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First Annual June 2002
CONFERENCE ON RECENT WORK IN BIOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY

The Relationship between Evolution and Development
Location: White Lecture Hall Building , East Campus, Duke University, Durham NC

PRINTABLE PDF VERSION HERE

  Friday June 14th Saturday June 15th Sunday June 16th
  9:15am-9:30am Coffee 9:45am-10am Coffee
 

9:30am-11am Session 2

9:30am Selection Against Spurious Transcription Factor Binding Sites Shapes Genomes Matthew W. Hahn, Jason E. Stajich, and Gregory A. Wray Figures (PDF)use 'Save As' command

10am Sex Chromosome Evolution in Silene latifolia Richard Moore, Sabine Hardenack, Olga Kozyreva, Jiri Siroky,
Roman Hobza, Boris Vyskot, and Sarah Grant

10:30 am Beyond the Embryo: Examining Evolution and development at Superorganismic Levels Andrew Yang Abstract

10am-11am Session 4

10am Origins and the Evo-Devo Problem in Ecological Context Marion Blute

10:30am How Evolutionary is Evolutionary Developmental Biology?
Jason Scott Robert

  11:00am-11:30am break 11:00am-11:30am break
  11:30am-1:00pm Günter Wagner "Methodological Challenges of Developmental Evolution" 11:30am-1:00pm Paul Griffiths "Evo-Devo Meets the Mind: Towards a developmental evolutionary psychology"
  1:45pm Welcome

1:00pm-3:00pm Lunch (on your own)

1:00pm End
2pm-3:30pm Brian Hall: "Cells and Epigenetics: Central Tenets of Evo-Devo"

3pm-4pm Session 3

3pm Quantitative Developmental Genetics of Wing Shape
Arnar Palsson, Ann Klatt, Rebecca Riley and Greg Gibson


3:30pm The Development of Crossveins in Insect Wings and the Evolution of
Modes of Insect Flight
Jeff Marcus Related Material (PDF)

  3:30pm-4:00pm break 4:00pm-4:30pm Break
 

4:00pm-5:00pm Session 1

4:00pm Evolvability, Dispositions, and Intrinsicality Alan C. Love

4:30pm Aspects of Genetic Explanation Marko Barendregt CANCELLED

4:30pm-6:00pm Kenneth Schaffner "Neurodevelopmental Complexities in Worms and Flies: Strategies for Representation and Explanation "
  5:00pm-6:30pm Reception, Philosophy Dept. 6:00pm Party at Alex Rosenberg's house
  Dinner (on your own)

 

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