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"Darwinathon"
2nd November 2009
Meacham Auditorium, 8:15am-9:15pm

Time	Presenter	Affiliation	Title
8:15	Broughton	Zoology/Biological Survey	*setting up*
8:30	Broughton	Zoology/Biological Survey	*Introduction to Darwinathon*
8:40	Hougen	Computer Science	*Darwinian Engineering*
9:00	Elisens	Botany/Microbiology	White flowers in a red lineage - hypotheses for the unique flower color in the Galapagos shrub snapdragon
9:15	R. Lewis	Zoology	*Sex or the lack thereof*
9:30	Patten	Biological Survey	Conflicting evolutionary history of a Song Sparrow ring in western North America
9:45	Dugas	Zoology	*Turbidity influences nuptial color expression in red shiners*
10:00	Klebba	Chemistry	*Competition and Selection in Bacterial Cell Envelopes*
10:15	Ketchum	Zoology	*This Talk Sucks: Evolution of Blood-Sucking in Insects*
10:30	Carnes	OU Health Sciences	*Lessons from Biology on the Nature of Aging*
10:45	Weider	OU Biological Station	Time travel – exploring microevolutionary changes using egg and seed banks
11:00	Gibson	Botany/Microbiology & Zoology	*Bet hedging in plant reproduction*
11:15	Vitt	Sam Noble Museum	*TBA*
11:30	Rice	Biological Sciences, Southeastern Oklahoma State University	*Darwin never knew how right he was*
11:45	Zhang	Zoology	*Of flies and humans: neurodegenerative diseases*
12:00	Swenson	Zoology/History of Science	*Sociobiology and Its Implications for the Future of Mankind*
12:15	Knapp	Zoology	*Many ways to be a male*
12:30	Langerhans	OU Biological Station	*Predation and competion in Bahamas blue holes*
12:45	Nollert	Engineering	*Engineering Complex Biological Systems*
1:00	Kaspari	Zoology	*Is metabolism an engine driving speciation?*
1:15	Hewes	Zoology	*Regulation of nerve cell growth by insulin*
1:30	Atkinson	Zoology	Reproductive and dispersal mechanisms utilized by freshwater mussels
1:45	Sims	Chemistry	*Evolution of Enzyme Active Sites*
2:00	Bergey	Biological Survey	*When diatoms go bad- an old diatom becomes a new invader*
2:15	Hobson	Zoology	*TBA*
2:30	Weldon	History of Science	No Battle Here: Christian Evolutionism and the Modernization of Religion
2:45	Colston	Sam Noble Museum	Dietary Shifts in Snake Evolution Impacts Present Day Community Structure
3:00	Makowicz	Zoology	*Sexual conflict in the social environment*
3:15	Conway	Botany/Microbiology	*Evolution of E. coli symbiosis in the intestine*
3:30	C. Lewis	Anthropology	*The three consistent patterns in human population genetics*
3:45	Hale	History of Science	Promoting and Policing Theism in Evolution from Origin to Descent
4:00	Riggs	Philosophy	*The philosophical importance of 'natural teleology*
4:15	Stevenson	Botany/Microbiology	*Sex in a nodule: lateral transfer of nitrogenase genes*
4:30	Poindexter	Zoology	*Mark-recapture studies in Colima, Mexico*
4:45	Wellborn	Zoology	Ecology and the predictability of evolution: Darwin's entangled bank
5:00	Warren	Anthropology	Ardipithecus ramidus: New fossils expand our understanding of human evolution
5:15	Gaffin	Zoology	Scorpion pectines: an exquisite “belly tongue” and product of 400 million years of evolution
5:30	Curry	Zoology/EEB	*Hybrid zones: Titmice and the nature of species*
5:45	Hough	Biological Survey	Geographic variation in spotted and spinner dolphins in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean
6:00	Strickler	Zoology	*Parent-offspring recognition in cave swallows*
6:15	Ray	Zoology	*Evolution of the Human Mind*
6:30	Smith	OU Health Sciences	Harnessing the power of randomness and natural selection to create an HIV-1 vaccine
6:45	Kelly	Biological Survey	*Migratory Life Histories: Evolution on-the-Move*
7:00	Shik	Zoology	*How ant colonies maintain an army*
7:15	Thompson	Zoology	Flies in Space: The Challenges of Adapting to a Truly Novel Environment
7:30	Nairn	Environmental Engineering	*Ecology in man-made ecosystems*
7:45	Schnell	Sam Noble Museum	*Pattern and Process: Relevance of Isolation by Distance*
8:00	Fares	Chemistry	*TBA*
8:15	Hunter	History of Science	*Darwin's American Supporter Asa Gray*
8:30	Broughton/ Schlupp	Zoology	*Grande Finale*
8:45	Schlupp	taking down
9:00	Schlupp	taking down

"Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history..."

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Charles Robert Darwin
(1809-1882)

"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed, into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning, endless forms, most beautiful and most wonderful, have been and are being, evolved."

On the Origin of Species (1859)

Co-Chairs of the Darwin 2009 Committee:
Dr. Piers J.Hale:
phale@ou.edu
Prof. Ingo Schlupp:
schlupp@ou.edu
Prof. Barry Weaver: bweaver@ou.edu
Dr. Stephen Weldon:
spweldon@ou.edu

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