Date/Time
Wed, February 8, 2012 until Sat, February 11, 201210:00 AM
Location
University of Wisconsin-Madison Wiscosin Institutes of Discovery
UUniversity Ave and Randall
Madison, Wisconsin
Details:
For details: http://www.evolution.wisc.edu
Wednesday, February 8: Teachers Workshop (registration required)
Thursday, February 9: Movie shorts on evolution (Union South Theatre)
Friday, February 10: Reception, 6:30 pm (Wisconsin Institutes of Discovery)
7:00 pm Plenary lecture: Janey Voight, Associate Curator for Zoology at the Field Museum in Chicago.
“Deep-sea octopuses, their origins and lives”
Saturday, February 11:
10:30 am Edmund Brodie, Professor of Biology at the University of Virginia
“The witches’ brew of predator-prey arms races: eye of newt,fenny snakes and resistance to a deadly poison.”
12:30 pm Dr. Charles Davis, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University
“The big, the bad, and the ugly: parasitism and the origin of the worldʼs largest flowers”
10:00-2:00 pm In addition to the exciting public lectures, families and children are encouraged to participate in the Tree Of Life activities that will be available in the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery building.
These interactive activities allow participants to actively explore some of the incredible diversity of life on earth, and learn how that diversity came to be.
