<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><font face="Palatino" size="6" style="font: normal normal normal 23px/normal Palatino; "><b>MIT Darwin Bicentennial Symposium, Jan 22-24 2009</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#0000f0" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 240); "><a href="http://sites.google.com/site/darwinbicentennial/register"><u>Register here</u></a></font><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 19px/normal Palatino; ">.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 17px/normal Palatino; "><i>Free and open to the community.</i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 17px/normal Palatino; min-height: 23px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 20px/normal Palatino; "><b>Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009: The Evolving Earth</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 20px/normal Palatino; "><b>The Broad Auditorium</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 17px/normal Palatino; min-height: 23px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; ">Thursday afternoon:<b> </b>Chair: Prof. Maria Zuber (MIT EAPS)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; ">1:00 pm. </font><font face="Palatino" size="5" color="#0000c8" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; color: rgb(0, 0, 200); "><b><i>Introduction</i></b></font><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; "> <b>Prof. Maria Zuber</b> (MIT Earth, Atmosphere & Planetary Sciences)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; ">1:30 pm. </font><font face="Palatino" size="5" color="#0000c8" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; color: rgb(0, 0, 200); "><b><i>Origin of the Solar System and Early Earth</i></b></font><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; "> <b>Prof. Lindy Elkins-Tanton</b> (MIT EAPS)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; ">2:30 pm. </font><font face="Palatino" size="5" color="#0000c8" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; color: rgb(0, 0, 200); "><b><i>Evolution of the Oceans and the Early Atmosphere of the Earth</i></b></font><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; "> <b>Prof. Shuhei Ono</b> (MIT EAPS)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; ">3:30 pm. </font><font face="Palatino" size="5" color="#0000c8" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; color: rgb(0, 0, 200); "><b><i>Evolution of photosynthesis</i></b></font><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; "> <b>Prof. Tanja Bosak</b> (MIT EAPS)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; min-height: 24px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; "><u>Thursday Evening:</u></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; ">7:00 pm. </font><font face="Palatino" size="5" color="#0000ce" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; color: rgb(0, 0, 206); "><b><i>Introduction: Life Alters the Earth</i></b></font><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; "> <b>Prof. Dianne Newman</b> (MIT Dept. of Biology)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; ">7:30 pm. </font><font face="Palatino" size="5" color="#0000ce" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; color: rgb(0, 0, 206); "><b><i>History and Future of Earth’s Climate</i></b></font><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; "> <b>Prof. Kerry Emanuel</b> (MIT EAPS)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 17px/normal Palatino; min-height: 23px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 20px/normal Palatino; "><b>Friday, Jan. 23, 2009:</b> <b>Evolutionary Mechanisms Among Vertebrates</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 20px/normal Palatino; "><b>The Broad Auditorium</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 17px/normal Palatino; min-height: 23px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; "><u>Friday morning</u>:</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; ">9:00 am. Coffee, tea & muffins</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; ">9:30 am. </font><font face="Palatino" size="5" color="#0000ce" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; color: rgb(0, 0, 206); "><b><i>Darwin, Wallace and the Origin of Species</i></b></font><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; "> <b>Prof. John Durant</b> (MIT Museum and Science, Technology & Society Program)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; ">10:00 am. </font><font face="Palatino" size="5" color="#0000ce" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; color: rgb(0, 0, 206); "><b><i>Evolution and Development of the Vertebrate Brain</i></b></font><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; "> <b>Prof. Hazel Sive</b> (MIT Dept of Biology)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; ">10:45 am. </font><font face="Palatino" size="5" color="#0000ce" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; color: rgb(0, 0, 206); "><b><i>Novel Mechanisms of Evolutionary Change</i></b></font><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; "> <b>Prof. Susan Lindquist</b> (MIT/Whitehead Institute)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; ">11:30 am. </font><font face="Palatino" size="5" color="#0000ce" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; color: rgb(0, 0, 206); "><b><i>Evolution of the Vertebrate Eye</i></b></font><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; "> <b>Prof. Russell Fernald</b> (Stanford University Neuroscience Program)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; min-height: 24px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; "><u>Friday afternoon</u>:</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; ">2:00 pm. </font><font face="Palatino" size="5" color="#0000ce" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; color: rgb(0, 0, 206); "><b><i>Natural Selection in Humans and Pathogens</i></b></font><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; "> <b>Prof. Pardis Sabeti</b> (Broad Institute and Harvard University)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; ">3:00 pm. </font><font face="Palatino" size="5" color="#0000ce" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; color: rgb(0, 0, 206); "><b><i>Fish Fins to Tetrapod Limbs: The Landmark Evolutionary Transition in the Origin of Terrestrial Vertebrates</i></b></font><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; "> <b>Prof. Farish Jenkins, Jr.</b> (Harvard University, Dept. of Biology)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; ">4:00 pm.</font><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 17px/normal Palatino; "> </font><font face="Book Antiqua" size="5" color="#0000ce" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Book Antiqua'; color: rgb(0, 0, 206); "><b><i>New insights into the diversification of beak morphology in Darwin's Finches and regressive evolution in cave fish</i></b></font><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 17px/normal Palatino; "> </font><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; "><b>Prof. Cliff Tabin</b> (Harvard Medical School, Dept of Genetics)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 17px/normal Palatino; min-height: 23px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 20px/normal Palatino; "><b>Saturday, Jan. 24, 2009: Darwin in Society</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 20px/normal Palatino; "><b>MIT Museum</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 17px/normal Palatino; min-height: 23px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; "><u>Saturday morning</u>:</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; ">9:00 am. Coffee, tea & muffins</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; min-height: 24px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; "><b>Darwin, His Life and Times</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; ">9:30 am. </font><font face="Palatino" size="5" color="#0000ce" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; color: rgb(0, 0, 206); "><b><i>The (Very Gradual) Emergence of Darwin’s Evolutionary Theory</i></b></font><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; "> <b>Prof. Harriet Ritvo</b> (MIT History Faculty)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; ">10:00 am. </font><font face="Palatino" size="5" color="#0000ce" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; color: rgb(0, 0, 206); "><b><i>Darwin and the Naturalization of Human Culture</i></b></font><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; "> <b>Prof. Jim Paradis</b> (MIT Program in Writing)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; min-height: 24px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; "><b>Evolution in Action</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; ">10:30 am. </font><font face="Palatino" size="5" color="#0000ce" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; color: rgb(0, 0, 206); "><b><i>The Evolution of Cell Division</i></b></font><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; "> <b>Prof. Iain Cheeseman</b> (MIT/Whitehead Institute)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; ">11:00 am. </font><font face="Palatino" size="5" color="#0000ce" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; color: rgb(0, 0, 206); "><b><i>The Battle Between Pathogens and the Immune System</i></b></font><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; "> <b>Prof. Hidde Ploegh</b> (MIT/Whitehead Institute)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; min-height: 24px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; "><b>Saturday afternoon</b>: <b>Societal impacts and issues</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; ">1:00 pm. </font><font face="Palatino" size="5" color="#0000ce" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; color: rgb(0, 0, 206); "><b><i>Local Resources for Biology Teachers</i></b></font><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; "> <b>Dr. Natalie Kuldell</b> (MIT Dept. of Bioengineering), <b>Prof. Rebeca Rosengaus</b> (Northeastern University Dept. of Biology), <b>Dr. Connie Chow</b> (The Science Club for Girls), <b>Loreen Meyer</b> (Mass. Association of Biology Teachers)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; ">2:00 pm. </font><font face="Palatino" size="5" color="#0000ce" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; color: rgb(0, 0, 206); "><b><i>Darwin, Abolition and Struggles for Human Equality</i></b></font><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; "> <b>Prof. Jonathan King</b> (MIT Dept. of Biology)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; ">2:30 pm. </font><font face="Palatino" size="5" color="#0000ce" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; color: rgb(0, 0, 206); "><b><i>Current Controversies over the Teaching of Evolution</i></b></font><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Palatino; "> <b>Prof. John Durant</b> (MIT Museum and Science, Technology & Society Program)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 17px/normal Palatino; min-height: 23px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 17px/normal Palatino; "><b>Sponsors:</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 17px/normal Palatino; ">MIT Dept. of Biology; MIT Museum; MIT School of Humanities; MIT School of Science; Cambridge Forum on Science Education; Massachusetts Darwin Bicentennial Project; New England Biolabs; Whitehead Institute; Broad Institute.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 17px/normal Palatino; min-height: 23px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Palatino" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 17px/normal Palatino; ">For more information go to <font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#0000f3" style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 243); "><u><a href="http://www.darwinbicentennial.org/">http://www.darwinbicentennial.org</a></u></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000F3" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; text-decoration: underline;"><br></span></font></div></body></html>