Dear ISEMPH members and newsletter subscribers

As we received a pleasingly high number of abstracts for ISEMPH 2026 in Kiel, we postponed the abstract notification deadline to April 15, and the early bird registration deadline to May 1.

Please be aware that further abstract submissions are still possible, but only for posters.

Please find the latest news on the program and logistics here. Stay tuned to learn more about Williams Prize and Omenn Prize winners soon!

See you all in Kiel!

Best wishes, ISEMPH

1. Updates on the ISEMPH Annual Meeting 2026 in Kiel, Germany. The early bird fee registration is still open, please check ISEMPH - 2026 in Kiel, Germany for information and registration. We have 5 confirmed keynote speakers:

• Johannes Krause – Max Planck Institute Jena, Germany

• Trevor Graham – Institute of Cancer Research London, UK

• Lynette Leidy Sievert – UMass Amherst, USA

• Brendan Bohannan – Univ. of Oregon, USA

• Marisa Azad – Univ. of Ottawa, Canada

The regular abstract submission is now closed, but late breaking abstracts will still be accepted, as posters only.

The travel award decision announcement is ongoing now.

Further deadlines:

· March 15: Omenn Prize nomination deadline. Please use this link to submit your nomination(s).

· April 1, 2026: Abstract decision announcement

· April 15, 2026: Early-bird registration deadline; all presenters must be registered and paid

· June 15, 2026: Regular registration deadline

2. A new ISEMPH logo poll was launched, please participate here.

3. Join ClubEvMed to engage with short talks on cutting-edge evolutionary medicine research by leaders in the field https://sites.duke.edu/clubevmed/upcoming/

The next Club EvMed, on March 30^th at 12:30 pm EST, is titled How vulnerable is gestation? A critical reappraisal of the Dutch Hunger Winter studies and will be presented by Dr. Chris Kuzawa and Sasha Post from Harvard. The link to register is https://duke.zoom.us/meeting/register/jhGq-CZJSn2Re7kmcAya2g

4. Consider publishing in EMPH. The call for the new special issue: Microbial Evolution: Impacts on Human Health is still open.

Call for Papers: Microbial Evolution: Impacts on Human Health | Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health | Oxford Academic

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Confirmed keynote speakers

• Johannes Krause – Max Planck Institute Jena, Germany

• Trevor Graham – Institute of Cancer Research London, UK

• Lynette Leidy Sievert – UMass Amherst, USA

• Brendan Bohannan – Univ. of Oregon, USA

• Marisa Azad – Univ. of Ottawa, Canada

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  Deadlines:

• March 1, 2026: Abstract submission deadline and travel award decision announcement

• April 1, 2026: Abstract decision announcement

• April 15, 2026: Early-bird registration deadline; all presenters must be registered and paid

• June 15, 2026: Regular registration deadline

Helpful links

• General info about Kiel

• Venue

• Travel information

• Hotels

• Banquet and other optional activities

• Registration

• Abstract submission

• Confirmed speakers

• Program

Program Committee

• Michelle Blyth, Louisiana State University School of Medicine New Orleans, USA

• Emily Emmott, University College London, UK

• Manuel Irimia, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain

• Monica Kidd, physician in Calgary, Canada

• Susie Lee, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany

• Michael Muehlenbein, Baylor University, USA

• Dipongkor Saha, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, USA

• Lisa Stabryla, University of Illinois Chicago, USA

• Misty Thomas, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, USA

Local Executive Committee

• John Baines, Christian Albrecht University of Kiel, Germany

• Barbara Cania, Christian Albrecht University of Kiel, Germany

• Hinrich Schulenburg, Christian Albrecht University of Kiel, Germany

Confirmed keynote speakers

• Johannes Krause – Max Planck Institute Jena, Germany

• Trevor Graham – Institute of Cancer Research London, UK

• Lynette Leidy Sievert – UMass Amherst, USA

• Brendan Bohannan – Univ. of Oregon, USA

• Marisa Azad – Univ. of Ottawa, Canada

  Subscribe now

  Deadlines:

• March 1, 2026: Abstract submission deadline and travel award decision announcement

• April 1, 2026: Abstract decision announcement

• April 15, 2026: Early-bird registration deadline; all presenters must be registered and paid

• June 15, 2026: Regular registration deadline

Helpful links

• General info about Kiel

• Venue

• Travel information

• Hotels

• Banquet and other optional activities

• Registration

• Abstract submission

• Confirmed speakers

• Program

Program Committee

• Michelle Blyth, Louisiana State University School of Medicine New Orleans, USA

• Emily Emmott, University College London, UK

• Manuel Irimia, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain

• Monica Kidd, physician in Calgary, Canada

• Susie Lee, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany

• Michael Muehlenbein, Baylor University, USA

• Dipongkor Saha, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, USA

• Lisa Stabryla, University of Illinois Chicago, USA

• Misty Thomas, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, USA

Local Executive Committee

• John Baines, Christian Albrecht University of Kiel, Germany

• Barbara Cania, Christian Albrecht University of Kiel, Germany

• Hinrich Schulenburg, Christian Albrecht University of Kiel, Germany

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Most EvMedReview posts are short, but this one has to be long because it lists all of the articles published in Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health in 2025-the journal’s 13th year! Vaughn Cooper, the Executive Editor, is glad to hear from authors about possible submissions. Now that anyone can publish anything anytime, why do we need journals? For readers, they filter the best work in a field and put it in one journal so you can find it. For authors, suggested edits turn good-enough articles into polished gold. EMPH reviewers are especially helpful in this regard.

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Below is a list of EMPH publications published in 2025, with links.
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Volume 13: 2025

Regulating community well-being through traditional mourning rituals: Insights from the Luhya People of Kenya

Stephen Asatsa and others
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 140–150, https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoaf012

Retraction and replacement of: Regulating community well-being through traditional mourning rituals: Insights from the Luhya People of Kenya

Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2025, Page 151, https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoaf013

Mental Health in Non-Industrialized Populations

Original Research Articles

RETRACTED AND REPLACED: Regulating community well-being through traditional mourning rituals: Insights from the Luhya People of Kenya

Stephen Asatsa and others
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 14–24, https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoaf001

Little evidence that posttraumatic stress is associated with diurnal hormone dysregulation in Turkana pastoralists

Matthew R Zefferman and others
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 77–91, https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoaf004

Assessing subclinical psychopathological and personality traits in a small-scale subsistence society

Camila Scaff and others
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 413–423, https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoaf033

Evolution of water needs, heat stress, and climate change

Review

Climate change, evolution, and reproductive health: The impact of water insecurity and heat stress on pregnancy and lactation

Michaela Howells and others
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 125–139,

Original Articles

Physical activity and heat stress shape water needs in pregnant endurance athletes

Srishti Sadhir and others
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 25–34, https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoaf003

High water turnover, hydration status, and heat stress among Daasanach pastoralists in a hot, semi-arid climate

Amanda McGrosky and others
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 215–228, https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoaf017

EXPLORING ECO-EVO APPLICATIONS IN CANCER

Original Articles

Dual targeting of conserved cell cycle and transcription programs in advanced colorectal cancer by fadraciclib

Mohammad Zokaasadi and others
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 281–290, https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoaf021

Commentary

Rethinking cancer evolution: from genetic mutations to complex information systems in tumor reversion

Mesut Tez
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 1–4, https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoae032

The Elephant and the Spandrel

Zachary T Compton and others
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 92–100, https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoae019

Leveraging selection for function in tumor evolution: System-level cancer therapies

Frédéric Thomas and others
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 248–268, https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoaf022

Reviews

An evolutionary medicine and life history perspective on aging and disease: Trade-offs, hyperfunction, and mismatch

Jacob E Aronoff and Benjamin C Trumble
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 111–124, https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoaf010

Evolutionary medicine of emunctory functions of the kidney: an empirical review

Noel T Boaz and Robert L Chevalier
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 229–247, https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoaf019

Maternal-fetal conflict and the timing of birth

Andrew I Furness
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 292–306, https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoaf023

Proximate and ultimate causes of pregnancy sickness

Daniel J Stadtmauer
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 307–330, https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoaf025

When parental care hurts: extended parental care and the evolution of overparenting

David W Lawson and Zhian Chen
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 331–343, https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoaf027

Original Research Articles

Vanishing twins, selection in utero, and infant mortality in the United States

Ralph Catalano and others
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 5–13, https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoae035

Influence of betel nut chewing on oral microbiome in Papua New Guinea

Nicolas Brucato and others
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 36–44, https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoae030
Editor’s Choice

Birth and household exposures are associated with changes to skin bacterial communities during infancy

Melissa B Manus and others
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 49–76, https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoae023
Editor’s Choice

Waning immunity drives respiratory virus evolution and reinfection

James J Bull and others
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 101–110, https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoaf002

Breastfeeding and parents’ socioeconomic status buffer dental developmental stress in female infants

Emily Moes
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 140–153, https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoaf011

A test of the Archaic Homo Introgression Hypothesis for the Chiari malformation type I

Kimberly Plomp and others
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 154–166, https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoaf009

Within-host population dynamics of extensively drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis revealed by an over 3-year longitudinal study

Peng Xu and others
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 167–175, https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoaf014

Survival, resistance, and fitness dynamics of Escherichia coli populations after prolonged exposure to copper

Sada Boyd-Vorsah and others
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 176–187, https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoaf015

‘Everyone in my family has C-sections’: increased likelihood of caesarean birth in family lineages in the United States

Kathleen M Hanlon-Lundberg
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 188–200, https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoaf018

Higher blood lipid levels after the transition to menopause in two forager-horticulturalist populations

M J Getz and others
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 201–214, https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoaf020

Of scents and cytokines: How olfactory and food aversions relate to nausea and immunomodulation in early pregnancy

Dayoon Kwon and others
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 269–280, https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoaf016

Conceptualizing emergent animal farming and infectious diseases: a One Health framework

Robin Bendrey and others
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 344–354, https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoaf029

Social learning is critical to breastfeeding success: Evidence from rural Namibian pastoralists

Brooke A Scelza
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 344–354, https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoaf030

Evolutionary origins of spinal cord tumors: A cross-species systematic review

Gabriel Urreola and others
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 365–373, https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoaf028

Sex differences in health burdens across the lifespan in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii)

Elizabeth V Lonsdorf and others
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 381–398, https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoaf031

Exploring Evolutionary Medicine through Bibliometrics: Research Insights and Future Opportunities

Lukas Blumrich and others
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 399–410, https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoaf032

Book Reviews

Elizabeth M. Miller, Thicker than water: A social and evolutionary study of iron deficiency in women

Masako Fujita
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 45–46, https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoaf005

Paul W. Turke, Review of Bringing Up Baby: An Evolutionary View of Pediatrics

Bernard Crespi
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 47–48, https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoaf007

Clinical Brief

Alcohol use disorder

Kendall Walker and others
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 411–412, https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoaf034

Functional neurological disorder: an evolutionary perspective

Akihiro Nishi and Jon Stone
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 424–426, https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoaf036

Harnessing the extinction vortex against acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Peng Chen and others
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 427–429, https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoaf035

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The EvMedReview was started in 2008 with support from the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study to bring the world evolutionary medicine community together. It has succeeded. In 2013 Evolution Medicine and Public Health began publishing, in 2015 the International Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health had its first meeting, and its 11th annual meeting will be this July in Kiel, Germany. The ISEMPH Newsletter took over some of the information sharing functions from The EvMedReview, but ISEMPH gratis memberships will soon be discontinued because of high costs. Most of the same content will now be shared on the EvMedReview. However, paying ISEMPH members continue to get many benefits including early access to registration, meeting discounts, voting rights, participation in committees, and access to the EvMedEd resources and the searchable database of people with similar interests across the world…to say nothing of the satisfaction of contributing to the growth of a new field that is improving human health. Fees are substantially reduced for members in countries where resources are scarce.

With all this in mind, here are some timely news items.

• ISEMPH membership fees are 20% off this month if you use the code “EB2026” at checkout. Membership usually pays for itself if you come to a meeting, so join before you register.

• Registration and abstract submission are now open for ISEMPH 2026 in Kiel, Germany, July 24-28.

• Four keynote speakers have been announced

  • Trevor Graham – Institute of Cancer Research London, UK

  • Lynette Leidy Sievert – UMass Amherst, USA

  • Brendan Bohannan – Univ. of Oregon, USA

  • Marisa Azad – Univ. of Ottawa, Canada

• Limited travel awards are available to selected students who submit abstracts in time.

• Club EvMed, organized by ISEMPH President Charles Nunn and TriCEM, is your source for high level lively discussions about current articles and topics. Join us January 13 at noon ET for a zoom discussion about “The Drunken Monkey,” with Robert Dudley.

• Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health Editor in Chief, Vaughn Cooper, welcomes inquiries about potential submissions. All articles published in 2025 will be listed in a subsequent EvMedEd Post.

• EvMedEd Editor, Randy Nesse, welcomes your comments and suggestions. His Substack blog is at Nessays.com.

• And, ISEMPH’s wonderful Manager, Nicole Bender, can be reached at Manager@evmed.org.

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The evolution of imperfection: why do humans have so many medical problems? A Dec 2 ClubEvMed Noon ET on Laurence Hurst’s new book. Click here to register for this December 2nd presentation. Put the term “evolution” into google image search and most that comes back is a version of the “March of Progress”, an inference of which is […]

Abstract by Robert S. Rogers and Vamsi K. Mootha Science Translational Medicine

22 Jan 2025, Vol 17, Issue 782

DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.adr4049