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Thursday, July 14, 2011

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9:00 am - 10:30 am

Beyond the Gene: Understanding Proteins and Viruses

9 am - 10:30 am
Room: Lambs Canyon (HSEB 3515c)
Joyce Havstad - The Classification of Proteins
University of California San Deigo
Sandra Mitchell - Multi-level Perspective on Protein Folding Behavior
University of Pittsburgh
Steven Lawrie - Understanding Molecular Virology: A 'Questions and Methods' Based Approach
Indiana University

Keywords = Late 20th Century, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Genetics, Microbial

Visions of Nature: The Tension between Philosophy, Science, Technology and Society

9 am - 10:30 am
Room: Emigration Canyon (HSEB 2958)
Sanne van der Hout - Towards a Sustainable Future: The Potential of Biomimicry
Radboud University Nijmegen
Alex Savory-Levine - Man is the Redeemer of Nature Florida State University
Zoe Nyssa - Studying Biodiversity or Saving It? Lurking Inconsistencies and the Demarcation of Science in Conservation Biology
University of Chicago

Themes = Civic Engagement, Policy, Sustainability
Keywords = Ecology, Systematics, Behavior, Late 20th Century, Scientific Revolution, Genomics
Sponsors = Environmental Humanities

Continuities of Nature and Origins of Life

9 am - 10:30 am
Room: City Creek Canyon (HSEB 2948)
Senji Tanaka - Organism Concepts and How to Deal with the Continuities of Nature
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Naftali Weinberger - The Alleged Predictive Incompatibility of Genic and Genotypic Selection Models
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Eric Martin - Continuity in Evolution and Origins of Life
London School of Economics

Keywords = Organismal, Microbial, Population Genetics, Evolutionary Theory, 19th Century, Late 20th Century
Sponsors = Environmental Humanities, Asia Center, Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities, Tanner Humanities Center, College of Humanities

Examining the Boundaries of Biological Objects

9 am - 10:30 am
Room: Mill Creek Canyon (HSEB 2938)
Andrew Yang - Seeing Cellularity: Making Sense of Cell Imagery in Practice and Pedagogy
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Corinne Bloch - Catching the Virus Concept
Tel Aviv University
Monika Piotrowska - Improving Extrapolation with Humanized Mice
University of Utah

Themes = Education
Keywords = Microbial, Early 20th Century, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Genetics, Neurobiology, Development, Organismal
Sponsors = Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities, Tanner Humanities Center, College of Humanities

The Cognitive Mind: Biology and the Extended Mind

9 am - 10:30 am
Room: Parleys Canyon (HSEB 2110)
William A. Rottschaefer - Extending the Extended Mind: The Phenomenon of WE-ness
Lewis and Clark College
Robert Rupert - Extended Cognition, Extended Selection, and Developmental Systems Theory
University of Colorado, Boulder
Elijah Millgram - Outsourcing the Mind: Extended Cognition and First-Person Authority
University of Utah
Karola Stotz - Commentary
University of Sydney
Organizer: William A. Rottschaefer

Keywords = Evolutionary Theory, Cultural Evolution, Development, Organismal, Extended Mind
Sponsors = Environmental Humanities, Brain Institute, Tanner Humanities Center, College of Humanities, Department of Anthropology

Is Mechanistic Explanation Enough? The Scope and Limits of the 'New Mechanism'

9 am - 10:30 am
Room: Bell Canyon (HSEB 1730)
Lenny Moss - Is a Biology of Mechanism, Biology Enough?
University of Exeter
Justin Garson - The Limits of the 'New Mechanism': Purpose, Mechanism, and History in Biological Explanation
University of Utah/Hunter College
Carl F. Craver - Functions and Mechanisms: A Perspectivalist View
Washington University, St Louis
Stuart A. Newman- Commentary
New York Medical College
Organizer: Justin Garson

Keywords = Molecular and Cellular Biology, Neurobiology, Organismal, Evolutionary Theory
Sponsors = Brain Institute, College of Humanities, College of Humanities

Cells in Search of Community I: Cell Communication and Signaling

9 am - 10:30 am
Room: Neffs Canyon (HSEB 1700)
Brian K. Hall - Cellular Condensation as a Key Process in Embryonic Development and Growth
Dalhousie University
Matthew Slater - Hi, I’m a fibroblast
Bucknell University
Andrew S. Reynolds - Towards a History of the ‘Sociological’ Approach in Cell and Molecular Biology
Cape Breton University
Organizers: Andrew Reynolds & Hannah Landecker

Themes = Evo-Devo, Education
Keywords = Late 20th Century, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Development
Sponsors = Environmental Humanities, Brain Institute, Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities

Function Concepts and Adaptationism

9 am - 10:30 am
Room: King’s Peak (Medical School classroom A)
Cristian Saborido - Systemic-Normative Functions: Organizational Closure and Contribution to the Self-Maintenance
University of the Basque Country
Stefan Linquist - Function Talk in Transposon Biology
University of Guelph
Yasha Rohwer - What is the Environmental Complexity Thesis?
University of Missouri

Keywords = Genetics, Function, Transposable Elements, Evolutionary Theory, Ecology, Godfrey-Smith, Adaptationism, Cognition, Explanation, Organismal, Late 20th Century, Systematics
Sponsors = Division of Medical Ethics, Tanner Humanities Center, College of Humanities

11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Method to the Madness: Producing Order in Linnean Taxonomy, Evolutionary Paleontology, and Population Ecology

11 am - 12:30 pm
Room: Lambs Canyon (HSEB 3515c)
Bradley Wilson - From Laws to Models and Mechanisms: Ecology in the 20th Century
Slippery Rock University
Miranda Paton - Henry Fairfield Osborn and the Origin of Theoretical Population Genetics
Yale University
Martin Earl - Linnaeus Reconsidered
Indiana University
Fritz Davis - Chair
Florida State University

Themes = Evo-Devo
Keywords = 18th Century, Medieval, Early 20th Century, Evolutionary Theory, Populaton Genetics, Ecology, Paleontology, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Mendelian Genetics
Sponsors = Utah Museum of Natural History, Tanner Humanities Center, College of Humanities

Legacy and Mechanism in Metaphysics

11 am - 12:30 pm
Room: Emigration Canyon (HSEB 2958)
Richard Gawne - Rethinking the Legacy of J.H. Woodger and the History of Twentieth-Century Philosophy of Biology
University of Cambridge
Joshua Filler - Creeping Carnapian Conventionalism: Three Carnapian Challenges to Biological Metaphysics
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Kari Theurer - Seventeenth-Century Mechanism: An Alternative Framework for Reductionism
Indiana University, Bloomington

Keywords = Evolutionary Theory, Population Genetics, Early 20th Century, Late 20th Century, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Neurobiology

Categories, Conventions, and Contingencies: Biological Kinds

11 am - 12:30 pm
Room: City Creek Canyon (HSEB 2948)
Gal Kober - Contingency, Prediction, and Digital Organisms
Tufts University
Glenn Adelson - Species are Like Individuals; Species are Like Classes
Lake Forest College
Sara Weaver - Essentialism in Feminism and Philosophy of Biology
University of Alberta

Themes = Race, Gender, Evo-Devo
Keywords = David Hull, Evolutionary Theory, Systematics, Organismal
Sponsors = Gender Studies, Enironmental Humanities, Tanner Humanities Center, College of Humanities, Utah Museum of Natural History

History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology: Issues and Contexts in Education

2 pm - 4 pm
Room: Mill Creek Canyon (HSEB 2938)
Ageliki Lefkaditou - The Nature of Science and Scientific Inquiry from an Ecological Perspective
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Peter Taylor - 'This Course Provides a Structure for Me to Look into What Really Interests Me'
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Maria Strecht Almeida - Thinking about the Life Sciences – Science, Scientific Training and Issues of Science and Society
Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Universidade do Porto
Organizer: Maria Strecht Almeida

Themes = Education
Sponsors = Environmental Humanities

Biology as Public Culture

11 am - 12:30 pm
Room: Parleys Canyon (HSEB 2110)
Jim Endersby - Mutant Utopias
University of Sussex
Samantha Muka - Ida M. Mellen and the New York Aquarium
University of Pennsylvania
Audra J. Wolfe - The Public Biologist
Independent Scholar
Organizer: Jim Endersby

Themes = Civic Engagement
Keywords = Early 20th Century, Evolutionary Theory, Organismal
Sponsors = Utah Museum of Natural History, Gender Studies

Aspects of Sexual Selection

11 am - 12:30 pm
Room: Bell Canyon (HSEB 1730)
Roberta Millstein - Darwin's Explanation of Races by Means of Sexual Selection
University of California, Davis
Andrew Inkpen - Sexual Selection and the Status of Anthropomorphism
University of British Columbia
Michael Ghiselin - Aspects of the Theory of Sexual Selection
California Academy of Sciences
Organizer: Chris Haufe

Themes = Gender
Keywords = Population Genetics, Evolutionary Theory, Behavior
Sponsors = Environmental Humanities, Gender Studies, Department of Anthropology

Interpreting Cell Signals II: Cell Communication and Signaling

11 am - 12:30 pm
Room: Neffs Canyon (HSEB 1700)
Scott Gilbert - Interpreting Signals During Development: Integrating the External and the Internal Milieux
Swarthmore College
Karl Matlin - The Signal Hypothesis and an Approach to Cell Biological Investigation
University of Chicago
Hannah Landecker -Hormones and Metabolic Regulation, circa 1969
University of California, Los Angeles
Organizers: Andrew Reynolds & Hannah Landecker

Themes = Evo-Devo, Education
Keywords = Late 20th Century, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Development
Sponsors = Environmental Humanities, Brain Institute, Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities

Biology and Prosocial Behavior

11 am - 12:30 pm
Room: King’s Peak (Medical School classroom A)
Daniel McKaugha - Voles, Vasopressin, and Infidelity: A Molecular Basis for Monogamy?
Boston College
Clifford Sosis - Heritability and Hedonism
Florida State University
Mariam Thalos - Altruism, Selfishness, and So Much In-Between
University of Utah

Themes = Genetic Testing, Policy, Race, Gender
Keywords = Neurobiology, Behavior, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Population Genetics, Genomics, Development
Sponsors = Tanner Humanities Center, College of Humanities, Brain Institute, Department of Anthropology, Asia Center, Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities, Gender Studies

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Robustness and Representation

2 pm - 4 pm
Room: Lambs Canyon (HSEB 3515c)
Vadim Keyser - The Measurement Problem of Turtle Mechanics
University of California, Davis
Nina Atanasova - Explanations, Models, and Simulations in Neuroscience
Spencer Hey - Lexicon of Invariance
University of Western Ontario
James Justus - Inferential Robustness in Ecological Modeling
Florida State University

Themes = Policy
Keywords = Neurobiology, Ecology, Evolutionary Theory, Development
Sponsors = Brain Institute, Environmental Humanities

Directions for the Philosophy of Biology

2 pm - 4 pm
Room: Emigration Canyon (HSEB 2958)
Constantinos Mekios -A Revised Agenda for the Philosophy of Biology in the Era of a New Biological Holism
Stonehill College
Carlos Mariscal - What Universal Biology Should Be
Duke University
Marion Blute - The Reinvention of Grand Theories of Science/Scholarship
University of Toronto at Mississauga
Dan Brooks - Neuroscience and Biology: Two Disciplines, One (Pluralistic) World
Bielefeld University

Keywords = Late 20th Century, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Neurobiology, Cultural Evolution, David Hull, Evolutionary Theory, Scientific Revolution, Behavior
Sponsors = Brain Institute, Asia Center, Environmental Humanities, Tanner Humanities Center, College of Humanities, Utah Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology

Contingent Upon: New Views of Biology as a Historical Science

2 pm - 4 pm
Room: City Creek Canyon (HSEB 2948)
David M. McCandlish - Contextual Distinguishability: A Tool for Understanding Biological History
Duke University
Kriti Sharma - One Thing Changing?: Contingentism as an Alternative to Essentialism in Biological Accounts
Duke University
Susan Oyama - Sustainable Development
City University of New York
Lauren W. McCall - Group Physiology or Group Selection?
American Museum of Natural History
Organizer: Lauren McCall

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

Natural Selection, Optimization and Organization

2 pm - 4 pm
Room: Mill Creek Canyon (HSEB 2938)
Johannes Martens - Direct Fitness vs. Inclusive Fitness: A Defense of Orthodoxy
IHPST, Sorbonne University
Jean Gayon - Population Genetics, Economic Theory, and Eugenics in R. A. Fisher
University of Paris
Philippe Huneman - Adaptation, Optimization, and Evolutionary Transitions
CNRS
Elias Khalil - Does Rationality Evolve? Charles Darwin Meets Amoeba economicus
Monash University
Organizer: Johannes Martens

Keywords = Evolutionary Theory, Behavior, Population Genetics, Early 20th Century, Late 20th Century, Organismal

The Genomic Turn

2 pm - 4 pm
Room: Parleys Canyon (HSEB 2110)
Sarah S. Richardson - What is Postgenomics?
Harvard University
John Dupré - Genomes as Information vs. Genomes as Matter
University of Exeter
Hallam Stevens - Dr. Sanger, Meet Mr. Moore: Next Generation Sequencing and its Consequences
Harvard University
Joan Fujimura - Confounded Categories
Michael Dietrich - Session Chair
Dartmouth College
Organizer: Sarah Richardson

Themes = Genetic Testing, Gender, Race
Keywords = Genomics
Sponsors = Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities, Department of Anthropology, Gender Studies

Talking About the Simian Tongue

2 pm - 4 pm
Room: : Bell Canyon (HSEB 1730)
Mark Borello
University of Minnesota
Paul Griffiths
University of Sydney
Whitney E. Laemmli
Department of History and Sociology of Science
University of Pennsylvania
Georgina Montgomery
Michigan State University
Drew Rendall
Michigan State University
Greg Radick
University of Leeds
Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis, Organizer, Chair, and Commentator
University of Florida
Organizer: Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis

Keywords = Development, Cultural Evolution
Sponsors = Utah Museum of Natural History, Environmental Humanities, Brain Institute, College of Humanities, Department of Anthropology

Information and the Cell III: Cell Communication and Signaling

2 pm - 4 pm
Room: Neffs Canyon (HSEB 1700)
Barton Moffatt and C. Ken Waters - Signal, Function, and Pluralism
Mississippi State University
University of Minnesota
Beckett Sterner - Biological Information Helps Justify and Explain How Mechanisms Realize Function
University of Chicago
Christina Brandt - Cell Memory and Cell Signaling: Research on ‘developmental programs’ and ‘reprogramming’ Since the Late 1960s
Ruhr University Bochum
Organizers: Andrew Reynolds & Hannah Landecker

Themes = Evo-Devo, Education
Keywords = Late 20th Century, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Development
Sponsors = Environmental Humanities, Brain Institute, Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Biohumanities Public Forum: Evolution, Gender, and Sexuality

Salt Lake City Downtown Library
Thursday, July 14, 2011, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
For more information, please click here for the website.