Program
10.15-11.00: Hybridization and the nature of species. Darwin was right: speciation is easy!
James Mallet
Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, UK
11.00-11.45: Evolution in Darwin's Dreamponds: The explosive radiation of cichlid fishes in the East African Great Lakes
Walter Salzburger
Zoological Institute, University of Basel, Switzerland
11.45-12.30: Break
12.30-13.15: Studying Sympatric Speciation in Bacteria by Sequencing Populations of Genomes
Eric Alm
MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
13.15-14.00: The nature of species and speciation: evidence from macroevolutionary patterns in the fossil record
Elisabeth Vrba
Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, USA