University of Birmingham School of Medicine [Founded 1825] 
CENTRE FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE, DIVISION OF IMMUNITY AND INFECTION 

DARWIN DAY 2006: A BIRTHDAY SYMPOSIUM TO CELEBRATE THE WORK AND INFLUENCE OF CHARLES DARWIN 

Birmingham Medical Institute 
36 Harborne Road 
Birmingham B15 3AF 
Friday, 10 February 2006 
09.00 - 17.00 hours 

Symposium Organisers: 
Professor Mark Pallen, Robert Arnott 
Division of Immunity and Infection Centre for the History of Medicine 
The Medical School University of Birmingham 
Birmingham B15 2TT 

Telephone: 0121-414 7163 Telephone 0121-414 6804 
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This birthday symposium is being held as part of the 
International Darwin Day Programme (see http://www.darwinday.org)

PROGRAMME 
08.45-19.10 Arrival and Coffee 
09.10-09.15 Welcome 
Session 1: Darwin and the Humanities 
Chairman: Professor Mark Pallen (Division of Immunity and Infection) 
09.15 - 10.00 Keynote Speaker: Dr Nick Matze (NCSE, USA) 
News from the Panda Tria in Dover, Pennsylvania: 
       The Evolutionary Origin of Intelligent Design 
10.00 - 10.30 Dr John van Wyhe (University of Cambridge) 
       Where did Darwin's finches come from? 
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee 
11.00 - 11.30 Dr David Toke (Department of Sociology) 
Wind farms, GM and Darwin: politica and public perceptions 
11.30 - 12.00 Dr Barbara Bordelejo (ITSEE) 
       E-Origin: a digital genetic version of Origin of Species 
12.00 - 12.30 Dr Thorsten Schnier (School of Computer Science) 
       Evolutionary Art 
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
Session 2: Darwin and Science 
Chairman: Robert Arnott (Centre for the History of Medicine) 
13.30 - 14.00 Dr Peter Rock (School of Dentistry) 
       The evolving shape of the human face 
14.00 - 14.30 Dr Colin Rowat (Department of Economics) 
       The evolution of evolutionary game theory 
14.30 - 15.00 Dr Susannah Thorpe (School of Biosciences) 
       Walking the walk: the evolution of human bipedalism 
15.00 -15.30 Coffee 
15.30 - 16.00 Dr Jason Hilton (GEES) 
       Coral reefs as documents of evolutionary history 
16.00 - 16.30 Dr Yenory Morales Chaves (GEES) 
       The Zebra mussel ecology of an invasive species 
16.30 - 17.00 Dr Peter Balfe (Immunity & Infection, University of Birmingham) Molecular evolution of hepatitis C 
17.00-18.30 Wine Reception, including: The Origin of the Species in Dub: Live and re-mixed by the Genomic Dub Collective. Further musical 
celebration of Darwin's masterpiece, realized through the medium of 
reggae music
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Centre for the History of Medicine, The Medical School, 
University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT by 31 JANUARY 2006 at the latest. 

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