Neil Shubin will be a guest on Wisconsin Public Radio on the Larry Meiller's on Feb. 5th at 11am ... to listen online, click here.
Morning Session: 9am-noon
Microbial Sciences Building, Ebling Symposium Center
9:00
Reshaping the Tree of Life: Human impacts on the future of evolution
- Don Waller
Botany Dept., University of Wisconsin - Madison
10:00
A Challenge for the Century---Given a Genome, Predict the Organism
- John Yin
Chemical & Biological Engineering Dept.,
University of Wisconsin - Madison
11:00
Discovering how Fish Evolved to Walk: The Story of Tiktaalik"
- Neil Shubin
University of Chicago, Organismal and Evolutionary Biology
Morning session will feature a life-size
inflated Basilosaurus for you to explore the wonder of whale evolution! *
Afternoon Session: 1pm-4pm
Weeks Hall First Floor & Geology Museum
Interactive displays
that explore the importance and excitement of evolution, ranging from early bacterial evolution to human evolution.
Presenters include faculty, staff, and graduate students from many departments across campus.
Neil Shubin will be available from 1-2 to sign copies of his new book "Your Inner Fish".
Free and Open to the Public!
All events are free and open to the public. Parking is available (262.8683). The Microbial Sciences Building (morning session) is located on the NE corner of Babcock Drive and Linden Drive. The Geology Museum in Weeks Hall (afternoon session) is located on the SW corner of West Dayton and Charter Streets. For more information, please contact:
Dana Geary by email or 263.7754
Mara McDonald by email or 263.8941
Brooke Norsted by email or 262.1412
Darwin Day at UW-Whitewater!
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Darwin Day at UW-Milwaukee!
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