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Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences Opening Symposium

When:We 22-04-2015 10:30 - 20:00
Where:Bernouilliborg, Lecture room 5161.0151 & Linnaeusborg, Central hall

The Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences presents its Opening Symposium on 22 April

Attendance (including lunch, tea, drinks and dinner) is free. Note: registration for the symposium including food & drinks is now closed, but you are welcome to attend the talks!

More information and abstracts

Programme:

Bernouilliborg, room 151
10:30 - 11:00 Registration & Coffee
11:00 - 11:30 Opening
the GELIFES director, the Board of the Faculty of Science and Engineering and the Board of the University
11:30 - 12:20 Randolph Nesse (Arizona State University)
Medicine without evolution is like engineering without physics
Linnaeusborg, central hall
12:20 - 13:10 Lunch
Bernouilliborg, room 151
13:10 - 14:00 Pat Monaghan (University of Glasgow)
Growing up and growing old: linking proximate and ultimate approaches
14:00 - 15:10 Poster session 1 (odd numbers) & Tea
15:10 - 16:00 Tobias Uller (Lund University)
Proximate and ultimate causation in contemporary biology
16:00 - 17:10 Poster session 2 (even numbers) & Drinks
17:10 - 18:00 Thomas Flatt (University of Lausanne)
The molecular (genomic) basis of life history adaptation, with a special focus on aging
Linnaeusborg, central hall
18:00 - 20:00 Dinner & announcement of Poster Awards