BIONB 4270 - [Darwinian Medicine]

Fall. (Offered alternate years) 4 credits. Letter grades only.

Prerequisite: BIONB 2210 and BIOEE 1610 or BIOEE 1780, and permission of instructor. Next offered 2012-2013. Permission of instructor is required. Limited to 30 students.

P. W. Sherman, J. Shellman Sherman.

Writing-intensive advanced course for upper-division students interested in Darwinian Medicine. Lectures, discussions, and student presentations examine topics including adaptation, intra-genomic conflict, evolution of infectious disease, genetic diseases, virulence, sexuality, MHC, auto-immunity, stress, diet and disease, allergy, fetal programming, morning sickness, lactose intolerance, depression and other mental illness, cancer, menopause, and senescence.