Invited speakers

Jordi Bascompte is Professor of Research at the Doñana Biological Station (CSIC). He has had long lasting stays in the University of California at Irvine and Santa Barbara. Recently, he received the EURYI prize from the European Science Foundation and the George Mercer prize from the Ecological Society of America. He is a member of Faculty of 1000 Biology.
 

John N. Thompson is Professor at the Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California at Santa Cruz, and director of the STEPS  Institute for Innovation in Environmental Research. He is a member of the AAAS and AIBS, and president of the American Society of Naturalists. He is included in the ISISM  “highly cited” list of researchers in the fields of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. He is the sole author of the influential books “Interaction and Coevolution” (1982), “The Coevolutionary Process” (1994) and “The Geographic Mosaic of Coevolution” (2005).
 

Miguel Verdú is Permanent Researcher at the Centre of Research on Desertification (CIDE, CSIC) at Valencia, where he is responsible for the Dept. of Plant Ecology. He has published about 50 papers in high impact Journals in ecology and evolutionary biology. His studies on the evolution of plant mating systems and the role of phylogeny on biotic interactions have had an important impact in the field.
 

Douglas J. Futuyma is “Distinguished” Professor at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. Apart from a long and highly influential list of sound papers published in prestigious journals, he is author of widely known and reputed books for teaching and popularizing evolution: Evolutionary Biology (1998, 3rd. ed.) and Evolution (2005). ence on Trial: the Case for Evolution (1995, 2nd ed). He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA).
 

David Posada is Associate Professor of Genetics at the University of Vigo. Soon after his PhD at the Brigham Young University (USA), he had postdoctoral leaves at Oxford and Boston, coming back to Spain through the “Ramón y Cajal” programme. He has published of about 80 papers on genetics and evolution and has developed widely used software.
 

Michael J. Donoghue is “G. Evelyn Hutchinson” Professor at Yale University (USA) and director of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) and has published about 200 papers on plant diversity, systematics and phylogeny. He has been the leader of many projects on the phylogeny of different groups of plants, which has conferred him a vast knowledge on plant diversity. He is strongly involved in “The Tree of Life” project.
 

José L. Sanz is Professor of Palaeontology at the Autonomous University of Madrid and member of the Royal Academy of Sciences (Spain). He has published more than 100 papers on dinosaur evolution, in particular on its relationship with bird evolution. He is strongly involved in the popularization of science with a literary yet rigorous approach, as demonstrated in his books Mitología de los Dinosaurios (1999) and Cazadores de Dragones: historia del descubrimiento e investigación de los dinosaurios (2007).
 

Else M. Friis is Professor and director of the Dept. of Palaeobotany of the Swedish Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet). She has published more than 100 highly cited papers on the early diversification and evolution of flowering plants. She is considered a world authority on these topics.
 

Thomas R. Meagher is professor at the School of Biology on the University of St Andrews (Scotland). In addition to a well known specialist on plant evolutionary biology, he is interested on popular diffusion of science and evolution. He is also very involved in the development of teaching of evolution at the university level. He is a member of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC, UK).

Juan Núñez Farfán is top level permanent researcher at the Institute of Ecology of the National Autonomous University of México (UNAM), where he is coordinator of postgraduate programme of Biological Sciences, granted as highest level in México. He has published many papers on evolutionary ecology, particularly on the interaction between plants and herbivores. He also has a long standing interest in teaching and popularizing evolution has shown in his textbook La Evolución Biológica (1999).
 

Fernando González Candelas is Professor of Genetics at the University of Valencia and coordinator of the postgraduate program “Biodiversity: conservation and evolution”, a pioneer master degree in this topic in Spain. He is a specialist in evolutionary molecular genetics, evolutionary epidemiology and conservation genetics, being author of a large number of papers in the most prestigious journals.
 

Encarnación Aguilar is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Seville, where she is principal investigator of the research group “ethnological patrimony, socio-economical resources and symbolism” (PERSES). She is a specialist in economic anthropology and rural societies and has leaded several research projects, with results published in about 60 papers. She is in charge of a parallel exhibition on Darwinism in Seville.

Exhibition: Antonio Machado y Núñez and the darwinists in Seville

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