The 13 Annual Yale Science Forum
May 1, 2008
The Graduate Club
155 Elm Street
New Haven, CT
624-3197
10:00 a.m. - Welcoming coffee, tea, bagels, muffins
SESSION I: 10:15 a.m.
BIOLOGY
Chair: Haig Keshishian, MCDB
Lynn Cooley
Dept of Genetics
“Genetic and genomic strategies to understand biological function”
Thierry Emonet
Dept. of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
“Mathematical models of bacterial behavior”
12:15 p.m. - Lunch Break
(buffet style in the dining room)
SESSION II: 1:15 p.m.
PHOTONS IN PHYSICS AND BIOLOGY
Chair: A. Douglas Stone, Applied Physics
SESSION II continued: 1:15 p.m.
PHOTONS IN PHYSICS AND BIOLOGY
Jack Harris
Dept. of Physics
“The Physics of Radiation Pressure”
Michael Levene
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
“Shining light on biology: multiphoton microscopy and other tricks”
3:15 p.m. - Break
SESSION III: 3:30 p.m.
VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY
Chair: Richard Prum
David Post
Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
“A Tail of Two Fish: Evolutionary Origin and Ecological Implications of Intraspecific Variation in Alewives”
Eric Sargis
Dept. of Anthropology
“Newly discovered primates: implications for primate origins and conservation”
******* EVENING ACTIVITIES *******
5:30 - 6:00 p.m., Cocktails
6:00 - 8:00 p.m., Dinner in the Graduate Club Dining Room