Schedule of Events

8:00 - 9:30 AM

Registration
Location: Lobby, Stamp Student Union

Sponsored by Maryland Biotechnology Center

9:30 AM - 12:00 N

Organisms and Climate Change
Location: Colony Ballroom, Stamp Student Union
Introductions by Norma Allewell, Dean, College of Chemical & Life Sciences

Karen Lips, Associate Professor, Biology, University of Maryland
"We Coulda Just Stayed Home: How Research on Panamanian
Frogs Led Us to Study Salamanders in Our Own Backyard"

Mark Lewis, Professor, University of Alberta
"Plagued by numbers: Mathematics of emerging wildlife diseases and their interactions with human activities"

Donald Milton, Director, Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health, University of Maryland School of Public Health
"Influenza Transmission: the Role of Aerosols and Climate"

Eric Post, Associate Professor of Biology, Pennsylvania State University
"The Vanishing Arctic"

Lunch is sponsored by VWR International, LLC

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Mini-symposium
Location: Colony Ballroom

Climate Change and Infectious Disease
Organizer: Najib El-Sayed, Associate Professor, Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland

Rita Colwell, Chairman, Canon US Life Sciences, Inc.
Distinguished Professor, University of Maryland
"From Genomes to Satellites: Biocomplexity of Climate and Infectious Disease"

Paul R. Epstein, Associate Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School
"Climate Instability: Health Problems and Healthy Solutions"

Ecological Impacts of Climate Change
Organizer: Karen Lips, Associate Professor, Biology, University of Maryland

Matthias Ruth, Roy F. Weston Chair in Natural Economics, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland
"The Challenges of Adapting to a Changing Climate in an Urbanized World"

Mike Sears, Assistant Professor, Bryn Mawr College
"The Promise and Perils of Modeling Species Ranges"

Anthony C. Janetos,  Director, Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Maryland
"Ecological Impacts of Climate and Land Use Change"

Panel discussion with the presenters moderated by Antonio Busalacchi, Director, Earth Systems Science Interdisciplinary Center and Professor, Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Science.

"Climate Change and Nature"