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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 pm to sign copies of his new book "Your Inner Fish".





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