Join us for a Retirement Celebration for Stan Rachootin, to be held before the annual SICB Meeting, Jan 3rd, 2020

1:00pm to ~5:30pm

All are welcome and no registration is necessary.

The Workshop will take place in the conference hotel, JW Marriott Austin

Rooms 303-304, 110 East 2nd Street, Austin Texas

email Dede Lyons (d1lyons@ucsd.edu) with any questions

The upcoming 2020 Meeting in Austin will include a workshop organized by Dede Lyons and Mansi Srivastava in honor of the retirement of Dr. Stan Rachootin, David and Lucy Stewart Professor of Biological Sciences at Mount Holyoke College. Since joining the Mount Holyoke College Faculty in 1984 as an Assistant Professor, Dr. Rachootin has trained a generation of women scientists, with particular emphasis on macro-evolution, EcoEvoDevo (before it had a catchy moniker), and the History of Science. Dr. Rachootin served as mentor for dozens of research projects with an exceptional range, from social behavior in ants to fluctuating asymmetry in fish to historical studies reconstructing 19th century biology. The workshop will feature talks by former students, and we invite the SICB community to join us to celebrate Stan’s legacy of training women in integrative and comparative biology. The workshop begins at 1pm on January 3rd, before the official start of the Annual SICB meeting, so be sure to arrive in Austin early that day to join us.

SCHEDULE:

1:00-1:05: Welcome by Dede and Mansi

1:05-1:25: Sarah Bacon, Professor, Mount Holyoke College

“Bouncing Back:  Tissue Remodeling in the Postpartum Uterus”

1:25-1:45: Kelsey Lewis, Graduate Student, Univ. of Florida

 “Queer feminist biology: where did it come from, where will it go” 

1:45-2:05: Louisa Liberman, Senior Scientist, Novozyme 

“Machine learning for imaging”

2:05-2:25: Deirdre Lyons, Asst Prof, U.C. San Diego

“Logical and Biological in a calcium light: evodevo of biomineralization”

2:25-2:45 Addison Kemp, Postdoc, Duke University

2:45:-3:00: Break

3:00-3:20: Alson Burke, Asst Professor, University of Washington

“#Ilooklikeasurgeon (despite some fluctuating asymmetry)”

3:20-3:40: Gustav Paulay, Curator of Marine Malacology, Florida Museum of Natural History

“Does the Red Queen eat potato chips? Revisited”

3:40-4:00: Mansi Srivastava, Asst Prof, Harvard University

“Regeneration: the gift that keeps on giving”

4:00-4:20: Carrie Albertin, Hibbit Fellow, MBL

4:20-4:30: Rachel Fink, Professor, Mount Holyoke College

Stan Introduction

4:30-4:50: Stan Rachootin

4:50-5:15: Participation from the audience/Closing