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

	MONDAY 9 FEBRUARY 2009
9.00am - 9.45am	P-01 - Genetics
9.00am - 9.45am	Jenny Graves, The Australian National University, Australia To be advised
9.45am - 10.30am	P-02 - Evolution in Society
9.45am - 10.30am	Douglas Futuyma, State University of New York, USA Teaching Evolution and the Nature of Science
10.30am - 11.00am	Morning Tea
11.00am - 12.30pm	SE-01 - Agri Genomics 1	SE-02 - Selection and Behaviour	SE-03 - Darwin’s Impact in 19th Century
11.00am - 11.30am	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
11.30am - 11.45am	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.)?	To be advised
11.45am - 12.00pm		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
12.00pm - 12.15pm	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
12.15pm - 12.30pm	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.
12.30pm - 2.00pm	Lunch
2.00pm - 3.30pm	SE-04 - Evolutionary Mathematics 1	SE-05 - Human Evolution: How We Became	SE-06 - Avian Biodiversity: Evolution in Action 1
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	Richard Roberts, University of Wollongong, Australia Written in stone and blood: genetics, archaeology and modern human evolution	Les Christidis, Australian Museum, Australia The Australasian Bird Fauna- a Remarkable Laboratory for Investigating Evolutionary Radiations and Speciation
2.45pm - 3.00pm	Jia Weng, University of Melbourne, Australia Probability Representation and Statistical Models in Phylogenetic Trees
3.00pm - 3.15pm	Michael Kirley, University of Melbourne, Australia Evolutionary Computation: From Theory to Practical Applications	To be advised	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		To be advised
3.30pm - 4.00pm	Afternoon Tea
4.00pm - 5.30pm	SE-07 - Evolutionary Medicine 1	SE-08 - Life History Evolution	SE-09 - Genetic Modification
4.00pm - 4.15pm	James Chisholm, University of Western Australia, Australia Evolutionary Public Health	To be advised	German Spangenberg, Department of Primary Industries, Australia Plant Gene Technology in a Climate of Change for Food, Feed and Energy
4.15pm - 4.30pm		Joanne Isaac, James Cook University, Australia Life History, Ecology and Extinction Risk in Rainforest Vertebrates: are Endemics Different?
4.30pm - 4.45pm	Greg Gibson, University of Queensland, Australia How a Clash Between our Genes and Modern Culture is Making us Sick	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		John Morrongiello, Monash University, Australia Reproductive Investment Variation in Southern Pygmy Perch
5.00pm - 5.15pm	David Coall, University of Basel, Switzerland A Life History Theory Model of Fetal Growth in Humans and Supporting Evidence	Nick Murphy, University of Adelaide, Australia Landscape vs Life History. Shaping the Distribution of Groundwater Dependent Organisms in Australia’s Great Artesian Basin	To be advised
5.15pm - 5.30pm	Debra Judge, University of Western Australia, Australia Life History Theory and Health Investments	Juliey Beckman, Monash University, Australia Limits to Litter Size in Antechinus Agilis (agile antechinus): Resource Availability and the Distribution of Teat-Number Phenotypes	To be advised
6.00pm - 7.00pm	Public Event
6.00pm - 7.00pm	Marcus Feldman, Stanford University, USA Darwin and The Human Genome

	TUESDAY 10 FEBRUARY 2009
9.00am - 9.45am	P-03 - Ecology
9.00am - 9.45am	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
9.45am - 10.30am	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	SE-11 - Origins of Life	SE-12 - Genetics 1
11.00am - 11.30am	David Green, Monash University, Australia Why is a Starfish Like an Atomic Bomb?	Bill Schopf, UCLA, 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	Suzanne Sadedin, Monash University, Australia From Bones to Bytes: Revolutionary Moments in Evolutionary Theory	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			Nathan Lo, Australia Museum, Australia Should Caste Totipotency be Assumed for Termites?
12.00pm - 12.15pm	Jon McCormack, Monash University, Australia Evolutionary Virtual Ecosystems: the Application of Ecosystem Dynamics to Design and Creativity	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			To be advised
12.30pm - 2.00pm	Lunch
2.00pm - 3.30pm	SE-13 - Agri Genomics 2	SE-14 - Evolutionary Medicine 2	SE-15 - Avian Biodiversity: Evolution in Action 2
2.00pm - 2.30pm	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 an Avian Ring Species
2.30pm - 2.45pm	Mike Goddard, University of Melbourne, Australia Evolution of domestic cattle	Roger Short, University of Melbourne, Australia The Evolution of HIV/AIDS
2.45pm - 3.00pm			Anthony Herrel, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, France Biting, mechanical constraints, and trade-offs in Darwin’s finch beaks: a recipe for ecological speciation?
3.00pm - 3.15pm	Ben Hayes, Department of Primary Industries, Australia Genomic Selection in Livestock	To be advised
3.15pm - 3.30pm	Otto Schmidt, University of Adelaide, Australia Epigenetic Transmission of Inducible Immune and Metabolic Tolerance Mechanisms in Insects	To be advised	Andy Bennett, Deakin University, Australia To be advised
3.30pm - 4.00pm	Afternoon Tea
4.00pm - 5.30pm	SE-16 - Adaptation and Speciation	SE-17 - Human Evolution: Why We Became	SE-18 - Darwinism and Society
4.00pm - 4.30pm	Ary Hoffmann, University of Melbourne, Australia Identifying Limits to Adaptation: is it Selection or Decay?	Geoffrey Miller, University of New Mexico, USA To be advised	Iain McCalman, University of Sydney, Australia Thomas Henry Huxley: The Reluctant Evolutionist
4.30pm - 4.45pm	Marie Herberstein, Macquarie University, Australia Are Australians more Deceptive than Europeans? Lessons from Crab Spiders	Algis Kuliukas, University of Western Australia, Australia Troubling the Waters of Anthropology: Is Wading the Missing Factor in the Evolution of Hominid Bipedalism?
4.45pm - 5.00pm	Rod Peakall, Australian National University, Australia Pollinator-Driven Speciation in Sexually Deceptive Australian Orchids	Lars Werdelin, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Sweden A Carnivore’s View of ‘Out of Africa I’	To be advised
5.00pm - 5.15pm	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 To be advised
5.15pm - 5.30pm	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

	WEDNESDAY 11 FEBRUARY 2009
9.00am - 9.45am	P-05 - Evolutionary Medicine
9.00am - 9.45am	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	SE-20 - Evo-Devo 1	SE-21 - Climate Change and Biodiversity I - Lessons from the Past
9.55am - 10.25am	Frank Grützner, University of Adelaide, Australia Evolution and organisation of the complex bird-like sex chromosomes of egg-laying mammals	To be advised	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	Jean Joss, Macquarie University, Australia The Australian Lungfish as a Key Species for Evo-Devo.	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		To be advised
10.55am - 11.10am	Janine Deakin, ARC Centre of Excellence for Kangaroo Genomics, Australia The Tammar Wallaby Genome: Providing Insight into Genome Evolution	Adam Skinner, University of Adelaide, Australia Limb Reduction and Loss in Lerista	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	SE-23 - Darwin and Aborigines	SE-24 - Early Vertebrate Evolution
12.00pm - 12.30pm	Simon Griffith, Macquarie University, Australia Mating Systems and Avian Speciation	Jonathan Marks, University of North Carolina, USA	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	Jonathan Marks, University of North Carolina, USA	Timothy Holland, Monash University, Australia The Origin and Evolution of Tetrapodomorph Fishes
12.45pm - 1.00pm		Marguerita Stephens, University of Melbourne, Australia Darwin, Huxley and Strzelecki: Theorising Aboriginal Extinction.	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	Discussion	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	Brian Choo, Australian National University, Australia Dawn of the Ray-fin: The known Diversity of the Devonian Actinopterygii
1.15pm - 1.30pm	Discussion	Grant McCall, University of New South Wales, Australia Darwin and the Natives: Anthropology and Evolution	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

	THURSDAY 12 FEBRUARY 2009
9.00am - 9.45am	P-06 - Palaeontology
9.00am - 9.45am	Robert Bakker, Morrison Natural Museum, USA To be advised
9.45am - 10.30am	P-07 - Agriculture
9.45am - 10.30am	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	SE-26 - Evo-Devo 2	SE-27 - Climate Change and Biodiversity II - Contemporary Patterns and Processes
11.00am - 11.30am	Alan Harvey, University of Western Australia, Australia Music, Reward, Altruism and Human Survival: a Review of Neuroimaging Studies	Brian Hall, Dalhousie University, Canada Darwin’s Evolutionary Embryology is Today’s Evo-Devo	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	John Bowman, Monash University, Australia Patterning Genes in Land Plants	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	Robert Kenny, La Trobe University, Australia Natural Selection And Psychological Need For Recapitulation	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	Avi Waksberg, Monash University, Australia Can Irrational Behaviour Maximise Fitness?		Sean Doody, Australian National University, Australia Nest Site Choice as a Buffer: Predicting Climate Responses and Range Margins in Oviparous Reptiles
12.30pm - 2.00pm	Lunch
2.00pm - 3.30pm	SE-28 - Antibiotic/Insecticide/Herbicide Resistance 1	SE-29 - Genetics 3	SE-30 - Ecology: Adapting to Different Habitats
2.00pm - 2.15pm	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
2.15pm - 2.30pm			Natalie Warburton, Murdoch University, Australia Unique Morphological Adaptations of Marsupial Moles for Subterranean Locomotion (Marsupialia: Notoryctidae)
2.30pm - 2.45pm	Philip Batterham, University of Melbourne, Australia Insecticide Resistance – Can We Prevent It?	Vidushi Patel, ARC Centre of Excellence for Kangaroo Genomics, 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?
2.45pm - 3.00pm		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?
3.00pm - 3.15pm	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.
3.15pm - 3.30pm		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
3.30pm - 4.00pm	Afternoon Tea
4.00pm - 5.30pm	SE-31 - Darwin and speculation	SE-32 - Infectious Diseases 1	SE-33 - Perspectives on Evolution
4.00pm - 4.30pm	Barbara Creed, University of Melbourne, Australia To be advised	Alan Cowman, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia To be advised	Charles Marshall, Harvard University, USA Explaining the Cambrian Explosion of Animals
4.30pm - 4.45pm	Robert Thurman, ACU-National, Australia The God of Imperfection	Geoff McFadden, University of Melbourne, Australia To be advised	Glenn Brock, Macquarie University, Australia New Fossil Treasures From South Australia and the Quest to Unravel Animal Ancestry During the Cambrian Radiation
4.45pm - 5.00pm	Steven L Peck, Brigham Young University, United States Mormonism and Evolution: A Success Story?		Anne Warren, Museum Victoria, Australia To be advised
5.00pm - 5.15pm	Melville Miranda, Deakin University, Australia Evolution and Sustainability in a Global World	Malcolm McConville, University of Melbourne, Australia To be advised	Gavin Prideaux, Flinders University, Australia Timing of Late-Pleistocene Mammal Extinctions in Southwestern Australia
5.15pm - 5.30pm	Deborah Graziano, James Cook University, Australia Capabilities and Likelihoods: Universal Darwinism and the Evolution of Collective Violence		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
9.00am - 9.45am	Tim Flannery, Macquarie University, Australia Speed and Scale of the Climate Crisis. Comparisons With Deep Time.
9.45am - 10.30am	P-09 - Psychology
9.45am - 10.30am	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		SE-36 - Geological Events and Evolution
11.00am - 11.30am	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		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
11.30am - 11.45am	Michael Parker, St. Vincent's Institute of Medical Research, Australia To be advised		To be advised
11.45am - 12.00pm			Guang Shi, Deakin University, Australia The Great Transition: Life, Death and Ecosystem Evolution Across the Permian-Triassic Boundary 252 Million Years Ago
12.00pm - 12.15pm	John Oakeshott, CSIRO, Australia Evolution of new biochemical functions and the “neutral drift/promiscuous activity” theory of enzyme evolution
12.15pm - 12.30pm			Gary Neilson, Australia To be advised
12.30pm - 2.00pm	Lunch
2.00pm - 3.30pm	SE-37 - Psychology, the Brain and Evolution 2	SE-38 - Infectious Diseases 2	SE-39 - Antibiotic/Insecticide/Herbicide Resistance 2
2.00pm - 2.30pm	Jonathan Foster, University of Western Australia, Australia Neuroevolution and Neurodegeneration: Two Sides of the Same Coin?	Alex Andrianopoulos, University of Melbourne, Australia To be advised	Karl Gordon, CSIRO, Australia To be advised
2.30pm - 2.45pm	Sabura Allen, Monash University, Australia To be advised	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
2.45pm - 3.00pm
3.00pm - 3.15pm	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
3.15pm - 3.30pm			Wai Yee Low, University of Melbourne, Australia A Novel Toolkit Approach for Probing Insect Detoxification Systems
3.30pm - 4.00pm	Afternoon Tea
4.00pm - 5.30pm	P-10 - Closing Session - Not to be Missed

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
Detecting site-specific adaptive evolution of hepatitis C virus full-length coding sequence and envelope protein-coding genes	Zhong Bojian, Fudan University, China
Human Behavior-What to do and dont's for improving relations	Subhash Chandra, IBM India Pvt Ltd, India
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
Evolution of shoot apical meristems in vascular plants	Sandra Floyd, Monash University, 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
Point mutations and their consequence on molecular evolutionary trends of proteins	D M MAHISHI, Acharya Institue of Sciences, India
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
The evolutionary development of limb length in the Australian agamid lizards	Georgia Mantziou, 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
Adaptation underground: selection in aquatic ecosystems	Yvonne Parsons, La Trobe University, Australia
Evolution of KNOX homeobox gene functions in land plants	Keiko Sakakibara, Monash University, Australia
Dynamic Modelling Gene Expression with Kernel PCA from Time-course Microarrays	Ying Shan, La Trobe University, Australia
Can an invasive parthenogenetic organism take over the world?	Caron Valerie, Monash University, Australia
Mating Compatibility and PCR-RFLP of Ganoderma from Palm Hosts	Latiffah Zakaria, University Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Evolution of Class IV Homeodomain-Leucine Zipper Genes in Embryophytes	Christopher Zalewski, Monash University, Australia

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Evolution - The Experience

Full Program

Conference 8–13 February 2009
Melbourne Convention Centre Australia

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Evolution - The Experience

Full Program

Conference 8–13 February 2009 Melbourne Convention Centre Australia

Major Sponsor:

Conference 8–13 February 2009
Melbourne Convention Centre Australia