The Natural Sciences Planning Committee - proudly presents the

Darwin Symposium

sponsored by the HHMI, Blakeslee Fund, Office of the President

and the Smith College Lecture Committee

October 2nd & 3rd, 2009
Friday & Saturday

Friday – October 2, 2009  
3:00 -4:00 pm Dr. Scott Edwards, Harvard University
 

"Beyond Darwin's Dreams: Genomics of

Host-Parasite Interactions"
 

Lecture to be held in Stoddard Hall

 

4:15 -5:15 pm Dr. Rob Knight, University of Colorado - Boulder
  "Evolution of the Human Microbiome"
 

Lecture to be held in Stoddard Hall

 

5:30 -7:00 pm

Wine & Cheese Reception at Ford Hall -

All Welcome

Id will be required.
   
   
Saturday – October 3, 2009  
   
9:00 -10:00 am Dr. Laura Katz, Smith College
 

“The Tangled Branches of the Darwinian Tree of Life”
 

Lecture to be held in Stoddard Hall

 

10:00 -10:30 am Coffee Break - Stoddard Hall
 

 
10:30 -11:30 am

Dr. Elizabeth Kellogg,

University of Missouri– St. Louis
  "Pigeons and Noodles and Domestication"
 

Lecture to be held in Stoddard Hall

 

11:30 – 1:00 pm Lunch at the College Club & Poster Sessions
   
1:10– 2:45 pm

Short Talks to be held in McConnell Hall

as follows:
  1:10 -1:30pm McC 103

Bronwyn H. Bleakley (Chair) - Smith College- Biological Sciences Department

Application of an interacting phenotype model of cannibalism in an endangered isopod
  1:10 -1:30pm B 05

Meaghan Hall (Chair) & Laura Katz - Smith College Biological Sciences Department

On the nature of species: insights from ciliates
  1:10 -1:30pm B 15

Laura Wegener Parfrey (Chair) & Laura Katz - Smith College - Biological Sciences Department

Nuclear dynamics during the life cycle are influenced by food source in Allogromia laticollaris strain CSH (Foraminifera)

 
  1:35 -1:55pm McC 103

David Lahti (Queens College), Norman Johnson (UMASS  Amherst)*, and members of the Relaxed Selection and Trait Loss NESCENT working group.

Relaxed selection in the wild

 
  1:35 -1:55pm B 05

Mark A. Farmer & Andrea Habura - Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health and Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Public Health, The University at Albany

Using Protistan Examples to Dispel the Myths of Intelligent Design
  1:35 -1:55pm B 15

Zhiyi Sun, OEB  program at UMASS

Evolutionary Forces Driving Genome Reduction in Prochlorococcus

 
  2:00-2:20pm McC 103

L. David Smith - Smith College -

Biological Sciences Department

The role of phenotypic plasticity in a marine biological invasion: taking cues from the environment
  2:00-2:20pm B 05

Mark Aldrich- Smith College-

Department of Economics

From Darwin to Dayton: Cartoonists Interpret Evolution, 1860-1925.
  2:00-2:20pm B 15

A.M. Kovner & L.A. Katz, Smith College-

Biological Sciences Department

Multiple origins of scrambled coding domains within rapidly evolving germline sequences in ciliates.


  2:25-2:45pm McC 103

Jesse Bellemare - Smith College -

Biological Sciences Department

Proximate Environmental Correlates and Ultimate Evolutionary Sources of Species Richness Gradients in Temperate Deciduous Forests

 
  2:25-2:45pm B 05

Michele L. Aldrich & Alan E. Leviton
Darwin and the Gardener’s Chronicle, 1841-1877

 
  2:25-2:45pm B 15

Amy T. Toulson Wimmer & Robert Merritt*

Genetic Structure in the Mohave Desert endemic Yucca brevifolia

   

 
3:00 – 4:00 pm Dr. Warren Allmon, Cornell University
 

“Darwin as Paleontologist”

Lecture to be held in Stoddard Hall

   

See link for PDF of

program handout ~

Darwin Symposium Program Hand-out (PDF)
   
 

Brought to you by the Darwin Symposium Committee     Robert Merritt - Bronwyn H. Bleakley and Gina Morrone

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