What would you tell Darwin?

June 28th, 2009

The two-day symposium is presented by the Society for Experimental Biology in collaboration with the Biochemical Society, British Ecological Society and UK Higher Education Academy Centre for Bioscience, and held at the Annual SEB Meeting in Glasgow, UK.

The speakers at this symposium, organized by Jeremy Pritchard (Birmingham, UK),  present a review of their research fields of interest to animal, plant and cell biologists and to university teachers looking for accessible research-led teaching materials.

Angela's presentation concerns how Symbiotic Microorganisms Have Changed the Course of Evolutionary History.

The list of speakers and topics at the symposium:
Peter Grant (Princeton) Darwin's Finches
Georgina Mace (Imperial) Evolution and Conservation
Angela Douglas (Cornell) Symbiosis
Walter Gehring (Basel) Evolution of the Eye
John Raven (Dundee) Evolution of Plants
Stu West (Edinburgh) Bacteria and Multicellularity
Jennifer Clack (Cambridge) Early Vertebrate Evolution
Michael Sternberg (Imperial) Molecular Protein Structure
Mark Macnair (University of Exeter) Plant Adaptation to Heavy Metals

 

More information is available at the SEB website