Life in Process: Evolution, Diversity and Change

Whitehead Institute Partnership for Science Education
2003-2004 Seminar Series for High School Teachers

Schedule of Seminars

Tuesday, October 7

David Bartel, Whitehead Institute
Evidence for an RNA World

Monday, November 3

Andrew McMahon, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
Hedgehogs on the Wing and Brain
Power Point Presentation

Monday, December 8

David Page, Whitehead Institute
The Evolution of Sex
Power Point Presentation
(Video – High bitrate: 220k Midband bitrate: 80k Low bitrate: 56k)

Monday, January 5

Robert Latek, Whitehead Institute
George Bell, Whitehead Institute
Bioinformatics and the Study of Evolution
Power Point Presentation

Monday, February 2

Mark Daly, Whitehead/Pfizer Computational Biology Fellow
Using the Evolution of Mice to Study Disease
Power Point Presentation

Monday, March 1

David Reich, Whitehead/MIT Center for Genome Research
Population Genetics and Human Disease
Power Point Presentation

Monday, April 12

Susan Lindquist, Whitehead Institute
Proteins and New Mechanisms for Non-Genomic Inheritance
Power Point Presentation

Monday, May 3

Sasha Kamb, Global Head of Oncology Disease, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research
Title: TBA

Monday, June 7

Hazel Sive, Whitehead Institute
Evolution and the Study of Human Development

Last updated November 1, 2004.