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This spring, Westchester Community College will host the ESATYCB Annual Conference at its Valhalla campus, where the perennial issue of scientific literacy will be emphasized. As most of you are aware, the public's understanding of science is consistently less than optimal, even though access to the scientific information base has increased substantially. A simple Internet search (using key words such as vaccines, alternative medicine, evolution, or climate change) can produce as much misinformation as information, which can lead to troubling consequences with respect to societal health and public policy. So please join us in a dialogue with some leading thinkers from the fields of scientific research, public health and science journalism as we discuss some of the most commonly misrepresented scientific topics currently present the public square.
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind04/c7/fig07-06.htm
I encourage you all to plan to attend.
President-elect ESATYCB
SCHEDULE:
(preliminary schedule/subject to change)
| 6:00-8:00 |
Registration and Reception |
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La Quinta |
| 10:00-11:45 |
Session 1: Modeling H1N1 Evolution and Flu Vaccine Production |
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Raul Rabadan, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor, Biomedical Informatics, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons |
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Doris Bucher, Ph.D. - Associate Professor, Microbiology and Immunology - New York Medical College |
| 1:00-2:45 |
Session 2: Science-Based Medicine and Science in the Media |
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Stephen Novella, MD. - Science Blogger and Podcaster - Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology - Yale Medical College |
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Carl Zimmer, MA. - Award-Winning Science Journalist - Lecturer, Yale University - Visiting Scholar, NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute |
| 3:00-4:45 |
Session 3: Experimental Evolution and EvoS |
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Gordon Plague, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor, Evolution and Ecology - Fordham University |
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David Sloan Wilson, Ph.D. - SUNY Distinguished Professor, Biology and Anthropology - Binghamton University |
| 5:00-5:45 |
Executive Committee Meeting |
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La Quinta Banquet Room |
| 6:30-8:30 |
Banquet Lecture (followed by a general membership meeting): The Mannahatta Project |
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Eric Sanderson, Ph.D. - Landscape Ecologist, Author and Principal Investigator of the Mannahatta Project - Wildlife Conservation Society/The Bronx Zoo |
| 7:00-8:00 |
Traditional Bird Walk |
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| 8:00-9:00 |
Breakfast |
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