Keynote speakers

Yasmin Haddad is FRQSC postdoctoral fellow at Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada. Yasmin is a philosopher of science with specialization in philosophy of biology and data ethics. Her research explores conceptual, ethical and epistemic issues surrounding human population genetics, with a focus on the concept of ancestry. In past work, Yasmin has written about causation in biology and evolutionary theory.

Rose Novick is a philosopher of the life sciences at the University of Washington, with specialization in the philosophy of evolutionary theory. In past work, she has focused extensively on evolutionary-developmental biology; her current and future work focuses on the philosophy of evolutionary cell biology.

Anne Pringle is a biologist focused on understanding the biodiversity of fungi. She is currently a Rubinstein Professor in the Botany Department of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her many papers on invasive mushrooms and spore dispersal bear witness to the changes happening on Earth and draw attention to fungi as ubiquitous and essential parts of our landscapes. To see Pringle talk about fungi, invasion by death caps, and the microbiomes of pitcher plants, please visit the ibiology website. To read her publications and see her lab’s video about working with fungi please visit her laboratory website.