Evolution 2009 —  University of Nebraska at Kearney  

12:00 - 6:00 p.m.

6:00 - 10:00 p.m.

8:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m.

8:30 - 9:00 a.m.

Plenary Session One

9:10 - 10:00 a.m.

Michael Kanost, Kansas State University
Evolution of the Innate Immunity in Insects

10:10 - 11:00 a.m.

Nick Matzke, University of California- Berkeley
Evolution of the Immune System

11:00 a.m.

11:30 - 1:15 p.m.

1:30 - 2:20 p.m.

2:30 - 3:20 p.m.

3:30 p.m.

5:00 - 6:00 p.m.

6:00 - 7:30 p.m.

7:30 - 8:30 p.m.

8:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m.

8:30 - 9:00 a.m.

9:00 - 9:50 a.m.

10:00 - 10:50 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

1:00 - 1:15 p.m.

1:15 - 2:05 p.m.

2:15 - 3:05 p.m.

8:30 - 9:00 a.m.

9:00 - 10:00 a.m.

Teaching Evolution: Why & How - Dr. Kerri Farnsworth-Hoback, Department of Biology, University of Nebraska at Kearney

10:10 - 11:10 a.m.

Six Thousand Years or Six Thousand Million Years, How Old Really Is the Earth? A Cosmological Perspective on Evolution. – Dr. David Clark – Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemistry/Physics, University of Nebraska at Kearney

11:20 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.

Release Web Site and Predator/Prey Demonstration – Dr. Wyatt Hoback, Department of Biology, University of Nebraska at Kearney

12:20 - 1:00 p.m.

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.

A Panel Discussion of Common Objections to the Teaching of Evolution – Dr. Brad Ericson, Dr. Dawn Simon, Dr. Marc Albrecht, Dr. Wyatt Hoback, Department of Biology, and Dr. Richard Miller, Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska at Kearney

3:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Workshop adjourns and participants given two books to aid in teaching.  These books are “Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body” by Neil Shubin and “Why Evolution Is True” by Jerry A. Coyne.