Modern science is dominated by the need to understand mechanistic processes occurring in the human body in order to better describe diseases and ultimately provide appropriate care to patients or prevent and manage disease exposure. Diseases affect individual organisms, but the mechanisms that determine their advent are the product of long evolutionary processes that transcend both individuals and species. As a grand unifying theory of life, evolution offers insights into understanding the human body and its disease-related molecules and processes that are becoming increasingly useful in biomedical research, proved by the recent rise of Darwinian medicine.
In collaboration with Dr. David Fournier, I aim at transmitting knowledge in ecology and evolution to biomedical students and researchers by explaining how and why the integration of these frameworks into biomedical research is necessary to fulfill current societal needs.
- In April 2011, I co-organized the Evolution Workshop under patronage of Prof. Detlev Ganten. In collaboration with the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine I introduced the basics of evolutionary biology to biomedical scientists and illustrated how such concepts can be applied to the management of human health. The event initiated a special issue of Journal of Molecular Medicine.
- I am also involved in a course on the use of mathematical models to study biological systems from molecules to ecosystems. In particular, I taught with David Fournier how to use game theory to model animal behaviour (from and evolutionary point of view). The course aws aimed for M.Sc. students in biomedicine at the University of Mainz, Germany and ran in 2017 and 2018.
In collaboration with Dr. David Fournier, I aim at transmitting knowledge in ecology and evolution to biomedical students and researchers by explaining how and why the integration of these frameworks into biomedical research is necessary to fulfill current societal needs.
- In April 2011, I co-organized the Evolution Workshop under patronage of Prof. Detlev Ganten. In collaboration with the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine I introduced the basics of evolutionary biology to biomedical scientists and illustrated how such concepts can be applied to the management of human health. The event initiated a special issue of Journal of Molecular Medicine.
- I am also involved in a course on the use of mathematical models to study biological systems from molecules to ecosystems. In particular, I taught with David Fournier how to use game theory to model animal behaviour (from and evolutionary point of view). The course aws aimed for M.Sc. students in biomedicine at the University of Mainz, Germany and ran in 2017 and 2018.
