Evolution - The Experience, Conference February 2009: Full Program

Full Program

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.

Darwin: Biology, Agriculture, Medicine, Psychology, History, Politics, Arts, Religion

	SUNDAY 8TH FEBRUARY 2009
2.00pm	Public Event - St Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne
	Church Service – Science and Faith – The Intersection Speakers: - Dr Philip Freier, Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne, Professor Philip Batterham, Department of Genetics, University of Melbourne, Professor John R. Pilbrow, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Monash University Soloist: Richard Thomas
4.00pm	Public Event - John Batman Theatre, MCEC
	Frank Nicholas, University of Sydney Charles Darwin in Australia
6.00pm	Bernie Hobbs, ABC Science (Interviewer) Panel: Brian Schmidt, Steve Jones, University College London, UK, David Karoly, University of Melbourne, Australia Public Forum: Big Bang to Big Bust! – Evolution from Start to Finish

	MONDAY 9 FEBRUARY 2009
9.00am - 9.30am	Welcome
9.30am - 10.15am	P-01 - Genetics Latrobe Theatre
	Jenny Graves, The Australian National University, Australia Weird Animal Genomes, Sex and Dumb Design
10.15am - 11.00am	P-02 - Evolution in Society Latrobe Theatre
	Douglas Futuyma, State University of New York, USA Teaching Evolution and the Nature of Science
11.00am - 11.30am	Morning Tea
11.30am - 1.00pm	SE-01 - Agri Genomics 1 Latrobe Theatre	SE-02 - Selection and Behaviour You Yangs 1 & 2	SE-03 - Darwin’s Impact in 19th Century You Yangs 4 & 5
11.30am - 12.00pm	Frank Nicholas, University of Sydney, Australia Variation Under Domestication: Then and Now	Rick Shine, University of Sydney, Australia Cane Toads in Australia Drive Rapid Evolutionary Change	Jonathan Smith, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA Darwin, Evolutionary Aesthetics, and Victorian Visual Culture
12.00pm - 12.15pm	Ross Tellam, CSIRO Livestock Industries, Australia The Genome Sequence of Taurine Cattle: A Window to Ruminant Biology and Evolution	Céline Frère, University of Queensland, Australia Too Close to Home: Inbreeding Tolerance and Associated Costs in Wild Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops sp.)?
12.15pm - 12.30pm		Stefan Van Dongen, Antwerp University, Belgium What is the Role of Developmental Instability in Human Sexual Selection?	Caitlin Murray, University of Melbourne, Australia Civilisation, Insanity and Evolutionary Theory During the Long Nineteenth Century
12.30pm - 12.45pm	John Forster, Department of Primary Industries, Australia Comparative Genetic and Physical Mapping for Isolation of Gametophytic Self-Incompatibility (SI) Genes of Pasture Grasses	Aldo Poiani, Monash University, Australia Homosexual Behaviour: A Biosocial and Evolutionary Perspective	Barry Butcher, Deakin University, Australia Darwin and the Economists: Hearn, Syme and Political Economy in Victoria, 1863 - 1878
12.45pm - 1.00pm	Manny Delhaize, CSIRO, Australia Evolution of aluminium resistance in wheat by cis-regulatory changes in the TaALMT1 gene	Matthew Symonds, University of Melbourne, Australia The Evolution of Complex Signals: Insect Sex Pheromones	Alison Poulton, University of Sydney, Australia Mental Illness and Survival of the Fittest: Examples Described by Charles Darwin Paired with Illustrations by his Contemporary, Richard Dadd
1.00pm - 2.00pm	Lunch
2.00pm - 3.30pm	SE-04 - Evolutionary Mathematics 1 You Yangs 1 & 2	SE-05 - Human Evolution: How We Became Latrobe Theatre	SE-06 - Avian Biodiversity: Evolution in Action 1 You Yangs 4 & 5
2.00pm - 2.30pm	Marcus Feldman, Stanford University, USA On the Mathematics of Genomic Imprinting	Colin Groves, Australian National University, Australia The Struggle for Human Evolution	John Endler, University of Exeter, UK Bowerbirds and Speciation
2.30pm - 2.45pm	Joao Lopes, University of Reading, United Kingdom Studying Historic Demographic Parameters Using an Approximate Bayesian Computation	Debbie Argue, Australian National University, Australia H. Floresiensis – What it is, What it isn’t, What it means	Les Christidis, Australian Museum, Australia The Australasian Bird Fauna - a Remarkable Laboratory for Investigating Evolutionary Radiations and Speciation
2.45pm - 3.00pm		Ian McDougall, Australian National University, Australia Dating Human Evolution
3.00pm - 3.15pm	Jia Weng, University of Melbourne, Australia Probability Representation and Statistical Models in Phylogenetic Trees	Lars Werdelin, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Sweden A Carnivore’s View of ‘Out of Africa I’	Leo Joseph, Australian National Wildlife Collection, Australia From Molecules to Populations: Insights from DNA into the Evolution of Australian Birds at the Species Level
3.15pm - 3.30pm		Algis Kuliukas, University of Western Australia, Australia Troubling the Waters of Anthropology: Is Wading the Missing Factor in the Evolution of Hominid Bipedalism?
3.30pm - 4.00pm	Afternoon Tea
4.00pm - 5.30pm	SE-07 - Evolutionary Medicine 1 You Yangs 1 & 2	SE-08 - Life History Evolution You Yangs 4 & 5	SE-09 - Genetic Modification Latrobe Theatre
4.00pm - 4.30pm	James Chisholm, University of Western Australia, Australia Evolutionary Public Health	Joanne Isaac, James Cook University, Australia Life History, Ecology and Extinction Risk in Rainforest Vertebrates: are Endemics Different?	German Spangenberg, Department of Primary Industries, Australia Plant Gene Technology in a Climate of Change for Food, Feed and Energy
4.30pm - 4.45pm	David Coall, University of Basel, Switzerland A Life History Theory Model of Fetal Growth in Humans and Supporting Evidence	Martin Burd, Monash University, Australia Phylogenetic and Geographical Patterns of Ovule Number per Flower in Flowering Plants	Derek Russell, University of Melbourne, Australia Bt Crops – One of the World’s Largest Experiments in Resistance Selection
4.45pm - 5.00pm		Juliey Beckman, Monash University, Australia Limits to Litter Size in Antechinus Agilis (agile antechinus): Resource Availability and the Distribution of Teat-Number Phenotypes
5.00pm - 5.30pm	Debra Judge, University of Western Australia, Australia Life History Theory and Health Investments (Invited presentation in "Evolutionary Medicine" Symposium)	Ary Hoffmann, University of Melbourne, Australia Life History Evolution and Climate Adaptation in Drosophila: Latitudinal Patterns and Longitudinal Options	Jack Heinemann, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Biotechnology Supervised by Darwin
6.00pm - 7.00pm	Public Event - Latrobe Theatre, MCEC
	Marcus Feldman, Stanford University, USA Tracing 100,000 years of human history with DNA
7.00pm - 8.00pm	Jonathan Marks, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Darwin’s Ventriloquists
8.00pm - 9.00pm	Steve Jones, University College London, UK Is Human Evolution Over?

	TUESDAY 10 FEBRUARY 2009
9.00am - 9.45am	P-03 - Ecology Latrobe Theatre
	Alan Dixson, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Sexual Selection and the Origins of Human Mating Systems
9.45am - 10.30am	P-04 - Evo-Devo Latrobe Theatre
	Peter Currie, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Australia Evolutionary Origins of Vertebrate Limb Musculature and the Tetrapod Transition.
10.30am - 11.00am	Morning Tea
11.00am - 12.30pm	SE-10 - Evolutionary Mathematics 2 You Yangs 1 & 2	SE-11 - Origins of Life Latrobe Theatre	SE-12 - Genetics 1 You Yangs 4 & 5
11.00am - 11.30am	David Green, Monash University, Australia Why is a Starfish Like an Atomic Bomb?	Bill Schopf, University of California, USA The Earliest History of Life: Solution to Darwin's Dilemma	Ross Crozier, James Cook University, Australia Darwin and the Evolution of Sterility in Social Insects
11.30am - 11.45am		Malcolm Walter, University of New South Wales, Australia The Search for the Earliest Eucaryotes	Mark Schultz, Charles Darwin University, Australia Sea-level changes and palaeo-ranges: Reconstruction of ancient shorelines and river drainages and the phylogeography of the Australian land crayfish Engaeus sericatus Clark (Decapoda: Parastacidae)
11.45am - 12.00pm	Suzanne Sadedin, Monash University, Australia Sexual Selection and the Origins of Diversity		Nathan Lo, Australia Museum, Australia Should Caste Totipotency be Assumed for Termites?
12.00pm - 12.15pm		Charles Lineweaver, Berkeley, Australia Is the Origin of Life a Cosmic Imperative or is it as Unlikely as the Re-evolution of Sulphur-Crested Cockatoos?	Joanna Sumner, Museum Victoria, Australia Current Genetic Isolation and Fragmentation Contrasts with Historical Connectivity in an Australian Alpine Lizard Threatened by Climate Change
12.15pm - 12.30pm			Suhua Shi, Sun Yat-Sen University, China Analysis of Adaptive Salt Tolerance and Speciation in Mangroves by Large Scale Sequencing and Whole Genome Expression
12.30pm - 1.30pm	Lunch
1.30pm - 3.00pm	SE-13 - Agri Genomics 2 You Yangs 1 & 2	SE-14 - Evolutionary Medicine 2 You Yangs 4 & 5	SE-15 - Avian Biodiversity: Evolution in Action 2 Latrobe Theatre
1.30pm - 2.00pm	Leif Andersson, Uppsala University, Sweden Domestic Animals – Unique Models for Understanding the Genetic Mechanisms Underlying Phenotypic Evolution	Peter Gluckman, University of Auckland, New Zealand An Evolutionary Perspective on Puberty and Adolescence	Darren Irwin, University of British Columbia, Canada Evolution of Avian Ring Species
2.00pm - 2.30pm	Mike Goddard, University of Melbourne, Australia Evolution of Domestic Cattle	Roger Short, University of Melbourne, Australia The Evolution of HIV/AIDS
			Anthony Herrel, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, France Biting, Mechanical Constraints, and Trade-offs in Darwin’s Finch Beaks: A Recipe for Ecological Speciation?
2.30pm - 2.45pm	Ben Hayes, Department of Primary Industries, Australia Genomic Selection in Livestock	Greg Gibson, University of Queensland, Australia How a Clash Between our Genes and Modern Culture is Making us Sick	Andy Bennett, Deakin University, Australia Proximate and ultimate causes of the Platycercus elegans parrot species complex of south eastern Australia
2.45pm - 3.00pm	Otto Schmidt, University of Adelaide, Australia Epigenetic Transmission of Inducible Immune and Metabolic Tolerance Mechanisms in Insects
3.00pm - 3.30pm	Afternoon Tea
3.30pm - 5.00pm	SE-16 - Adaptation and Speciation You Yangs 1 & 2	SE-17 - Human Evolution: Why We Became Latrobe Theatre	SE-18 - Darwinism and Society You Yangs 4 & 5
3.30pm - 4.00pm	Ary Hoffmann, University of Melbourne, Australia Identifying Limits to Adaptation: is it Selection or Decay?	Geoffrey Miller, University of New Mexico, USA Sex, Mutations, and Human Intelligence	Iain McCalman, University of Sydney, Australia Thomas Henry Huxley: The Reluctant Evolutionist
4.00pm - 4.15pm	Rod Peakall, Australian National University, Australia Pollinator-Driven Speciation in Sexually Deceptive Australian Orchids	Richard Roberts, University of Wollongong, Australia Written in Stone and Blood: Genetics, Archaeology and Modern Human Evolution
4.15pm - 4.30pm	Michael Whitehead, Australian National University Gene flow in Australian sexually-deceptive orchids
4.30pm - 4.45pm	Alistair Evans, Monash University, Australia How Does Tooth Wear Affect Dental Complexity? Implications for Tooth Function, Nutritional Ecology and Dietary Reconstruction in Mammals	Charles Lineweaver, Berkeley, Australia Encephalization, the Planet of the Apes Hypothesis, and Evidence that Human-like Intelligence is not a Convergent Feature of Evolution	Suzanne Sadedin, Monash University, Australia Studying the Evolution of Culture with Artificial Societies
4.45pm - 5.00pm	Mark Norman, Museum Victoria, Australia Strange Suckers: Morphology, Behaviour and Evolutionary Radiation in Octopuses	Nicholas Bannan, University of Western Australia, Australia Darwin, Music and the Evolution of Human Culture	Gareth Knapman, Museum Victoria, Australia Exchanging Evolution: The National Museum of Victoria and the Exchange System
6.00pm - 7.00pm	Public Event - You Yangs 1 & 2, MCEC	Public Event - Latrobe Theatre, MCEC
	Bill Ballard and Taz What Can Dogs Teach Us About Evolution?	Michael Ruse, Florida State University, USA Has Darwinism Passed its “Sell By” Date? Reflections on the Origin of Species at 150 Years
7.30pm - 8.30pm	Panel Discussion - Latrobe Theatre, MCEC
	Tim Flannery, Macquarie University, Australia Michael Kearney, University of Melbourne, Australia, Lynda Chambers, Bureau of Meteorology, Australia
	Responding to Global Climate Change

	WEDNESDAY 11 FEBRUARY 2009
9.00am - 9.45am	P-05 - Evolutionary Medicine Latrobe Theatre
	Randolph Nesse, University of Michigan, USA Darwinian Medicine: Why isn’t the body better?
9.45am - 9.55am	Room Change
9.55am - 11.25am	SE-19 - Genetics 2 Latrobe Theatre	SE-20 - Evo-Devo 1 You Yangs 1 & 2	SE-21 - Climate Change and Biodiversity I - Lessons from the Past You Yangs 4 & 5
9.55am - 10.25am	Frank Grützner, University of Adelaide, Australia Evolution and Organisation of the Complex Bird-like Sex Chromosomes of Egg-laying Mammals	Jean Joss, Macquarie University, Australia The Australian Lungfish as a Key Species for Evo-Devo.	Stephen Williams, James Cook University, Australia Extinction filters, population size and climate change: using the past to improve prediction of future impacts
10.25am - 10.40am	Linda Bonen, University of Ottawa, Canada Migration of Ribosomal Protein Genes from the Mitochondrion to the Nucleus During Plant Evolution		Peter Kershaw, Monash University, Australia The Response of Flora and Vegetation to Orbital-Scale Climate Change in the Quaternary of Australia
10.40am - 10.55am	Amir Mohammadi, Australian National University, Australia Comparative Gene Mapping in Sequenced Marsupial Species	Adam Skinner, University of Adelaide, Australia Limb Reduction and Loss in Lerista	Nigel Stork, Melbourne University Darwin’s Beetles and Climate Change
10.55am - 11.10am	Janine Deakin, ARC Centre of Excellence for Kangaroo Genomics, Australia The Tammar Wallaby Genome: Providing Insight into Genome Evolution		John La Salle, CSIRO Entomology, Australia Meaningful Innovation in Taxonomy to Enable Biodiversity Outcomes
11.10am - 11.25am	Shafagh Al Nadaf, Australian National University, Australia X Chromosome Inactivation: Insights from Marsupial Mammals	Craig Smith, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute , Australia Evolution of Vertebrate Sex Determination
11.25am - 12.00pm	Morning Tea
12.00pm - 1.30pm	SE-22 - Avian Biodiversity: Evolution in Action 3 Latrobe Theatre	SE-23 - Darwin and Aborigines You Yangs 1 & 2	SE-24 - Early Vertebrate Evolution You Yangs 4 & 5
12.00pm - 12.30pm	Simon Griffith, Macquarie University, Australia Mating Systems and Avian Speciation	Jonathan Marks, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Modelling Human Ancestry: How do you Lose a Gorilla?	John Long, Museum Victoria, Australia The First Steps on Land: The Origins of Tetrapods
12.30pm - 12.45pm	Naomi Langmore, Australian National University, Australia Coevolution between Australian Cuckoos and their Hosts: An Escalating Arms Race	Jennifer Debenham, University of Newcastle, Australia Celluloid Narratives: The Influence of Darwinian Thinking in the Construction of Aboriginality and Whiteness in Australian Ethnographic Films, 1900 - 1950	Timothy Holland, University/Museum Victoria, Australia The Origin and Evolution of Tetrapodomorph Fishes
12.45pm - 1.00pm			Alice Clement, Museum Victoria, Australia Evolution of the Dipnoi (Osteichthyes, Sarcopterygii), with Special Reference to Niche Specialisation of the Gogo Holodontidae
1.00pm - 1.15pm	Kate Buchanan, Deakin University Environmental and Genetic Control of the Avian Song System	Jeanette Hoorn, University of Melbourne, Australia Tom Roberts , Charlie Turner and The Expression of The Emotions in Man and Animals	Brian Choo, Australian National University and Museum Victoria, Australia Dawn of the Ray-fin: The Known Diversity of the Devonian Actinopterygii
1.15pm - 1.30pm			Kate Trinajstic, University of Western Australia, Australia Viviparity and embryonic Development within Ptyctodonts (Placodermi).
1.30pm - 2.30pm	Lunch - then afternoon off to explore Melbourne and Surrounds
5.00pm - 6.00pm	Public Event - Latrobe Theatre, MCEC
	Robert Bakker, Morrison Natural Museum, USA and Bert Roberts, University of Wollongong, Australia Dinosaurs and the Hobbit
6.00pm - 7.00pm	Randolph Nesse, University of Michigan, USA How Can Evolution Help us to Understand and Prevent Disease?
7.00pm - 8.00pm	Geoffrey Miller, University of New Mexico, USA Dawin and the Global Financial Crisis: The Evolutionary Psychology of Conspicuous Consumption
8.00pm - 9.00pm	Alan Harvey, The University of Western Australia, Australia Music, Society and Evolution

	THURSDAY 12 FEBRUARY 2009
9.00am - 9.45am	P-06 - Palaeontology Latrobe Theatre
	Robert Bakker, Morrison Natural Museum, USA Dinosaur Family Values
9.45am - 10.30am	P-07 - Agriculture Latrobe Theatre
	John Vandermeer, University of Michigan, USA The Nature and Natural of Agriculture: The Darwinian World View in the Production of Food and Fiber
10.30am - 11.00am	Morning Tea
11.00am - 12.30pm	SE-25 - Psychology, the Brain and Evolution 1 You Yangs 1 & 2	SE-26 - Evo-Devo 2 You Yangs 4 & 5	SE-27 - Climate Change and Biodiversity II - Contemporary Patterns and Processes Latrobe Theatre
11.00am - 11.30am	Alan Harvey, University of Western Australia, Australia Music, Reward, Altruism and Human Survival: A Review of Neuroimaging Studies	John Bowman, Monash University, Australia Patterning Genes in Land Plants	Mike Kearney, University of Melbourne, Australia Physiology, Evolution and the Impact of Climate Change on Species
11.30am - 11.45am	Thomas Suddendorf, University of Queensland, Australia Evolutionary Comparative Cognition and the Nature of Self-recognition	Warwick Grant, Latrobe University The Evolutionary Genetics of Life History and Development in Parasitic Nematodes	Kate Mitchell, University of Melbourne, Australia Surviving Climate Change: How do Upper Thermal Limits Vary in Drosophila when Examined Using Ecologically Relevant Temperature Regimes?
11.45am - 12.00pm			Philippa Griffin, University of Melbourne, Australia Testing Drought Selection and Evolutionary Response to Climate Change in Australian Alpine Grasses.
12.00pm - 12.15pm	Avi Waksberg, Monash University, Australia Can Irrational Behaviour Maximise Fitness?	Paul Whitington, University of Melbourne, Australia The Evolutionary Standing of the Arthropoda – Insights from the Structure and Development of the Onychophoran Nervous System	Tim O'Hara, Museum Victoria, Australia Modelling the Distributions of Deep-sea Animals for Macro-ecological Patterns and Climate-change Impact Assessments
12.15pm - 12.30pm			Sean Doody, Australian National University, Australia Nest Site Choice as a Buffer: Predicting Climate Responses and Range Margins in Oviparous Reptiles
12.30pm - 1.30pm	Lunch
1.30pm - 3.00pm	SE-28 - Antibiotic/Insecticide/Herbicide Resistance 1 You Yangs 1 & 2	SE-29 - Genetics 3 Latrobe Theatre	SE-30 - Ecology: Adapting to Different Habitats You Yangs 4 & 5
1.30pm - 1.45pm	Hatch Stokes, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Lateral Gene Transfer and Prokaryotic Adaptation: Evolution – but not as Charles Knew it.	Bryan Fry, University of Melbourne, Australia Evolution of an Arsenal: Diversification of the Toxicofera Reptile Venom System	Janine Wojcieszek, University of Western Australia, Australia Sperm Competition in a Polydesmid Millipede (Antichiropus Variabilis) and its Implications for Genital Evolution
1.45pm - 2.00pm			Natalie Warburton, Murdoch University, Australia Unique Morphological Adaptations of Marsupial Moles for Subterranean Locomotion (Marsupialia: Notoryctidae)
2.00pm - 2.15pm	Philip Batterham, University of Melbourne, Australia Insecticide Resistance – Can We Prevent It?	Vidushi Patel, Australian National University, Australia Platypus Globin Genes: Revisiting Globin Evolution	Brett Goodman, James Cook University, Australia The Evolution of Lizard Body Shape in Response to Habitat: Is Reproductive Output Reduced in Flat Lizards?
2.15pm - 2.30pm		Paul Waters, Australian National University, Australia Unravelling Mysteries of Y Chromosome Evolution	Kathryn Raphael, University of Sydney, Australia The Genetics of Species Differences: An Example of Sympatric Speciation in Australian Tephritid Fruit Flies?
2.30pm - 2.45pm	Christopher Preston, University of Adelaide, Australia Evolution in Action – Herbicide Resistance in Weeds	Stefan Bagheri-Fam, Prince Henry's Institute, Australia Analysis of the Sry-responsive Testis-Specific Enhancer of Sox9 in the Sry-Negative Mammalian Species Ellobius Lutescens	Sharron Perks, University of Western Australia, Australia Sperm Competition and the Evolution of the Reproductive Tract in Male Frogs.
2.45pm - 3.00pm		Helen Lindsay, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australia Do Sex-specific Differences in DNA Methylation and Transcription Levels Contribute to Male-biased Evolution?	Richard Holdaway, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Allopatric Speciation in Pelagic Vertebrates: Becoming Isolated in a Continuum
3.00pm - 3.30pm	Afternoon Tea
3.30pm - 5.00pm	SE-31 - Darwin and speculation You Yangs 1 & 2	SE-32 - Infectious Diseases 1 Latrobe Theatre	SE-33 - Perspectives on Evolution You Yangs 4 & 5
3.30pm - 4.00pm	Barbara Creed, University of Melbourne, Australia The Hollywood Musical as Darwinian Mating Game	Alan Cowman, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia Moving in and Renovating: Remodeling of the Human Erythrocyte by the Malaria Parasite	Charles Marshall, Harvard University, USA Explaining the Cambrian Explosion of Animals
4.00pm - 4.15pm	Robert Thurman, ACU-National, Australia The God of Imperfection	Geoff McFadden, University of Melbourne, Australia Malaria: the Plant Connection
4.15pm - 4.30pm	Melville Miranda, Deakin University, Australia Evolution and Sustainability in a Global World		Glenn Brock, Macquarie University, Australia New Fossil Treasures from South Australia and the Quest to Unravel Animal Ancestry during the Cambrian Radiation
4.30pm - 4.45pm	Deborah Graziano, James Cook University, Australia Capabilities and Likelihoods: Universal Darwinism and the Evolution of Collective Violence	Malcolm McConville, University of Melbourne, Australia Adapting to your host. What makes a good parasite?	Gavin Prideaux, Flinders University, Australia Timing of Late-Pleistocene Mammal Extinctions in Southwestern Australia
4.45pm - 5.00pm			Michael Bunce, Murdoch University, Australia Ancient DNA Preservation “Down Under” – What’s Possible and What’s a Pipe Dream

	FRIDAY 13 FEBRUARY 2009
9.00am - 9.45am	P-08 - Climate Change & Biodiversity Latrobe Theatre
	Tim Flannery, Macquarie University, Australia Speed and Scale of the Climate Crisis. Comparisons With Deep Time.
9.45am - 10.30am	P-09 - Psychology Latrobe Theatre
	Martin Daly, McMaster University, Canada Carpe Diem: Future Discounting, Risk-taking, and Homicide
10.30am - 11.00am	Morning Tea
11.00am - 12.30pm	SE-34 - Molecular Evolution Latrobe Theatre	SE-35 - Avian Biodiversity: Evolution in Action 4 You Yangs 1 & 2	SE-36 - Geological Events and Evolution You Yangs 4 & 5
11.00am - 11.15am	John Mattick, University of Queensland, Australia The Eukaryotic Genome as an RNA Machine: a New View of the Evolution and Genomic Programming of Complex Organisms	Mathew Berg, Deakin University, Australia When Parrots Reveal Their True Colours: The Evolution of Phenotpyic Diversity in Rosellas	Gavin Young, Australian National University, Australia Evidence from Geology (Deep Time; the Fossil Record), and its Impact on Darwin’s Ideas, Including Evolution of Complex Organs
11.15am - 11.30am		Raoul Ribot, University of Briston, UK Testing Ring Species Predictions: Vocal Variation in a Parrot, Platycercus Elegans
11.30am - 11.45am	Michael Parker, St. Vincent's Institute of Medical Research, Australia Evolution of Protein Molecules	Joe Woodgate, Cardiff University, UK Does Developmental Stress Affect Female Choice in the Zebra Finch?	Guang Shi, Deakin University, Australia The Great Transition: Life, Death and Ecosystem Evolution Across the Permian-Triassic Boundary 252 Million Years Ago
11.45am - 12.00pm		Simon Watson, Deakin University Bird Population Responses to Fire: Insights From species’ Ecological Traits
12.00pm - 12.15pm	John Oakeshott, CSIRO, Australia Evolution of New Biochemical Functions and the “Neutral Drift/Promiscuous Activity” Theory of Enzyme Evolution	Rohan Clarke Deakin University Landscape-level Benefits of Revegetation to Birds in an Agricultural System	Gareth Nelson, Melbourne University, Australia Biogeography and the Molecular Dating Game
12.15pm - 12.30pm		Discussion
12.30pm - 1.30pm	Lunch
1.30pm - 3.00pm	SE-37 - Psychology, the Brain and Evolution 2 You Yangs 1 & 2	SE-38 - Infectious Diseases 2 Latrobe Theatre	SE-39 - Antibiotic/Insecticide/Herbicide Resistance 2 You Yangs 4 & 5
1.30pm - 2.00pm	Jonathan Foster, University of Western Australia, Australia Neuroevolution and Neurodegeneration: Two Sides of the Same Coin?	Alex Andrianopoulos, University of Melbourne, Australia Genomic Studies and the Evolution of a Fungal Pathogen	Karl Gordon, CSIRO, Australia Genomics of Pest Insects – Insights into Genetic Changes and Regulatory Mechanisms Enabling the Evolution of Host Adaptation and other Aspects of Insect Biology
2.00pm - 2.30pm	Sabura Allen, Monash University, Australia Adult Attachment and Partner-Specific Mating Behaviours	Philip Weinstein, University of Queensland, Australia Coevolution, Cultural Evolution and Emerging Infectious Disease: Ross River Virus in Australia	Phillip Daborn, University of Melbourne, Australia Evolution and Function of Drosophila Cytochrome P450 Genes
2.30pm - 2.45pm	Michael Smith, University of Western Australia, Australia Neurohormonal Mechanisms Underlying Memory: an Evolutionary Perspective	Katherine Belov, University of Sydney, Australia The Genetics of Devil Facial Tumour Disease	Charles Robin, University of Melbourne, Australia Evolution on Steroids
2.45pm - 3.00pm			Wai Yee Low, University of Melbourne, Australia A Novel Toolkit Approach for Probing Insect Detoxification Systems
3.00pm - 3.30pm	Afternoon Tea
3.30pm - 5.00pm	P-10 - Closing Session - Not to be Missed Latrobe Theatre
	Paul Chambers, The Australian Wine Research Institute, Australia Variation Under Domestication: Domestic Yeasts, Their Differences and Origins

Poster Title	Presenting Author
Microsatellites in extinct New Zealand moa – ancient population genetics goes nuclear	Morten Allentoft, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
The RNA Hypothesis for Regulatory Evolution in Complex Organisms	Paulo Amaral, University of Queensland, Australia
Caldibacter thermae gen. nov., sp. nov., Thermophile of a previously uncultured lineage of the Phylum Chloroflexi, Caldibacteria classis nov.	Sang-Hoon Baek, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Republic of Korea
Can an invasive parthenogenetic organism take over the world?	Valerie Caron, Monash University, Australia
Vadicola ignavus gen. nov., sp. nov., the member of Actinomycetaceae family, first isolated from environment	Yingshun Cui, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Republic of Korea
The Phylogeographic Effects of Quaternary Climate Oscillations Upon Two Taxonomically Discreet Congeneric Petaurids (Petaurus spp).	Paul Ferraro, James Cook University & Museum Victoria, Australia
Saint Charles and his fellow creatures; ethical legacies and opportunities of the life and work of Charles Darwin	Matt Gaughwin, Drug and Alcohol Services, Australia
The effect of over-expression of human antimicrobial peptide LL-37 in both of Eschericia coli and Donggin rice on the resistance to bacterial pathogens	Bayarbat Ishvaanjil, Hankyong National University, South Korea
Diversity of Phenol, Monochlorophenol and 4-Chlorobiphenyl-degrading Bacteria isolated Using Colony PCR Method	Long Jin, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Republic of Korea
Evolution of polyploidy in Gymnadenia conopsea agg. (Orchidaceae) – flow cytometric approach	Barbora Kubátová, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic
Genetic Responses to Climate Change in the Common Brown Butterfly (Heteronympha merope merope)	Anna Lister, La Trobe University, Australia
Molecular Evolution within C2 Protease Family	Liudmila Lysenko, Institute of Biology Russian Academy of Science, Russian Federation
Assessing the adaptation potential of Carex species to climate change in the Victorian Alps using microsatellite markers.	Jessica M'Baya, CESAR University of Melbourne, Australia
Mitochondrial DNA variation of the marble goby, Oxyeleotris marmoratus (BLEEKER, 1852) in Malaysia	Siti Azizah Mohd Nor, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
On The Involvement Of Glutathione S-Transferases In The Development Of Insecticide Resistance In Lucilia Cuprina: Preliminary Proteomic Studies	Ramavati Pal, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Adaptation underground: selection in aquatic ecosystems	Yvonne Parsons, La Trobe University, Australia
Evolution on the rocks: genetic divergence of closely related Eucalyptus populations over small spatial scales in the Grampians National Park, VIC.	Laura Shirley, University of Melbourne, Australia
De-evolving the parkin-PACRG locus – Analysis of the Evolutionary Structure of a Bidirectional Locus Associated with Parkinson’s Disease.	Sarah Stephenson, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Australia
Common indels in the coding regions of domesticated and wild rice genomes	Tian Tang, Sun Yat-sen University
Origin and evolution of new functions: example of the prion-protein family genes, PRNP and PRND	Tatiana Vassilieva, Australian National University, Australia
Evolution of Class IV Homeodomain-Leucine Zipper Genes in Embryophytes	Christopher Zalewski, Monash University, Australia