74th Cold Spring Harbor Symposium
on Quantitative Biology
May 27 - June 1, 2009
Abstract Deadline: March 6, 2009

Organizers:
David Stewart, Bruce Stillman & Jan Witkwoski
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Outline Program The Guardian's Darwin site

Past Program

We are pleased to host the 74th Cold Spring Harbor Symposium which will address Evolution: The Molecular Landscape. The Symposium will begin at 7:30 pm on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 and end with a banquet on Monday June 1.

The Symposium will include 12 oral sessions and 2 poster sessions covering the latest findings evolutionary biology. Most of the talks will be given by invited speakers but we intend to award several Symposium fellowships to younger scientists presenting work through openly submitted abstracts who will earn the opportunity to present their latest work in the form of short talks. Social events throughout the Symposium provide ample opportunity for informal interactions and will include a wine-and-cheese party, a beach picnic, cocktails and banquet, and departure brunch.

Topics:
• Darwin and Evolution
• Origins of Life
• Evolution of Molecular Functions & Machines
• Cellular Life
• Natural Selection
• Origin of Species
• Sex and Sexual Selection
• Diversity of Life
• Domestication of Animals & Plants
• Genome Evolution
• Current Gaps in Evolutionary Theory, Future Research
• Human Origins & Population Dynamics
• Interactions between Organisms
• Human Attributes

Speakers:
Leif Andersson, Uppsala University, Sweden
Frances Arnold, California Institute of Technology
Nick Barton, University of Edinburgh, UK
Richard Behringer, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Janet Browne, Harvard University
Carlos Bustamante, Cornell University
Sean Carroll, University of Wisconsin
Thomas Cech, University of Colorado at Boulder
Brian Charlesworth, University of Edinburgh, UK
Quentin Cronk, University of British Columbia, Canada
Jeff Dangl, University of North Carolina
Eric Davidson, California Institute of Technology
Bernard Degnan, University of Queensland, Australia
Daniel Dennett, Tufts University
John Doebley, University of Wisconsin
Russell Doolittle, University of California, San Diego
W. Ford Doolittle, Dalhousie University, Canada
Barbara Forrest, Southeastern Louisiana University
Kevin Foster, Harvard University
Claire Fraser-Liggett, University of Maryland
Seth Grant, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK
Volker Hartenstein, University of California, Los Angeles
Marc Hauser, Harvard University
David Haussler, University of California, Santa Cruz
Paul Hebert, University of Guelph
Hopi Hoekstra, Harvard University
Gerald Joyce, Scripps Research Institute
Nicole King, University of California, Berkeley
David Kingsley, HHMI, Stanford University
Eugene Koonin, National Library of Medicine
Leonid Kruglyak, Princeton University
Richard Lenski, Michigan State University
Michael Levine, University of California, Berkeley
Tom Little, University of Edinburgh, UK
Derek Lovley, University of Massachusetts
Lynn Margulis, University of Massachusetts
Robert Martienssen, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Kenneth R. Miller, Brown University
Armin Moczek, Indiana University
Eric Olson, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Svante Pääbo, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
Kevin Padian, University of California, Berkeley
David Page, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Nipam Patel, University of California, Berkeley
Steven Pinker, Harvard University
Venki Ramakrishnan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK
Matt Ridley, Newcastle, UK
Gene Robinson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Barbara Schaal, Washington University
Eugenie Scott, National Center for Science Education
Doug Soltis, University of Florida
Pam Soltis, University of Florida
Jack Szostak, Harvard University
Joe Thornton, University of Oregon
Sarah Tishkoff, University of Pennsylvania
Paul Turner, Yale University
Douglas Wallace, University of California, Irvine
Tim White, University of California, Berkeley
Edward Wilson, Harvard University
Richard Wrangham, Harvard University

We are accepting abstracts for consideration as poster or Symposium Fellows presentations (see below). Abstracts should contain only new and unpublished material and must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Status of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers

The Symposium Fellows program will award eight fellowships selected from the submitted abstracts on the basis of scientific merit to outstanding young investigators (grad students, postdocs and less-than-five year principle investigators only) who will be provided with registration, room and board costs of attending the meeting and will be invited to present their research as short talks at the Symposium..

We look forward to seeing you at Cold Spring Harbor in May/June.

The Symposium is supported in part by funds provided by CSHL's Corporate Sponsor Program, the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.

We have funds to provide partial scholarships for individuals who are US citizens/permanent residents from minority groups under-represented in the life sciences. Please provide justification in writing to meetings@cshl.edu and state your financial needs. Preference will be given to those applying who submit abstracts.

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Regular packages are all inclusive and cover registration, food, housing, parking, wine-and-cheese party, lobster banquet, etc. No Housing packages include all costs except housing. Full payment is due 4 weeks prior to the meeting.