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SSB Symposia Fairbanks, 2005
Symposium 1) The missing piece of the evolution-education puzzle: Teaching phylogenetics at introductory undergraduate and precollege levels, organized by David A. Baum and Samuel S. Donovan.
- David A. Baum (Professor, Dept. of Botany, Univ. of Wisconsin) "The challenge of teaching tree-thinking: major misconceptions and their remedies"
- Samuel S. Donovan (Asst. Professor, Dept. of Instruction & Learning, Univ. Pittsburgh) "Reading topologies: A study of students' understanding of relationships displayed in trees"
- Susan Offner (Biology Teacher, Lexington High School, MA) "The advantages of using phylogenetic trees in biology teaching"
- Michael J. Donoghue (Professor, Dept. Ecology and Evolution, Yale University) "Using phylogenies as a framework for ecology and biogeography"
- Kirsten Fisher (Graduate student, Dept. Integrative Biology, Univ. of California, Berkeley) "Lessons from the tree of life: the use of language in teaching phylogenetics"
- Jon C. Herron (Lecturer, Dept. of Biology, Univ. of Washington) "Simulation-based tutorials for teaching tree thinking"
- Manda Clair Jost (Post-doc, Section of Integrative Biology, Univ. of Texas) "Using trees to teach biodiversity"
Symposium 2) Genome analysis and molecular systematics of retroelements, organized by Andrew Shedlock.
- Irina R. Arkhipova (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA) "Penelope-like elements in eukaryotes: properties and distribution"
- Mark A. Batzer (Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA) "Mobile elements and primate genomic diversity"
- Jean-Marc Deragon (Universite Blaise Pascal Clermont-Ferrand II, Aubiere Cedex, France) "Evolutionary history of SINE retroposons in plants"
- Thomas H. Eikbush (University of Rochester, Rochester, NY) "The origins and evolution of non-LTR retrotransposons"
- Astrid M. Engel (Tulane University, New Orleans, LA) "Assaulting genomes: retroelements- the usual "LINE"-up and partners in crime"
- Masami Hasegawa (The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo, Japan) "Statistical inference from integrating retroposon insertions with DNA sequences"
- Sandra L. Martin (University of Colorado, Denver, CO) "Reflections in sequence: genomic and phylogenetic approaches to understanding LINE-1 propagation"
- Norihiro Okada (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan) "The SINE method: history, development and future"
- Andrew M. Shedlock (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA) "Exploring the limits to retroposon insertion analysis"
- Arian F. A. Smit, (The Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA) "Genome informatics of interspersed repeats."
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