YSEF 2008

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