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1 | CONGRESS SCHEDULE OVERVIEW | ||||||||
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3 | DAY 1: Wednesday, August 2 | DAY 2: Thursday, August 3 | DAY 3: Friday, August 4 | ||||||
4 | 8:00-9:00 | Continental Breakfast: Atrium | Continental Breakfast: Atrium | Continental Breakfast: Atrium | |||||
5 | PLENARY: Ballroom | PLENARY: Ballroom | PLENARY: Ballroom | ||||||
6 | 9:00-9:10 | Opening Remarks from the Director | Opening Remarks from the Director | Opening Remarks from the Director | |||||
7 | 9:10-10:10 | Keynote speaker: Marco Tomassini Search Spaces of Hard Combinatorial Optimization Problems | Keynote speaker: Christina Burch Genetic interactions and the evolutionary advantages of sex | Keynote speaker: Kristin Jenkins Teaching Evolution as a 21st Century Skill | |||||
8 | Break Area | Break Area | Break Area | ||||||
9 | 10:10-10:30 | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | |||||
10 | B120 | A170 | B120 | A170 | B120 | A170 | |||
11 | 10:30-12:00 | Horizontal gene transfer in bacteria: Evolutionary origins, maintenance, and practical implications (Alita Burmeister) | Contributed talks: Evolution of behavior | Scientific Virtues Project RCR Session (click to sign up) | Contributed talks: Gene and genome evolution | Power Hour (Maren Friesen) | Contributed talks: Gene expression and regulation | ||
12 | Atrium | Location TBA | Atrium | Atrium | |||||
13 | 12:00-1:30 | Lunch | Executive Committee Meeting | Lunch | Networking with Faculty lunches | Lunch | Networking with Faculty lunches | ||
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15 | 1:30-3:00 | Clickers, Twitters, MOOCs, and Apps! The current state of educational technologies and where we go from here (Bryce Taylor) | Contributed talks: Computational methods in biology | Bootcamp for Biology-based industrial collaborations (Betty Cheng and Jeffrey Barrick) | Contributed talks: Species interactions and coevolution | Build a Frame: Matching the scientific context to the audience (Hans Hofmann and Tessa Solomon-Lane) | Contributed talks: Evolutionary computation | ||
16 | Break Area | Break Area | Break Area | ||||||
17 | 3:00-3:30 | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | |||||
18 | B120 | A170 | B120 | A170 | B120 | A170 | |||
19 | 3:30-5:00 | Improv and Science Communication (Joan Strassmann and Maren Friesen) | Contributed talks: Experimental evolution | Scientific Virtues Project RCR Session (click to sign up) | Contributed talks: Holobionts and symbiosis | Bridging the gap between STEM and public policy? (Tessa Solomon-Lane and Hans Hofmann) | Using MABE (Modular Agent-Based Evolution) (Cliff Bohm) | ||
20 | Atrium | Atrium | |||||||
21 | Evening | 5:00-8:00 Reception and Poster Session Dinner & Cash Bar | 6:00 Dinner | 6:00 Picnic at Patriarche Park | |||||
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