamsMD
@mfraserdc1
@AMJPublicHealth @AJPHThinkTank
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Only one month left to go until the 5th International Evolutionary Psychiatry Symposium on 10 March at the RCPsych, London. Speakers include @nicholaraihani, @C_A_Soper, @AgnesAyton, @muzafferkaser, @LaithAlShawaf and more! Find out more and book here: https://t.co/niTakkrAft
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#IEMpubs: Review paper on personality in social behavior by @Jordan_SMartin, @JaeggiAdrian and Sonja Koski out now in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
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How can evolutionary and engineering approaches to understanding failures help each other? I can't wait to hear what the world leaders in this area come up with. Join us. @ISEMPH @theNAMedicine @theNASciences @evmedasu @evmed_ch @scienceirel @TriCEM_NC
December 5th- 6th, 11:30 a.m- 3:30 p.m. ET: @theNAEng Forum on Complex and Unifiable Systems (FOCUS) webinar will explore "Integrating Evolutionary and Engineering Approaches to Failure Analyses." Find the meeting agenda and register to attend here: https://t.co/PmPIg8aSgU
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To our colleagues @uzh_en and @ETH_en : Maybe you might be interested in the interfaculty launch event of the UZH Centre for Crisis Competence, entitled "Can we Crisis?" (Nov. 22). More information below ⬇️( https://t.co/tDcHJpBKQW).
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All 21 episodes of Evolving Psychiatry are now out! Published today, Alfonso Troisi discusses how evolutionary approaches should make us think about diagnosis and treatment. Binge them, share them! And a second season will be beginning soon....
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#IEMevents: our #EvMed seminar series kicks off with @kkshimizu1 talking about the evolution of plants, their pathogens, and languages
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Evolutionary Psychiatry needs a podcast—I've started one! Beginning with 21 episodes (released daily from today!) from top thinkers such as Randolph Nesse, Robin Dunbar and Martin Brüne, on topics ranging from anxiety and alcohol to hunter-gatherer life https://t.co/g0EasOXm15 🧵
adamhunt.info
The Evolving Psychiatry podcast aims to convey key concepts and findings from evolutionary psychiatry in a manner which is accessible to an uninitiated audience, of either the general public or...
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Our director @frankruehli is giving right now a very interesting update on recent research carried out in Egypt at #wmc2022 in #Bolzano #southtyrol organized by @EURAC. @evmed_ch @PatrickEppenbe2 #Paleopathologyandmummystudiesgroup
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Woohoo! Happy to say my paper with @JaeggiAdrian on how evolved cognitive specialisation could explain personality and psychopathology is 'most read' on the Evolutionary Human Sciences journal website atm! 🥳🥳🥳 Check it out if you haven't already ;-) https://t.co/lvAVmGV0kw
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#IEMmedia: "What we can learn from mummies" - An entire episode of @SRF #Einstein dedicated to the research of Frank Rühli and the IEM in Egypt. @UZH_en
https://t.co/fLSnqV3F8w
srf.ch
Mumien aus dem alten Ägypten konservieren Krankheitserreger und Krankheitssymptome wie Zeitkapseln. Ein Glücksfall für die Medizin. Was können Forschende dank den jahrtausendalten Pharaonen-Körpern...
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