Inivited Speakers

AMY BODDY

We are multitudes: microchimerism, evolution and human health
​University of California Santa Barbara

PIERRICK BOURRAT

In what sense can there be conflicts between levels of selection? Or, the paradox of the organism in conflict with itself
​Macquarie University

ELLEN CLARKE

Organismal identity: how can organisms change over time without ceasing to exist?
University of Leeds

ISRAT JAHAN

Revisiting Wolpert’s hypothesis on multicellularity and the evolution of egg
Washington University in St. Louis

DAVID HAIG

Pax somatica
Harvard University

SAMIR OKASHA

Conflict within genomes, groups, and persons
​​University of Bristol

LAURA ROSS

Somatic genome elimination: why do many eukaryotes delete parts of their genomes from their soma?
​​University of Edinburgh

MARTIJN SCHENKEL

​Formalizing the paradox of the organism
University of Groningen & Georgetown University

NINA WEDELL

Selfish genetic elements and sexual selection
​​University of Melbourne

ORGANIZERS

ARVID ÅGREN

The Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic

MANUS PATTEN

Georgetown University