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Poster Session, Tuesday, July 12, 2011

The Poster Session is generously supported by the University of Utah Brain Institute. Their support was intrumental in helping us host ISHPSSB's first poster session.

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Poster Session: 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm, Officers' Club

Symbolic Cultural Evolution: Simulating Coherence in Cultural Evolution

Marshall Abrams
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Themes = Education, Evo-Devo, Policy
Keywords = Cultural Evolution, Behavior, Evolutionary Theory, Scientific Revolution
Sponsors = Asia Center, Environmental Humanities, Tanner Humanities Center, Gender Studies, Department of Anthropology

The Biological Struggle against Anopheles and the Expansion of Gambusia in Spain: A Historical-Environmental Study about Health, Environmental Disaster and Repression in Spain in the First Third of the Twentieth Century

Frederico Alvim Carvalho and Jesús Raúl Navarro García
Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla

Sponsors = Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities, Environmental Humanities, Latin American Studies

An Organizational View of Biological Essences

Alba Amilburu
Departamento de Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia- EHU-UPV

Keywords = Systematics, Organismal, Late 20th Century

Simulation vs. Explanations in DST, Evo-Devo, and Medical Research

Nina Atanasova
University of Cincinnati

Themes = Evo-Devo
Keywords = Development, Organismal

Detachment and the Human Genome

Sylvia Blad
University of Amsterdam

Themes = Evo-Devo
Keywords = Development, Evolutionary Theory, Genomics, Cultural Evolution

Historical, Functional and Philosophical Conceptualizations of 'the gene' and Their Implications for Science Education

Chad Campbell
Ohio State University

Themes = Education
Keywords = Genetics

The Role of Cellularization in the Evolutionary Development of Hierarchy in the Kingdom Fungi

David Crawford
Department of Philosophy
Duke University

Themes = Evo-Devo
Keywords = Molecular and Cellular Biology, Evolutionary Theory, Development, Organismal, Ecology
Sponsors = Environmental Humanities, Utah Museum of Natural History

Online Biology Resources Provide Background Information for Science and Society Discussions

Dina Drits and Louisa A. Stark
Genetic Science Learning Center
University of Utah

Themes = Education, Genetic Testing
Keywords = Population Genetics, Genetics, Genomics, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Neurobiology, Ecology, Microbial, Evolutionary Theory
Sponsors = Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities, Utah Museum of Natural History, Brain Institute

Mapping Linnaeus' Philosophia Botanica

Martin Earl
Indiana University

Themes = Education
Keywords = 18th Century, Systematics
Sponsors = Tanner Humanities Center, College of Humanities, Utah Museum of Natural History

What are Ecological Communities?

Christopher Eliot
Hofstra University

Themes = Sustainability, Policy
Keywords = Ecology
Sponsors = Environmental Humanities

Teaching Environmental Ethics in the 21st Century

Susie Fisher
The Open University of Israel

Themes = Education, Sustainability
Sponsors = Environmental Humanities

The Stages of the Early Embryo: Towards a More Adequate Descriptive Framework

Francisco Güell
Institute de Cultura y Sociedad
Universidad de Navarra

Keywords = Development, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Organismal
Sponsors = Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities, Department of Anthropology

Literature's Re-appropriation of Scientific Concepts: A Case Study with the Notion of Inheritance

Gabriela Guerrero
The University of Chicago

Themes = Race
Keywords = 19th Century, Early 20th Century
Sponsors = Tanner Humanities Center

Escalation and Heterogeneity

Benjamin Hardisty
University of Utah

Keywords = Evolutionary Theory, Ecology, Leigh Van Valen, Organismal
Sponsors = Utah Museum of Natural History

Ecological Models of Cognitive Labor in Multiple Dimensions

Kory Johnson
University of Pennsylvania

Keywords = Ecology, Behavior

Gerald Edelman's Model about the Higher-Order Consciousness Evolution Research

Ivonne Kuri

Keywords = Neurobiology
Sponsors = Brain Institute, Department of Anthropology

On the Value of Uncertainty in Phylogenetic Bootstrap Proportions

Lucas Matthews
Department of Philosophy
University of Utah

Keywords = Systematics, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Evolutionary Theory, Genetics, Genomics
Sponsors = Tanner Humanities Center, College of Humanities, Utah Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology

Mechanisms as Evolutionary Characters

Luke McGowan
Neurobiology
UC Irvine

Themes = Evo-Devo
Keywords = Evolutionary Theory, Behavior, Neurobiology, Development, Organismal
Sponsors = Brain Institute

Crucial Features of Epigenetic Information

Elsa Muro

Themes = Genetic Testing
Keywords = Molecular and Cellular Biology, Genetics, Genomics, Development

Socially Relevant Philosophy of Science

Kathryn Plaisance
University of Waterloo
and
Carla Fehr
Iowa State University

Themes = Civic Engagement, Education, Gender, Race, Policy
Sponsors = Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities, Gender Studies

Teleological and Functional Explanations in High School Biology Textbooks

Richard Santos do Carmo, Nei Freitas Nunes-Neto & Charbel Niño El-Hani
Institute of Biology
Federal University of Bahia, Brazil

Themes = Education
Keywords = Late 20th Century
Sponsors = Tanner Humanities Center, Latin American Studies

The One-Dimensional Grandma: Gender Bias in Evolutionary Explanations of Menopause

Laura Seger
History & Philosophy of Science
Indiana University

Themes = Gender, Evo-Devo
Keywords = Evolutionary Theory
Sponsors = Gender Studies, Department of Anthropology

Seeing the Evolutionary Forest from the Trees: Clarifying Cone Snail Phylogentics.

Pat Corneli
Department of Biology
University of Utah

Keywords = Molecular and Cellular Biology, Evolutionary Theory, Genomics
Sponsors = Tanner Humanities Center, College of Humanities, Utah Museum of Natural History

Adaptation and Value

David Suárez Pascal
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Keywords = Teleology, Evolutionary Theory, Adaptation, Value
Sponsors = Environmental Humanities, Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities, Utah Museum of Natural History, Brain Institute

Explaining Biological Phenomena with Idealized Models

Collin Rice and Yasha Rohwer
University of Missouri

Keywords = Evolutionary Theory, Idealization, Explanation, Game Theory, Weisberg, Models

The Structure of Population Genetics

Emanuele Serrelli
University of Milan Bicocca

Keywords = Population Genetics, Evolutionary Theory
Sponsors = Utah Museum of Natural History

Testing the Blades on the 'Double-Edged Sword': A National, Experimental Survey of US Trial Court Judges

James Tabery
Department of Philosophy
University of Utah
and
Teneille Brown
SJ Quinney College of Law
University of Utah

Themes = Genetic Testing, Policy, Race, Education, Civic Engagement
Keywords = Molecular and Cellular Biology, Behavior, Genetics, Genomics, Neurobiology, Development
Sponsors = Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities, Tanner Institute of Humanities, College of Humanities, Utah Museum of Natural History, Brain Institute, Department of Anthropology