On April 1, 2010 the Royal Netherlands Acedemy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) organizes a symposium on evolutionary biology.
The role of evolution in health and disease is a relatively neglected area of research. In daily practice of clinical medicine virtual no attention is paid to the notion that modern human disease often has an important evolutionary component. This symposium is meant to explore the effects of evolution on
human health, including longevity, and will attempt to bring together the available information from different disciplines.
Location: Trippenhuis, Amsterdam, admission is free. Programme, speakers and registration info: Read here

This three-day event is dedicated to career development: identifying your skills and talents, improving your transferable skills, orientation of career paths in Life Sciences, both within and outside academia and focussing on the future. The programme includes keynote lectures, training sessions, workshops and meet & greets with potential employers.
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Rudi G.J. Westendorp, professor of Internal Medicine and scientific director of the Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Ageing (NCHA) will deliver the Dies Lecture of the Leiden University on 8 February 2010 at 15:00 hrs in the Pieterskerk in Leiden. The title will be "Match of mismatch? The human life cycle in a rapidly changing environment". Read more in the right margin of this page.