SATURDAY, MARCH 11 presentations and speakers 100 Genetics and Plant Biology Building, UC Berkeley
	Prominent scientists discussed various aspects of evolution. Can Life Be Synthesized in the Laboratory? or, Igor, Please Pass the RNA! DAVID W. DEAMER, UC Santa Cruz The Hunt for Our Most Ancient Ancestors in Stinky Berkeley Mud SCOTT DAWSON, UC Berkeley The First Animals JERE H. LIPPS, UC Berkeley Extinctions: Forest fires Among the Trees of Life RICHARD COWEN, UC Davis
	Plants and Their Predators Through Time BRUCE H. TIFFNEY, UC Santa Barbara Organizing Organisms: Making Sense of Evolution Using Systematics SANDRA CARLSON, UC Davis
	Special presentations Human Evolution: A view from Africa TIM WHITE, UC Berkeley Creating a Curriculum in Evolution KEVIN PADIAN, UCMP
	Panel discussion Reception at the T. rex
SUNDAY, MARCH 12 presentations and speakers 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building, UC Berkeley
	Conversations about evolution – a discussion with scientists NAN CRYSTAL ARENS, DAVID R. LINDBERG and BRUCE H. TIFFNEY
	Hands-on activities for teaching evolution in the classroom (grades 5-12) Keynote address Teaching Conceptions Instead of Misconceptions KEVIN PADIAN, UCMP More hands-on activities for teaching evolution in the classroom (grades 5-12)