Darwin Lectures

To celebrate 150 years since the publication of “The origin of species.” Elite scientists in the field of evolutionary biology will contribute a series of lectures. These lectures are scheduled monthly at 10:20 AM on Fridays. The Life Science Auditorium is located on the 3rd floor of Life Science Building. Besides the public lectures, all speakers will also spend time mingling with faculty and students.

Invited speakers in the second half year

9/25（Fri）10:30 - 12:00
Catherine Montchamp-Moreau
Laboratoire Evolution, Genomes and Speciation, CNRS

Non-mendelian segregation of sex-chromosomes
and evolutionary consequences: the Drosophila story

Note: The speech would be given at 3A classroom, Life Science Building

11/13（Fri）10:30 - 12:00
Takashi Gojobori
Vice-Director of NIG &
Professor at Center for Information Biology and DDBJ, Japan

Evolution of Camera Eye from the viewpoint of Comparative Gene Expressionics

Note: Another speech would be given on 11/12 13:20 at
Science Building B1 Auditodium, NCKU

12/11（Fri）10:30 - 12:00
Harmit Malik
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle

Does intragenomic conflict at centromeres provide
a molecular basis to address Darwin's conundrum?

12/18（Fri）10:30 - 12:00
Andrew Clark
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics,
Cornell University

Evolution of the Drosophila Y chromosome