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Charles Darwin Week

This year marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his most important work, On the Origin of Species. The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research have joined together to celebrate both events.

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Tuesday, September 15

Evolution, a Matter of Facts

KNAW Symposium 15 September 2009, Theatron, Educatorium Utrecht University

09.30Coffee & Tea
10.00Welcome & Introduction
10.15Bioturbation and the Cambrian Explosion – Jack Middelburg Netherlands Institute of Ecology NIOO-KNAW
11.00Self-organization and Evolution – Paulien Hogeweg, Dpt. of Biology, Theoretical Biology Group, Utrecht University
11.45Bacteria-based Evolutionary Game Theory – Juan Keymer Vargara
Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, TU Delft
12.30Lunch
13.30Directed Evolution in Bacteria – Jack Pronk Kluyver Centre for Genomics of Industrial Fermentation, TU Delft
14.15Origin and Evolution of Eukaryotic Genomes – Eugene Koonin National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health Bethesda
15.00Evolution and Domestication – Dan Bradley Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin
15.45Coffee & Tea
16.15Evolutionary Robotics – Dario Floreano Laboratory of Intelligent Systems Station 11, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
17.00Primate Behavior and Human Evolution – Carel van Schaik Anthropologisches Institut & Museum, Universität Zürich
17.45Drinks