CASW New Horizons schedule

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6Saturday6:30 - 9:00 pmScienceWriters2010 welcome reception
Location: Peabody Museum of Natural History
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7Sunday8:30 amEvo-Devo, with Sean Carroll
Location: Canceled
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8:30 amNEUROLOGY: Diagnosing and treating unremitting depression, with Helen Mayberg
Location: Ballroom
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9:30 amGENOMICS : High-speed pursuit of the genes associated with neuropsychiatric disorders, with Matthew State
Location: Ballroom
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10:30 amCLIMATE CHANGE: Surviving a political attack, and an update on research, with Michael Mann
Location: Ballroom
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12:30 - 2:00 pmLunch with a scientist
Location: Varied; see program on-site.
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2:30 pmMETAGENOMICS: Discoveries in the dirt: Soil metagenomics leads to important findings on antibiotic resistance, with Jo Handelsman
Location: Yale Art Gallery auditorium
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2:30 pmRISK PERCEPTION: Why do people who oppose abortion also tend to doubt climate change? with Dan M. Kahan
Location: Yale Center for British Art auditorium
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3:30 pmCOMPLEXITY: Modeling insurgency: Physicist detects similar patterns in very different wars, with Neil Johnson
Location: Yale Center for British Art auditorium
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3:30 pmCANCER: Overturning cancer dogma: It’s the slowly-dividing cells that matter, with Gil Mor
Location: Yale Art Gallery auditorium
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4:30 pmEVOLUTIONARY PHOTONICS: The optics and nanoscience of blue bird feathers (and butterflies too!)
Location: Yale Center for British Art auditorium
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4:30 pmPRIMATE BEHAVIOR: Why evolution allows us to make bad decisions, with Laurie Santos
Location: Yale Art Gallery auditorium
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8Monday8:30 - 11:30 amSolons of science: A special symposium celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing
Location: Ballroom
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8:30 - 9:30 amFuture Climate/Future Life (Redux)F
9:30 - 10:30 amP4 Medicine: A Newly Emergent Biological ParadigmF
10:30 - 11:30 amCosmology at the EdgeF
1:00 - 5:00 pmTours of Yale University and Yale School of Medicine
Location: Varied; see program for departure points.
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9Tuesday8:30 amCHEMISTRY: Recruiting antibodies to fight disease, with David A. SpiegelF
8:30 amCLINICAL TRIALS: Upending conventional wisdom—and sorting spin from substance, with Harlan M. KrumholzF
9:30 amSTEM CELLS: The dark side of biology: Tiny RNA molecules controlling gene expression, with Haifan LinF
9:30 am OIL SPILL: The role of science in a national crisis: Update on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, with Steven Lohrenz F
10:30 amAUTISM: Early diagnosis and treatment of autism, with Ami KlinF
10:30 amGREEN CHEMISTRY: Chemistry research that can cleanse the environment and encourage responsible corporate behavior, with Julie ZimmermanF