February 7, 2009
Morning Session - Ebling Auditorium - Microbial Sciences Building
9:00
Sean Carroll - UW-Madison Laboratory of Genetics
Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species
10:00
Patricia McConnell - UW Madison Department of Zoology
Darwin, Dogs, and the Emotional Life of Animals
11:00
Jeremy Jackson -Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Evolution and Extinction in the Brave New Ocean
Afternoon Session - Microbial Sciences Building - UW Madison
12:00-1:00
Book signing by Sean Carroll and Patricia McConnell
12:30-1:30
Teacher Workshop - seats are limited - call 262-1412 to register
Paul Williams - Department of Plant Pathology
Fast Plants: Getting a Handle on Variation
1:00-3:00
Short presentations by UW Madison researchers
- Audrey Gasch - Laboratory of Genetics
The Power of Yeast: Using Model Organisms to Study Environmental Interactions and Evolution
- Shanan Peters - Department of Geology and Geophysics
On the (Im)perfection of the Geologic Record
- John Hawks - Department of Anthropology
Genetics of Hearing and the Evolution of Language
- Nicole Perna - Laboratory of Genetics
Would You Eat This? Genomic Perspectives on Variation Among E. coli Strains
- Tony Goldberg - School of Veterinary Medicine
West Nile Virus: "Real Time" Evolution With "Real World" Consequences
- Stanley Temple - Department of Wildlife Ecology
Consequences of Bottlenecks for Evolution and Conservation
1:00-4:00
Interactive exploration stations
3:15-4:30
Panel Discussion - Science and the Media
- James Crow - Laboratory of Genetics
- Jeremy Jackson - Scripps Institution of Oceanography
- Molly Jahn - College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
- Steve Paulson - Wisconsin Public Radio