University of Alaska Fairbanks hosts evolution conference
University of Alaska Fairbanks hosts evolution conference
Submitted by Marie Gilbert
Phone: 907-474-7412
06/02/05
Join the Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, and University of Alaska Museum of the North for Evolution 2005-- a jointly sponsored annual conference of the Society for the Study of Evolution, the Society of Systematic Biologists, and the American Society of Naturalists June 10-14, 2005, in Fairbanks, Alaska.
How does climate change affect animals’ body size? How can fish live without oxygen-carrying hemoglobin? How do nectar-secreting organs on aspen trees provide pest protection? How does extreme light and dark in the subarctic affect circadian rhythms?
"Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution,"? said Theodosius Dobzhansky, one of the founders of the modern synthesis of evolutionary theory.
Join the Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, and University of Alaska Museum of the North for Evolution 2005 - a jointly sponsored annual conference of the Society for the Study of Evolution, the Society of Systematic Biologists, and the American Society of Naturalists June 10-14, 2005 in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Evolution 2005 is bringing more than 1,000 people from around the world to Fairbanks for a week of symposia, poster sessions and workshops covering all things evolutionary.
Symposia include: evolution of mating preferences; teaching evolutionary development in college; empowering the next generation of evolutionary biologists; population genetics of adptation to Arctic and alpine environments; species variation in the context of global climate change: revisiting the rules; insects that live symbiotically within other insects as agents of evolutionary change; genetics and development of color patterns in butterflies, reptiles, mice and more.
Conference information is available online at: www.evolution05.uaf.edu/
Contact: Marie Gilbert, Publications and Information Coordinator, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 907-474-7412 or email at marie.gilbert@uaf.edu.