Dates and Time: November 11 @ 9:30 am – November 12 @ 3:00 pm
Venue: Merewether Building H04 Lecture room 273 (second floor, lift access)

Registration: No fees, no registration required. Please just turn up on the day  

Background: Evolutionary biologist, Andreas Wagner, is visiting Sydney for six months. This workshop is an opportunity to hear more about his work and to listen to a variety of related talks by researchers in a range of disciplines. Everyone is welcome to attend all or part of this workshop.

Programme:

Wednesday, November 11th
 9.30: Welcome, morning tea
10.00: Andreas Wagner: Fitness landscapes: past, present, and future
11.00: Brett Calcott: A major transition in the generation of variation
12.00: Lunch (provided)
13.30: Sara Green: Personalized models in precision oncology: towards a science of and for the individual
14.30: Rob Lanfear: Do plants evolve differently?
15.30: Afternoon tea
16.00: Maureen O’Malley: The evolution of microbiomes
17.00: Evening plans

Thursday, November 12th
 9.30: Morning tea
10.00: Lindell Bromham: Mutation, evolution & diversity: the changing role of mutation in evolutionary theory
11.00: Peter Godfrey-Smith: Commentaries
12.00: Wrap-up, lunch excursions, 1:1 meetings with Andreas Wagner