9:00 - 10:00am -- Neil Shubin, Keynote -- University of Chicago -- Fossils, genes, and the origin of limbs
10:00 - 10:30am -- Break
10:30 - 11:10am -- Peter Andolfatto -- Princeton University -- Constraints on adaptation revealed by the convergent evolution of toxin insensitivity
11:10 - 11:50am -- Richard Durbin -- Cambridge, UK -- Hybridisation, speciation and diversity in Lake Malawi cichlid fish
11:50am - 12:30pm -- Kristen Bomblies -- John Innes Centre, UK -- The evolution of meiosis proteins and recombination rates in Arabidopsis
12:30 - 1:30pm -- Lunch
1:30 - 2:10pm -- Andrés Bedensky -- Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute -- The genetic and neuronal bases of parental behavior evolution in monogamous mice
2:10 - 2:50pm -- Nancy Moran -- University of Texas, Austin -- Cooperation and conflict in a coevolved community of gut bacteria
2:50 - 3:30pm -- Michael Eisen -- University of California, Berkeley -- A mind controlling fungal pathogen of Drosophila melanogaster
3:30 - 4:00pm -- Break
4:00 - 4:40pm -- David Reich -- Harvard University -- Who we are and how we got here: ancient DNA and the new science of the human past
4:40 - 5:00pm -- Closing Remarks
5:00 - 6:00pm -- Reception
This symposium will be held in the 9th floor lecture hall of the Jerome L. Greene Science Center.
Please reserve a free ticket, which will count as your registration. Closing date for registration is March 26, 2018.
Supported by the Precision Medicine Initiative, Arts and Sciences and the Dept. of Biological Sciences.