Conference Notice: The Developmental Basis of Evolutionary Change
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The Developmental Basis of Evolutionary Change
To Whom It May Concern:
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First Announcement and Call for Abstracts:
We announce the fourth biennial conference on the Developmental Basis of Evolutionary Change at the University of Chicago during 20-23 October 2005. This four-day, graduate student-organized conference has a tradition of assembling, at the intersection of evolution and development, a fellowship of faculty and student conferees of diverse intellectual interests. As such, it has been a fertile occasion for initiating unexpected collaborations and probing new ideas.
The conference will open with keynote addresses by Peter Holland of the University of Oxford and Naomi Pierce of Harvard University. The themes of the four plenary sessions are Sensation and Sensory Networks; History and Philosophy of Evolutionary and Developmental Thought; Ecology, Development and Evolution; and Genetic Regulation, Evolution and Development. The confirmed speakers for each plenary session can be found at the end of this announcement.
In addition, poster sessions and concurrent sessions-comprising shorter, submitted talks from faculty, post-docs, and students-will be held on a variety of topics within developmental and evolutionary biology.
The meeting is designed as a special opportunity for more junior members of the scientific community to interact with more established members in an intimate environment and to encourage scientific exchange; including not only the poster and concurrent sessions, but also dinners and receptions during the course of the meeting.
For more information about the conference, including registration and abstract submission, please visit the conference website, http://dbec.uchicago.edu . As conference attendance is limited, we encourage you to secure a spot soon.
If you have any questions, please, contact the conference organizers, Todd Martin and Alex Wolf, at dbec@pondside.uchicago.edu .
The confirmed speakers are:
Keynote Addresses
Peter Holland, University of Oxford
Naomi Pierce, Harvard University
Sensation and Sensory Networks
John Carlson, Yale University
Bernd Fritzsch, Creighton University
Walter Gehring, Universiät Basel
William Jeffery, University of Maryland
Steve Kay, The Scripps Research Institute
Dan-E Nilsson, Lunds Universitet
Richard Vogt, University of South Carolina
History and Philosophy of Evol. And Developmental Thought
James Griesemer, University of California, Davis
Jonathan Kaplan, Oregon State University
Gerd Müller, Universität Wien
Lynn Nyhart, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Robert Richards, University of Chicago
Michael Richardson, Universiteit Leiden
William Wimsatt, University of Chicago
Ecology, Development and Evolution
Jessica Bolker, University of New Hampshire
Josh van Buskirk, The University of Melbourne
Tom Juenger, The University of Texas at Austin
Margaret McFall-Ngai, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Douglas Schemske, Michigan State University
Paul Turner, Yale University
Genetic Regulation, Evolution and Development
Sean Carroll, University of Wisconsin-Madison
William Cresko, University of Oregon
Veronica Hinman, California Institute of Technology
Frederik Nijhout, Duke University
Patricia Simpson, University of Cambridge
Kevin White, Yale University
Gregory Wray, Duke University
