Evolution - The Experience
Call For Papers
2009 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, and the 150th anniversary of his landmark publication On the Origin of Species. Because of Darwin evolution has become an accepted theory, explaining the great diversity of animal and plant life on Earth and underpinning much of the medical, psychological, agricultural and biological research going on in the world today. Evolutionary theory has permeated many other facets of modern life from economics to politics to theology.
Key Dates:
Poster Submission closes: 9th January 2009
The deadline for poster submissions is 9th January 2009 and the word limit for abstracts is 250words. We will be accepting abstracts for the following presentation types and on the following themes.
Oral Presentation
The oral presentation is a great way of informing the audience of your research, theoretical, professional or practice issues in a concise manner. You will have 15 minutes to present your original and innovative work followed by five minutes of question time. Although there may be multiple authors for the paper, only a maximum of the two authors can present the paper. The program committee will group oral presentations into symposiums throughout the program.
Poster Display
The poster presentation involves displaying your research, theoretical, professional and / or practice issues in a visual format. This is an ideal medium for complex visual information and allows you to have personal interaction with your audience. More than one author may be involved in the poster display.
Symposium Themes
Abstracts must be submitted in one of the following themes. Please see the program overview for further information on these themes.
- MEDICINE – the evolution of human survival
- PSYCHOLOGY – the evolution of human behaviour
- GENETICS – small molecules & big impacts
- ECOLOGY – understanding evolution in nature
- ORIGINS OF LIFE – the dawn of evolution
- EVO-DEVO – evolutionary developmental biology
- PALAEONTOLOGY – fossil evidence of evolution
- CLIMATE CHANGE & BIODIVERSITY – the bigger planetary picture
- AGRICULTURE – manipulating nature & evolution
- SOCIETY – the impact of Darwin & Darwin's ideas
- HUMAN EVOLUTION – evolution of the human species
- MATHEMATICS – the modelling of evolution
- ARTS AND HUMANITIES
