CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY STUDIES

Indian Instiute of Science, Bangalore

Invites you to a Seminar on


Integrating Society into Science - Perspectives from Biology


Faculty Hall, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Friday, October 13, 2006

PROGRAM

9:00 a.m - 9:30 a.m.

Inauguration
Raghavendra Gadagkar
, CCS, IISc, Bangalore
Branco Weiss, Society in Science, ETH, Zurich
Olaf Kuebler, Society in Science, ETH, Zurich
P. Balaram, Director, IISc, Bangalore


SESSION 1

9:30 a.m - 10:15 a.m.

Can't see the Forest or the Trees! How Societal Lenses impact Pixellated Views of the World
Harini Nagendra

Asia Research Coordinator, Center for the Study of Institutions,
Population, and Environment, Indiana University

10:15 a.m. – 11:00 a.m

The Evolution of Cooperation: Are Humans Unique?
Dominic Johnson

Princeton University, USA

11:00 a.m. –11:30 a.m COFFEE BREAK

SESSION 2

11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m

Centrality and roles in interaction networks
Ferenc Jordán

Collegium Budapest, Hungary

12:15 p.m – 1:00 p.m

Studying the evolution of knowledge - An analysis of temporal patterns of gene names in scientific publications"
Thomas Pfeiffer

Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University, USA


1 :00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m


LUNCH

SESSION 3

2:00 p.m – 2:45 p.m

Challenging the structure of science communication. Which role for ethics?
Matias Pasquali

University of Minnesota, USA

2:45 p.m – 3:30 p.m

Neuroculture: are neuroscience and behavioural genomics reshaping who we are?
Giovanni Frazzetto

European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Italy


3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m

COFFEE BREAK

SESSION 4

4:00 p.m – 4:45 p.m

Diagnostic insufficiency: a roadblock to antimicrobial resistance containment
Iruka Okeke

Haverford College, USA


4:45 p.m – 5:30 p.m

Epigenetics: reshaping cell fates and linages fromt he lab to the public sphere
Giuseppe Testa
European Institute of Oncology, Italy

 

 

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