<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello Everyone, <div>There is a 1 day conference this Friday at UCSD that includes many many famous evolutionary biologists (Peter Grant, James Crow, Allen Orr, Brian Charlesworth...)</div><div><br></div><div>If you are interested and you want to carpool please let me know</div><div><br></div><div>don't forget to register</div><div><br></div><div>I copied to information below.</div><div><br></div><div>Mart</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div 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; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">~Evolutionary biology...is the nexus of all other biological sciences.~</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></span>-- Richard C. Lewontin (1983) --</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Martin Turcotte, B.Sc.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Ph.D. Candidate in Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Dept. of Biology</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1208 Spieth Hall</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">University of California</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Riverside, CA 92521</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Office Phone#: 827-6160</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:martin.turcotte@email.ucr.edu">martin.turcotte@email.ucr.edu</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://student.ucr.edu/~mturc001/index.html">http://student.ucr.edu/~mturc001/index.html</a></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span></div></span> </div><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"><div class="Section1"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><font size="5" color="#1f497d" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-weight: bold; ">Registration Now Open!<br> <br>The 2009 Division of Biological Sciences Dean’s Symposium<br>Evolutionary Biology: From Molecules to Man<br><br></span></font></b><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; ">The Dean's Symposium, hosted by the Division of Biological Sciences at the University of California, San Diego, will bring together 14 of the world's most renowned scientists in the field of evolutionary biology. The topic of evolution will be highlighted as it coincides with the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his seminal work, "On the Origin of Species."<br></span></font><b><font size="5" color="#1f497d"><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-weight: bold; "><br></span></font></b><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">Friday, April 3, 2009<br>8:00am - 5:00pm<br>UCSD, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Price</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Center</st1:placetype></st1:place> West Ballroom<br></span></font><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; "><br></span></font><b><font size="5" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-weight: bold; "><br></span></font></b><b><font size="4" color="#1e487c" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(30, 72, 124); font-weight: bold; ">Keynote Address: James F. Crow<br></span></font></b><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; ">The 2009 Life Sciences Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to Dr. James F. Crow, who, like previous recipients - Sir Francis Crick, Sydney Brenner, and Stephen Harrison - has made rigorous and innovative contributions to almost every area of evolutionary biology and population genetics over a career that has lasted more than 50 years. The Life Sciences Lifetime Achievement Award is presented by UC San Diego and Merck & Co. <br></span></font><b><font size="4" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri; font-weight: bold; "><br></span></font></b><b><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-weight: bold; "><br></span></font></b><b><font size="4" color="#1e487c"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(30, 72, 124); font-weight: bold; ">Distinguished Speakers<br></span></font></b><b><font size="4" color="#1f497d"><span style="font-size: 13pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-weight: bold; "><br></span></font><font color="#1f497d"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Evolutionary Changes<br></span></font></b><font size="2" face="Symbol"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; ">· </span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; "> </span></font><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; ">H. Allen Orr: <i><span style="font-style: italic; ">The Genetics of Speciation<br></span></i></span></font><font size="2" face="Symbol"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; ">· </span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; "> </span></font><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; ">Peter Grant: <i><span style="font-style: italic; ">Adaptive Radiation and Speciation<br></span></i></span></font><font size="2" face="Symbol"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; ">· </span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; "> </span></font><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; ">Richard Lenski: <i><span style="font-style: italic; ">Evolution in Action: A 20 - Year Experiment with E.Coli<br></span></i></span></font><font size="2" face="Symbol"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; ">· </span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; "> </span></font><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; "> <br></span></font><b><font color="#1f497d"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-weight: bold; ">Evolutionary Interactions <br></span></font></b><font size="2" face="Symbol"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; ">· </span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; "> </span></font><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; ">Naomi Pierce: <i><span style="font-style: italic; ">Nabokov Meets <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Darwin</st1:place></st1:city>: Origin and Evolution of Blue Butterflies<br></span></i></span></font><font size="2" face="Symbol"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; ">· </span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; "> </span></font><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; ">Joy Bergelson: <i><span style="font-style: italic; ">Disentangling the Coevolution of a Plant Pathogen System<br></span></i></span></font><font size="2" face="Symbol"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; ">· </span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; "> </span></font><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; ">Nancy Moran: <i><span style="font-style: italic; ">Microbial Symbiosis and Evolution <br></span></i></span></font><font size="2" face="Symbol"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; ">· </span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; "> </span></font><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; "> <br></span></font><b><font color="#1f497d"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-weight: bold; ">Evolution of Development & Complexity <br></span></font></b><font size="2" face="Symbol"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; ">· </span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; "> </span></font><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; ">Peter Holland: <i><span style="font-style: italic; ">The Origin of Vertebrates: A Tale of Genes and Genomes<br></span></i></span></font><font size="2" face="Symbol"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; ">· </span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; "> </span></font><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; ">John Gerhart: <i><span style="font-style: italic; ">Hemichordates and the Origin of Chordates<br></span></i></span></font><font size="2" face="Symbol"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; ">· </span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; "> </span></font><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; ">Mike Lynch: <i><span style="font-style: italic; ">The Origins of Eukaryotic Gene Structure<br></span></i></span></font><font size="2" face="Symbol"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; ">· </span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; "> </span></font><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; "> <br></span></font><b><font color="#1f497d"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-weight: bold; ">Molecular Evolution <br></span></font></b><font size="2" face="Symbol"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; ">· </span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; "> </span></font><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; ">Brian Charlesworth: <i><span style="font-style: italic; ">Sex, Recombination and Molecular Evolution<br></span></i></span></font><font size="2" face="Symbol"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; ">· </span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; "> </span></font><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; ">Svante Paabo: <i><span style="font-style: italic; ">A Neandertal Perspective on Human Origins<br></span></i></span></font><font size="2" face="Symbol"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; ">· </span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; "> </span></font><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; ">Andrew Clark: <i><span style="font-style: italic; ">Molecular Evolution of the Drosophila Y Chromosome <br><br></span></i><br></span></font><font size="4" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri; ">For more information and to register, please visit: <br><a href="http://2009deansymposium.ucsd.edu/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://2009deansymposium.ucsd.edu/</a><br><br>View the flyer here: <br><a href="http://www.biology.ucsd.edu/emflyers/DeanSympPoster_04.03.09.pdf" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">www.biology.ucsd.edu/emflyers/DeanSympPoster_04.03.09.pdf</a><br></span></font><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; "><br></span></font></p></div></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></div></body></html>