Speakers
THURSDAY November 8
Katie Hinde, Ph.D. Associate Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change Center for Evolution and Medicine, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Katie Hinde is an Associate Professor Know About Mother’s Milk” has been in the School of Human Evolution viewed over one million times. Hinde and Social Change, Center for received Early Career Achievement Evolution and Medicine, at Arizona Awards from the American Society of
GENERAL SESSION SPEAKERS GENERAL SESSION State University. As Director of Primatologists and the International the Comparative Lactation Lab, Society for Research in Human Milk she investigates the evolutionary and Lactation and has been recog- For session details, see page 24. ecology and behavioral biology of nized for her public outreach, sus- milk, mothers, and infants. Hinde tainability, and academic activism. earned a B.A. in Anthropology from She showcases research on mother’s the University of Washington in 1999 milk, breastfeeding, and lactation and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from for the general public, clinicians, and UCLA in 2008. In addition to dozens researchers at her blog “Mammals of scholarly publications, Hinde Suck… Milk!” Hinde is also the co-edited “Building Babies: Primate founder, director, and Editor-in-Chief Developmental Trajectories in Ulti- for March Mammal Madness, an mate and Proximate Perspective”, and annual online science celebration Hinde’s TED talk “What We Don’t since 2013.
FRIDAY November 9
Sean M. Carroll, Ph.D. Research Professor of Physics Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics, Caltech, Pasadena, CA
Sean Carroll is a Research Profes- of Time; and the textbook Spacetime sor of theoretical physics at the and Geometry: An Introduction California Institute of Technology. to General Relativity. He has been He received his Ph.D. in 1993 from awarded prizes and fellowships by the Harvard University. His research National Science Foundation, NASA, focuses on fundamental physics the Sloan Foundation, the Packard and cosmology, quantum gravity Foundation, the American Physical For session details, see page 27. and spacetime, and the evolution of Society, the American Institute of entropy and complexity. He is the Physics, the Freedom From Religion author of The Big Picture: On the Foundation, the Royal Society Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Uni- of London, and the Guggenheim verse Itself; The Particle at the End Foundation. He frequently consults of the Universe: How the Hunt for the for film and television, and has been Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of featured on shows such as The Colbert a New World; From Eternity to Here: Report, PBS’s NOVA, and Through the The Quest for the Ultimate Theory Wormhole with Morgan Freeman.
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SATURDAY November 10
Ed Yong The Atlantic Washington, DC
Ed Yong is a science journalist the Public Communication who reports for The Atlantic and is of Life Sciences in 2016, based in Washington DC. His work and the National Academies appears several times a week on The Keck Science Communica- Atlantic’s website, and has also been tion Award in 2010. I Contain SPEAKER GENERAL SESSION featured in National Geographic, Multitudes, his first book, the New Yorker, Wired, Nature, New became a New York Times best- Scientist, Scientific American, and seller and inspired an online film many more. He has won a variety series, an anthology of plays, and a of awards, including the Byron H. clue on Jeopardy!. Ed has a Chatham DISTINGUISHED SERVICE Waksman Award for Excellence in Island black robin named after him. AWARD WINNER
NABT is proud to honor Mr. Ed Yong For session details, see page 61. with the 2018 NABT Distinguished Service Award.
SATURDAY November 10
Kirstie Ruppert Senior Research Coordinator, Community Engagement Institute for Conservation Research, San Diego Zoo Global, Escondido, CA
Kirstie Ruppert works at the research of wildlife conservation, approaches arm of San Diego Zoo Global on the to understand and address FEATURED SPEAKER FEATURED Community Engagement team. In human-wildlife conflicts, and the this position, she conducts social integration of human dimensions research to understand the human information with ecological data to dimensions of conservation issues address complex issues. Kirstie has For session details, see page 63. and to evaluate conservation learning a B.Sc. in Environmental Sciences programs. Her current efforts are from the University of California, concentrated in Kenya, leading social Los Angeles, and a M.A. in Zoology Educational programming support has been science and community outreach from Miami University. She is a Ph.D. provided by for SDZG conservation efforts and candidate at the University of Maine assisting conservation organizations in Human Dimensions of Ecology and in the region with their education Environmental Sciences, studying and evaluation planning. She is illegal wildlife hunting behavior and interested in the cultural relevance poaching as a threat to giraffes.
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FRIDAY November 9 SATURDAY November 10 INVITED SPEAKERS
APS SPONSORED SPEAKER Ron Swaisgood, Ph.D. SCOTT WILLIAMSON Director, Recovery Ecology SPEAKER SERIES Tatum Simonson, Ph.D. Institute for Conservation Research, Assistant Professor, Department of San Diego Zoo Global, Escondido, CA Maria E. Orive, Ph.D. Medicine, School of Medicine Associate Professor, Department of University of California San Diego, Ron Swaisgood serves San Diego Ecology & Evolutionary Biology La Jolla, CA Zoo Global as the Brown Endowed University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS Director of Recovery Ecology. He also Tatum Simonson applies integrative heads the Giant Panda Conservation Maria E. Orive is an associate physiological genomics approaches to Unit and is the General Scientific professor of evolutionary theory understand systems-level responses Director of the Cocha Cashu Biolog- in the Department of Ecology and to low oxygen (hypoxia) in highland ical Station in Manu National Park, Evolutionary Biology at the University populations. Her research provides in the Peruvian Amazon. Ron has a of Kansas. Her research develops evidence for genetic adaptations to bachelor’s degree from the University mathematical models that provide a high altitude and identifies associa- of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and conceptual framework for exploring tions among adaptive genetic factors a Ph.D. in Animal Behavior from important questions in evolutionary and physiological traits. Aside from the University of California, Davis. biology. She has focused on the role her research in the highlands of Tibet His interests lie primarily in the of reproductive strategy in shaping and Peru, her team studies natural pragmatic application of ecological the genetic diversity available for variation in human responses to and behavioral knowledge to solving evolution to act on, and the relative low oxygen and aims to understand conservation problems, and he strength of those evolutionary forces. the contributions of genetic and oversees conservation programs for Maria received her B.S. with epigenetic factors to variation in several diverse species. His research Honors from Stanford University, hypoxia-related disease states (e.g., focuses around themes involving and her Ph.D. from the University sleep apnea, altitude illness, and habitat use and requirements, anthro- of California at Berkeley. She was cardiopulmonary disease). These pogenic threats, translocation biology, awarded an NSF Minority Graduate and related interdisciplinary efforts and conservation breeding. As an Fellowship and was an NSF-NATO are coordinated through the recently advocate for reconnecting society to Postdoctoral Fellow at the University developed Center for Physiological nature, he has served on committees of Edinburgh. During 2007-2008, she Genomics of Low Oxygen (CPGLO) at for the Children & Nature Network, is was the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer UC San Diego. co-President of San Diego Children & Foundation Fellow at the Radcliffe Nature Collaborative, and co-founded Institute for Advanced Study at Family Adventures in Nature in 2009. Harvard University.
Special consideration provided by Bio-Rad.
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