May 14-15, 2010
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Friday May 14, 2010
8:15 a.m. - Light Breakfast, 102 KGL
8:55 a.m. - Scheduled Talks - “A”, 123 KGL
“Welcoming Remarks” - David Bercovici, Geology and Geophysics, Yale University
“Limits for Life on Earth” - Lynn Rothschild, NASA Ames
“Tracing the History of Eukaryotes in Neoproterozoic Seas” - Phoebe Cohen, Harvard
10:30 a.m. - Coffee/Tea Break, 102 KGL
11:00 a.m. - Scheduled Talks “B”, 123 KGL
“Sulfur Isotope Analyses of Ediacran Chert Nodules: Implications for Microbial Processes in Pyrite Rim Formation, Silicification and Exceptional Fossil Preservations” - Shuhai Xiao, Virginia Tech
“Astrobiology Right Here on Earth: Direct Isotopic Analysis of Microbial Cells from the Subsurface Biosphere” -Christopher House, Penn State
12:30 p.m. - Luncheon, 102 KGL
1:30 p.m. - Scheduled Talks “C”, 123 KGL
“Decoding the Doushantuo Enigma and the Problems of Interpreting the Fossil Record of Early Animal Evolution” - Philip Donoghue Bristol
“Macrostratigraphy and Macroevolution in North America” - Shana Peters, U. Wisconsin, Madison
3:30 p.m. - Coffee/Tea Break, 102 KGL
4:00 p.m. - Scheduled Talks “D”, 123 KGL
“The Fossil Record of the History of Plant Physiology” - Kevin Boyce, Chicago
“Entering the Fourth Dimension of Paleogeography: Using Fossil Floras and Sedimentology to Retrace Paleoenvironments and the Evolution of Paleotopography” - Antoine Bercovici, Rennes
6:30 p.m. - Reception and Dinner, Quinnipiac Club
Saturday, May 15, 2010
8:30 a.m. - Light Breakfast, 102 KGL
8:55 a.m. - Scheduled Talks “E”, 123 KGL
“Extinction, Diversification and Innovation: Assembling the Other Half of the Vertebrate Tree of Life” - Matt Friedmann, Oxford
“Integrating Integration from Development to Deep Time and Why it Matters” - Anjali Goswami, UC London
10:30 a.m. - Coffee/Tea Break, 102 KGL
11:00 a.m. - Scheduled Talks “F”
“Finding the Frameshift Variation, Variability and the Origin of the Vertebrate Hand” - Gabe Bever, Yale University
“Reinvestigating Paleobotanical Temperature Proxies with Phylogenetic Informatoin” - Stefan Little, UC Davis
12:30 p.m. - Luncheon, 102 KGL
1:30 p.m. - Scheduled Talks “E”, 123 KGL
“Influence of Late-Quaternary Climate on the Ecology and Evolution of Mammals” - Elizabeth Hadly, Stanford
Discussion and Wrap Up (no dinner planned for Saturday)