NESCent 2008 Darwin Day Symposium
“Origins and Evolution of Early Life”
February 8, 2008
8:30 am – 6 pm
Sigma Xi Headquarters
3106 East NC Highway 54
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
Directions: http://www.sigmaxi.org/about/center/directions.shtml
This symposium is open to the public and there is no registration fee,
however attendance is limited to the first 200 registrants. To register, and
for additional materials on the topic, including background reading, speaker
biographies and educational resources, go to
http://www.nescent.org/news/DarwinDay2008.php
NESCent will also be hosting a much smaller workshop on the topic
on Saturday morning. To receive more information on that, contact
info@nescent.org.
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SPEAKERS
The evolution of microbial life on Earth: tree or forest?
Carol Cleland
Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado
Creating Life in the Laboratory
Mark Bedau
Professor of Philosophy and Humanities, Reed College
Adjunct Professor of Systems Science, Portland State and European Center for
Living Technology
Topic: The evolution of life, metabolism and the early atmosphere
Janet Siefert
Faculty Fellow, Rice University
Topic: Identifying the first life in the fossil record
Abigail Allwood
NASA Post-doctoral Fellow, Jet Propulsion Lab
Topic: Deep phylogeny and the origins of eukaryotes
Andrew Roger
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie
University and Fellow, CIAR Program in Evolutionary Biology
Topic: the evolution of the genetic code
Laura Landweber
Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton
University
