
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".