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In
June 2007, the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology
and Evolution and the Society for the Study of Evolution
will sponsor the Evolution 2007 conference in Christchurch,
New Zealand.
In conjunction
with the conference, the Centre is working with an
Auckland television and video producer George Andrews,
to produce a documentary/new media project that will
commemorate Allan Wilson's scientific achievements
and enduring influence through the work of his students,
postdocs, and colleagues.
Allan's
scientific insights and contributions have had a profound
and enduring impact on the fields of molecular and
human evolution. The creative and collegial environment
that surrounded him resulted in opening many traditional
biological disciplines (e.g. botany and ornithology)
to molecular analysis as well as initiating or accelerating
progress in others (ancient DNA, molecular ecology).
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George
Andrews has produced a 10-minute pilot Allan
Wilson: Innovator of Science which
you can be viewied by clicking on either
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Most of
all we want the project to tell Allan's story through
the work and recollections of those like David Wake,
Jim Patton, Becky Cann, Svante Paabo, Axel Meyer,
Alan Cooper who appeared in the pilot. The Centre
hopes the project will reflect the extraordinary breadth
of Allan's scientific contributions - from molecular
phylogenies of multiple species, to human evolution,
to understanding mechanisms that underlie the mode
and tempo of organismal evolution.
We want
to create a smart, contemporary, enduring digital
resource that younger generations of biologists can
learn from and that will be linked to ongoing research
in molecular evolution at laboratories around the
world.
We welcome
your ideas and support for this project and hope you
will be able to attend Evolution 2007 to view the
premier of the documentary. |
