Wednesday, August 12
8:30-9:30 Coffee and snacks
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
8:30-9:30 Coffee and snacks
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
Jan Czarnecki, "Is life inherently agential? Sketch of agency-first theory of life"
Michael Dietrich, "Survival of the Luckiest: Drift and the Terrible Urn Analogy"
Christophe Facal, "Biological Normativity and Enhancement Medicine"
Jacob Hart, "Organisational Dissipative Selection"
Yuning Hu, "Challenging the Explanatory Privilege of Species through Intraspecific Divergence"
Jan Pieter Konsman, "Describing relative stability in biology: A comparison of allostasis, homeostasis and robustness in the life sciences"
Cali Kurlan, "Reframing the Photographic Image: Biological Vision and the Expansion of Print Through Hybrid Imaging"
Tadahiro Oota, "Innovation in Scientific Methodology in Schleiden’s Botany"
Anthony P. Smith, "Precaution and Life: Mirror Life and Knowing When to Avoid the Worst-Potential Outcome"
Matthew Tontonoz, "Investigating the Genetics of Common Diseases in the Early 21st Century: Assumptions, Methods, Outcomes"
Larissa Wilks, "Anthropomorphism and Anthropocentrism in Debates about Biological Agency"
Andrew Zeppa, "Classifying change and changing classifications: ecosystem kinding in an age of climate change"
5:30pm on
Free time/dinner
Friday, August 14
8:30-10a Coffee & snacks
10-11am
Matthew Barker and Matthew H. Slater, "How Empirically Tractable are Debates about the Natures of Biological Categories?"
11-11:30am
Break
11:30am-12pm
Jorge Ramos, "Practice-Grounded Metaphysics of Biology"
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: Mentorship
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
List of suggested locations here
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