Ines's expert point of view about the ENCODE project -London Science Museum

I am very privileged to have been chosen as a science expert for the London Science Museum. My first contribution relates to the exhbition about the ENCODE project. The ENCODE project papers have been published in Nature. The results of the project show that 80% of our DNA is made up of genetic switches and what we used to think as "junk DNA" is actually millions of switches. Only 2% of the genome is actually genes, thus we are all much more flexible, in terms of gene expression and epigenetics, than previously thought

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Post docs in health policy

C3 (@C3health) 03/09/2012 21:45 Postdoctoral #research #fellowships in #Health #Policy and Systems Research Public Health Winter School ow.ly/dqisw #HPSR

Ancient Mayans Consumed and Sacrificed Domesticated Turkeys

Check out this link for more details and the full paper
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Refutation of biological "race"

Jason Antrosio (@JasonAntrosio) 05/08/2012 00:13 Thanks! "@DrDawg: One of the best refutations of biological "race" that I have had the good fortune to read: livinganthropologically.com/anthropology/r…

Ancient tomb found in Mexico holds Mayan prince, priceless artifacts

HuffPost Science (@HuffPostScience) 31/07/2012 22:40 Ancient tomb found in Mexico holds Mayan prince, priceless artifacts huff.to/Pl7Ewf

University webpage update

Just got my University webpage updated...Neat! http://ow.ly/catIf

I am a Mendeley advisor

Mendeley is really a great reference-management tool. I have just become a Mendeley Advisor. See my profile here and join http://ow.ly/c9aL8

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Research group on Nutritional Dual-Burden (on Mendeley)

I have just created a Research Group on Mendeley, focusing on the "Nutritional Dual-Burden". Please check it out and join the group if you are working on this topic. This is not a professional networking group like many others in which people start discussions and "network away". With this group we compile research literature and are able to create really neat bibliographic listings of all sorts. It's worth a look!
http://www.mendeley.com/groups/2378141/nutritional-dual-burden/

From The New Yorker...Letter from Mexico

I thought you would want to read Letter from Mexico: The Kingpins, by William Finnegan. 

The fight for Guadalajara. http://nyr.kr/KS9vx4




Early postcards of ·Mexico

Think Mexican (@ThinkMexican) 24/06/2012 05:27 "Novios Mexicanos" ow.ly/bMEO5 Early postcards of Mexico

Racism in the Academy - Please pass the information

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Active Commissions and Task Forces   AAANET Home > AAA Committees > Active Commissions and Task Forces > Racism in the Academy: the new millennium  Print Page | Email Page     Racism in the Academy: the new millennium The starting point for this study was through the auspices of our professional scholarly society, the American Anthropological Association. In 2007, then-president Alan Goodman appointed a commission charged with two primary responsibilities: "(1) to collect information in order to better expose how privilege has been maintained in anthropology and the AAA, including but not limited to departments and the academic pipeline and "(2) to develop a comprehensive plan for the Association and for the field of anthropology to increase the ethnic, racial, gender and class diversity of the discipline and organization." Many of the responsibilities about investigating and mapping the field of anthropology and the role of the Association were discharged with the publication of the Commission's Final Report in 2010. However, we are anthropologists and we found ourselves wanting to bring the anthropological lens to another kind of project, an ethnography—the systematic description of human culture—of the academy, to more fully describe the lived experiences of racism in colleges and universities. Thus Audrey Smedley and Janis Faye Hutchinson, two members of the commission, found themselves organizing additional findings in a volume entitled, RACISM IN THE ACADEMY: The New Millennium. Introduction by Audrey Smedley and Janis Faye Hutchinson Racism in the Academy: Toward a Multi-Methodological Agenda for Anthropological Engagement by Faye V. Harrison Parallel Paradigms: Racial Diversity and Racism at Universities by Janis Faye Hutchinson A Black Woman's Ordeal in White Universities by Audrey Smedley I Will Make Allowances for Your Creativity by Maria Inez Winfield Dismantling Africana Studies at Rutgers University by Walton R. Johnson Black Woman in Charge: Role Displacement in a Midwest Majority Institutionby Sheilah F. Clarke-Ekong Racism in the Academy: Ideology, Practice, and Ambiguity by George Clement Bond Racism in Anthropology: Same Discipline, Different Decade by Rolonda Teal Sexism and Racism in Academe: Why the Struggle Must Continue by Cheryl Mwaria "He Fit the Description": Prejudice and Pain in Progressive Communities by J. Lorand Matory Negotiating Racism in the Academy by Arthur K. Spears Conclusions About the Authors

 

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My talk on Monday 21 May: Take good care of your past because it will determine your future - Nottingham Culture & Café Scientifique (Nottingham, England)

Nottingham Culture & Café Scientifique

 

Featured Meetup

Cafe Sci: Take good care of your past because it will determine your future

Monday, May 21, 2012 ' 8:00 PM

Selected By: Melanie Heeley

Lord Roberts pub

24 Broad Street
NG1 3AN
Nottingham (map)

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We are in the basement

Selected By: Melanie Heeley

Dr Ines Varela-Silva

Loughborough University

(School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences - Centre for Global Health and Human Development)

The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease hypothesis (DOHaD) points to the idea that the incidence of certain adult diseases (for example, type-2 diabetes, stroke, and heart disease) are linked to development before birth. The work of David Barker and colleagues at Southampton University in the 1980's and 1990's,for example, shows an association between low-birth-weight and cardiovascular disease in adulthood. A great deal of research also shows that intergenerational effects play a role in the health of the current generations. This means that the health of the mothers and grandmothers while they were growing-up, impacts the health of their children and grandchildren, even when environmental conditions change.

In this session I will present results from our research with the Maya in the Yucatan, Mexico and with Maya migrants to the USA in order to emphasise the importance of the prenatal months and the first years of postnatal life as fundamental factors to guarantee a healthy adulthood.

The message I wish to pass-on is that we should raise our children thinking of the health of our grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

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Martin Mosebury Smith

This is an extremely thought provoking and important hypothesis and would seem to explain patterns in families, along the lines of 'the sins of the fathers (and mothers) are visited on the children' metaphorically speaking of course.

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Methods in Anthropology - Interesting and useful stuff

AmerAnthroAssoc (@AmericanAnthro) 01/05/2012 17:03 May #AnthropologyNews Is Now Online and features a thematic series on methods in #anthropology wp.me/prUnT-2GL

Network for Indigenous Mexican Studies (NIMS)

Dear Colleagues

I am very pleased to announce that the Network for Indigenous Mexican Studies (NIMS) was launched yesterday, during the Annual Conference of the Society for Latin-American Studies (SLAS), in Sheffield.

 

The Network for Indigenous Mexican Studies is hosted by the University of Sheffield and aims to bring together academics from across the disciples with a shared interest in the indigenous cultures of Mexico. We hope to facilitate interdisciplinary research and promote a respect  and appreciation of these cultures, both ancient and modern. I am very proud to be one of the founding members of NIMS.

 

We welcome interested colleagues from all disciplines.

 

Please check our website (http://www.nims.group.shef.ac.uk/) and, if you tweet, than follow us @mexicanstudies.

 

I would appreciate very much if you forward this information to anybody you think may be interested.

 

Kind regards

Ines

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Dr. Maria Inês Varela-Silva, BSc, MSc, PhD, FHEA

Lecturer in Human Biology

DPS-Placements Coordinator for the Human Biology Programme

Centre for Global Health and Human Development

Loughborough University (SSEHS)

Brockington Extension, 2nd floor, Loughborough, LE11 3TU - UK

email: M.I.O.Varela-Silva@lboro.ac.uk

Phone: +44 (0)1509 228164

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Maria Ines Varela-Silva - Google Scholar Citations

Maria Ines Varela-Silva

Lecturer in Human Biology, Loughborough University

Human growth and development - nutrition transition - migrants - Maya - Mexico 

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[ ]	Rapid change in height and body proportions of Maya American children B Bogin, P Smith, AB Orden, MI Varela Silva, J Loucky American Journal of Human Biology 14 (6), 753-761	99		2002
[ ]	Life history trade‐offs in human growth: Adaptation or pathology? B Bogin, MIV Silva, L Rios American Journal of Human Biology 19 (5), 631-642	43		2007
[ ]	Economic and anthropological assessments of the health of children in Maya immigrant families in the US PK Smith, B Bogin, MI Varela-Silva, J Loucky Economics & Human Biology 1 (2), 145-160	43		2003
[ ]	Leg length, body proportion, and health: a review with a note on beauty B Bogin, MI Varela-Silva International journal of environmental research and public health 7 (3 ...	20		2010
[ ]	How genetic are human body proportions B Bogin, M Kapell, MI Varela Silva, AB Orden, PK Smith, J Loucky Perspectives in human growth, development and maturation. Dordrecht: Kluwer ...	19		2001
[ ]	Behavioral, environmental, metabolic and intergenerational components of early life undernutrition leading to later obesity in developing nations and in minority groups in the USA MI Varela-Silva, AR Frisancho, B Bogin, D Chatkoff, PK Smith, F Dickinson, D ... Collegium antropologicum 31 (1), 39	15		2007
[ ]	Influence of maternal stature, pregnancy age, and infant birth weight on growth during childhood in Yucatan, Mexico: a test of the intergenerational effects hypothesis MI Varela‐Silva, H Azcorra, F Dickinson, B Bogin, AR Frisancho American Journal of Human Biology 21 (5), 657-663	15		2009
[ ]	Does immigration help or harm children's health? The Mayan case PK Smith, B Bogin, MI Varela–Silva, B Orden, J Loucky Social Science Quarterly 83 (4), 994-1002	15		2002
[ ]	Fatness biases the use of estimated leg length as an epidemiological marker for adults in the NHANES III sample B Bogin, MI Varela-Silva International journal of epidemiology 37 (1), 201-209	14		2008
[ ]	Anthropometric variation and health: a biocultural model of human growth B Bogin, MI Varela-Silva Informa UK Ltd UK	9		2011
[ ]	Height and relative leg length as indicators of the quality of the environment among Mozambican juveniles and adolescents C Padez, MI Varela‐Silva, B Bogin American Journal of Human Biology 21 (2), 200-209	6		2009
[ ]	Growth as a measure of socioeconomic inequalities and poor living conditions among Portuguese, Cape Verdean-Portuguese, and Cape Verdean children, between 1993 and 2001 MI Varela-Silva, B Bogin Proceedings of the 1 st Lusophone Africa Conference: Intersections Between ...	5		2003
[ ]	Prospects for Welfare Alleviation in an Obesogenic Environment PK Smith, B Bogin, MI Varela-Silva, B Gossiaux Contemporary Poverty and Welfare Alleviation Issues. Hauppauge, NY: Nova ...	2		2006
[ ]	Growth and nutritional status of Portuguese children from Lisbon, and their parents. Notes on time trends between 1971 and 2001 MI Varela-Silva, I Fragoso, F Vieira Annals of Human Biology 37 (5), 702-716	2		2010
[ ]	How useful is BMI in predicting adiposity indicators in a sample of Maya children and women with high levels of stunting? HJ Wilson, F Dickinson, PL Griffiths, H Azcorra, B Bogin, M InÊS Varela‐Silva American Journal of Human Biology			2011
[ ]	Increasing the Kissing Rate in the USA MIV Silva Annals of Improbable Research 8 (3), 5-7			2002
[ ]	Logistics of using the Actiheart physical activity monitors in urban Mexico among 7‐to 9‐year‐old children H Wilson, F Dickinson, P Griffiths, B Bogin, MI Varela‐silva American Journal of Human Biology			2011
[ ]	Author/Session Index MP Aiello, JPM Allman, AP Arnaiz-Villena, IP Azam, KP Begum, TP Bekelman, RP ... AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN BIOLOGY 22 (278)			2010
[ ]	The Nutritional Dual-Burden in Developing Countries–How is it Assessed and What Are the Health Implications? MI Varela-Silva, F Dickinson, H Wilson, H Azcorra, PL Griffiths, B Bogin Coll. Antropol 36 (1), 39-45			2012
[ ]	Author/Session Index CP Amorim, PP Barrientos, LP Becker, KP Begum, RP Bender, MP Blell, EP ... American Journal of Human Biology 23 (285)			2011

 

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