Wednesday, August 12
9:30-10am
Marshall Abrams, "When should drift and selection be distinguished?"
10-10:30am
Zachary Mayne, "Causal constraints and the partial autonomy of evolutionary modeling"
10:30-11am
Break
11am-12pm
Christopher Pearson, "The Explanatory Dimensions of Homology"
12-1:30pm
Catered lunch and professional development session: Federica Bocchi, "Working and Teaching with GenAI"
1:30-2pm
Roberta L Millstein, "Thinking about the relationship between Leopoldian land health and resilience"
2-2:30pm
Eric Anderson, "Invasibility is NOT the criterion of coexistence"
2:30-3pm
Alan Love and Benedikt Hallgrímsson, "Genetic Approaches to Development: Research Agendas in Conceptual Tension"
3pm-3:30pm
Break
3:30pm-5:30pm
Keynote: Yasmin Haddad, “Objective Biology: Lessons from Human Population Genetics”
5:30pm on
Free time/dinner
Thursday, August 13
9:30-10am
Patrick Ferree, "Everything, everywhere, all at once: Cell atlas construction in big and small biology"
10-10:30am
Kathryn Petrozzo, "What We Leave Behind: Trace DNA in Forensic Contexts"
10:30am-11am
Break
11am-12pm
Alison McConwell, "Expanding Evolution’s Social Jurisdiction: Two Examples"
12pm-1:30pm
Catered lunch and discussion: Feminist Biology at UW
Anne Pringle, L&S Mary Herman Rubinstein and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Botany
Leigh Senderowicz, Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and OB/GYN
1:30pm-2pm
Sydney Doering, "Experiments as Models: Agents and Context in Biology"
2-2:30 pm
Caleb Hazelwood, "Scientific Representation in Suriname: Interpreting the Illustrations of Maria Sibylla Merian as Ecological Models"
3-3:30pm
Break and set up posters
3:30pm-5:30pm
Poster session
5:30pm on
Free time/dinner
Friday, August 14
9:30-10am
Jorge Ramos, "Practice-Grounded Metaphysics of Biology"
10-11am
Matthew Barker, "How Empirically Tractable are Debates about the Natures of Biological Categories?"
11-11:30am
Break
11:30am-12pm
Matthew Coates, "Cooperating with Friends"
12pm-12:30pm
Rory Smead and Chris Reidl, "Structure and strategy: how the games we play influence our interaction networks"
12:30pm-2pm
Catered lunch and professional development roundtables:
Matt Haber: Phil Bio Labs
Roberta Millstein: Publishing in Phil Bio
Alan Love: Postdocs
Mike Dietrich: TBD
2-2:30pm
Hannah Allen, "Creating Racial Drug Disparities: Cumulative Advantage and Pharmacogenetics"
2:30-3pm
Jacob Neal and Nicolae Morar, "Nothing but Causal Veneer: A Critique of Gut Microbiome Causation in Anorexia Nervosa"
3pm-3:30pm
Break
3:30pm-5:30pm
Keynote: Rose Novick, “Is a New and General Theory of Evolution Emerging?”
5:30pm on
Free time/dinner
Saturday, August 15
Field trip: Tour of Aldo Leopold Nature Center at 1pm
Optional bike ride and/or visit to Olbrich Botanical Gardens, details TBD