Schedule of Events

8:00 am
Registration

8:30 am
Welcoming Remarks
Marye Anne Fox
Chancellor, North Carolina State University

8:45 am
"The Molecular Clock: Whence and Whither"
Francisco Ayala
University of California at Irvine

9:45 am
Break

10:00 am
"The Earliest History of Life -- Solution to Darwin's Dilemma"
William Schopf
University of California at Los Angeles

11:00 am
"Mouse Solutions to Human Problems"
Oliver Smithies
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

12:00 pm
Lunch

1:30 pm
"Ebola and Marburg viruses: Hemorrhagic Fever Outbreaks and Evolution"
Stuart Nichol
Centers for Disease Control

2:30 pm
Break

2:45 pm
"Molecular population genetics of the Drosophila immune system"
Andrew Clark
Pennsylvania State University

3:45 pm
"Mouse Models for Complex Diseases"
Nobuyo Maeda
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill