AAAS（全米科学振興協会）コミュのAAAS今年の年次大会

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セクションGの宣伝。

Dear Colleague,

Next year is significant for biologists, marking the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his Origin of Species. The AAAS meeting in Chicago in February will be of interest to biologists because it will celebrate the legacy of Darwin in both symposia and plenary lectures. I am writing in my capacity as Secretary of Section G to tell you about the symposia that the officers of Section G solicited as part of this celebration and other events that will make the meeting exciting.

The officers of Section G solicited the development of nine symposia on current topics in evolutionary biology, and Section G is supporting these symposia and three others that are relevant to this theme. They fall into three broad areas:

Evolution and Diversification of Life

* Microbes in a changing world: The lessons of Darwin
Organized by Roberto Kolter, Harvard University
* Frontiers in the plant tree of life
Organized by Mike Donoghue, Yale University
* Studying vertebrate genomes: Reading evolution’s notebooks
Organized by Eric Green, NIH
* Symbiosis as an evolutionary driver: Mergers of cells and genomes
Organized by Jeff Palmer, Indiana University

Mechanisms That Make Life as We Know It Possible

* Synthetic Life
Organized by Christina Smolke, CalTech
* Animal body plan: Evolution of development
Organized by Chris Lowe, University of Chicago
* Green, gene, growing machines: The evolutionary shaping of plant form
Organized by David Baum, University of Wisconsin
* Microbial communication: Single cells gain a voice
Organized by Clay Fuqua, Indiana University

Consequences and Caveats: New Ideas about Life

* Host-pathogen interactions: Evolution of immune defenses
Organized by Nancy Beckage, University of California Riverside, and Charles Samuel, University of California Santa Barbara
* Epigenetics: Mechanisms and impact on Biomedicine
Organized by Walter Doerfler, University of Cologne
* Evolution of mammalian retroelement activity
Organized by RC von Borstel, University of Alberta, and Jef Boeke, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
* Evolution makes sense of biology
Organized by Eugenie Scott, National Center for Science Education, Oakland, CA

There will also be plenary talks by Sean Carroll, University of Wisconsin, prize-winning author of lay and scientific books and NOVA programs on the new science of EvoDevo, and by Svante Pääbo, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

I urge you to attend the 2009 AAAS Annual Meeting in Chicago.

Carol Newlon
Secretary, Section G

http://www.aaas.org/meetings/