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