2018: REP - Darwinian Medicine

Evolutionary theory is a powerful approach to many phenomena encountered by practicing medicine, including antibiotic resistance, personalised medicine, tumour cell evolution. This half-day workshop will explore how an evolutionary approach and medical practice can be mutually informative by pairing evolutionary biologists with medical practitioners from the fields [tentatively]:

• Nutrition and the gut biome
• Virus/human interactions
• Cancer treatment
• Neuro degenerative disorders
• Infectious diseases

This workshop aims to:

• Explore research connections and collaborations between biological and medical researchers (with the possibility of further workshops to develop and foster collaborations around ‘wicked problems’)
• Increase opportunity to meet researchers working on similar topics across faculties
• Identify opportunities to embed Darwinian medicine principles into curriculum
• Build collegial and collaborative relationships across Faculties and with external groups.