“From RNA to Humans: A Symposium on Evolution” will be held May 1 and 2 on the Rockefeller University campus. Experts from institutions across the world will speak on subjects from the RNA world hypothesis to the development of eukaryotes to the evolution of humans. The speakers are:May 1
Session 1: Archaean Chemistry and Earliest Fossils
- Gerald F. Joyce, The Scripps Research Institute
- Jack W. Szostak, Harvard Medical School
- Russell F. Doolittle, University of California, San Diego
- Roger Buick, University of Washington
- Andrew H. Knoll, Harvard University
Session 2: Cells, Cellular Evolution and Protein History
- Thomas Cavalier-Smith, University of Oxford
- Eugene V. Koonin, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health
- W. Ford Doolittle, Dalhousie University
- Phillip A. Sharp, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
May 1 Evening Lecture
- Jerry A. Coyne, The University of Chicago
May 2
Session 3: Development of Eukaryotic Genetic Capacity and Multicellularity
- Andrew Roger, Dalhousie University
- David Penny, Massey University
- Peter W.H. Holland, University of Oxford
- Ulrich Technau, University of Vienna
Session 4: Human Evolution through the Lens of DNA Sequences
- L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Stanford University School of Medicine
- Katherine S. Pollard, University of California, Davis
- Bruce T. Lahn, The University of Chicago
- Svante Pääbo, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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