"Darwin at 200 - Evolution & 21st Century Science"

Agenda, November 12, 2008

8:00 - 9:30 AM

Registration
Location: Lobby, Stamp Student Union
(Online preregistration for Bioscience Day will begin in September.)

8:00 - 9:30 AM Continental Breakfast
Location: Grand Ballroom, Stamp Student Union
9:30 AM - 12:00 N

The "Future" of Evolution
Location: Colony Ballroom, Stamp Student Union
(listed in speaker order)

"The Shape of Life: How New Body Forms Evolve"
Rudolf A. Raff, Distinguished Professor & Director, Indiana Molecular Biology Institute, Indiana University

"On the Origin of Species"
Thomas Kocher, Professor, Dept of Biology, University of Maryland

"Darwin's 'Abominable Mystery': the Origin and Early Evolution of Flowering Plants"
Pamela S. Soltis
, Curator, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida

"Evolution and Human Affairs"
David Sloan Wilson
, Professor, Departments of Biology and Anthropology, Binghamton University

10:30 AM- 2:30 PM

Internship & Career Fair
(Special registration required)
Location: Bioscience Research Building room 1103

12:00 N - 2:00 PM

Poster Session & Lunch - Meet the researchers
Location: Grand Ballroom, Stamp Student Union

12:00 N - 4:30 PM

Secondary School Teachers Symposium
(Special registration required)
Location: John Carroll Room, Stamp Student Union

12:30 - 2:00 PM
Innovation Corner - "Professor Venture Fair"
Location: Grand Ballroom Lounge, Stamp Student Union
Professors and inventors will pitch their inventions to local Venture Capitalists who will then name the
"Best Inventor Pitch for Bioscience Day 2008."
1:00 - 2:30 PM Colony Collapse Disorder in Honeybees discussion
Location: Margaret Brent Room, Stamp Student Union
1:00 - 4:00 PM

Evolution - New Perspectives from the Physical Sciences
Location: Banneker Room, Stamp Student Union

"Darwin and Evolutionary Dynamics: 150 Years after the Origin of Species"
Peter K. Schuster, Professor, Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria

"Using Evolution as a Guide for the Design of Biosynthetic Pathways"
Claudia Schmidt-Dannert, Associate Professor, Dept of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Minnesota

"Innovation in the History of Life"
Douglas H. Erwin, Curator of Paleozoic Invertebrates, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

2:30 - 3:30 PM

"Darwin" in the Afternoon
Robert Dennison, 31 years teaching Biology, currently at Lee High School in Houston, will portray Charles Darwin.
Refreshments will follow.

Location: Colony Ballroom, Stamp Student Union

5:00 - 6:30 PM

The Dr. Erik B. & Mrs. Joyce D.C. Young Lecture:
"Darwin and the Future of Biology"
by Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino University Research Professor, Emeritus, Harvard University
Location: Bioscience Research Building room 1101

More details will be posted in the future. Registration will begin in September.

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