I'd love to attend but it's a just small workshop designed to encourage dialogue between scientists and philosophers who are interested in the topic. Here's a list of the speakers ...
- Ryan Gregory: Junk DNA, genome size, and the onion test.
- Stefan Linquist: Four decades debating junk DNA and the Phenotype Paradigm is (somehow) alive and well.
- Chris Ponting: 92.9% of the human genome evolved neutrally.
- Paul Griffiths: Both adaptation and adaptivity are relevant to diagnosing function.
- Ford Doolittle: Selfish genes and selfish DNA: is there a difference?
- Justin Garson: Biological functions, the liberality problem, and transposable elements.
- Joyce Havstad: Evolutionary Thinking about Critique of Function Talk.
- Guillame Bourque: Impact of transposable elements on human gene regulatory networks.
- Ulrich Stegman: On parity, genetic causation and coding.
- Steven Downes: Understanding non-coding variants as disease risk alleles.
- Alexander Palazzo: How nuclear retention and cytoplasmic export of RNAs reduces the deleteriousness of junk DNA.
- David Haig: Pax somatica
- Cedric Feschotte: Transposable elements as catalysts of genome evolution.