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TERCENTENARY ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION LINNAEUS SYMPOSIUM
Monday, May 14, 2007
At the Countway Library of Medicine 10 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA 5th
Floor
PROGRAM: Centered around evolving notions of taxonomy, medical and
otherwise, from Linnaeus' time to present
1:00 pm Karen Reeds, Ph.D. Guest Curator, Linnaeus & America,
American Swedish Historical Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Carolus Linnaeus, M. D., The Naturalist as Physician
2:00 pm Atul Butte, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Stanford
University School of Medicine Director, Center for Pediatric
Bioinformatics. Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, San Jose, CA
Taxonomizing Diseases: Exploring Genomic Nosologies Using
Translational Bioinformatics
3:00 pm Break
3:20 pm James Hendler, Ph.D. Tetherless World Constellation Chair,
Computer Science Department Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy,
NY
Taxonomy, vocabulary and ontology: Linnaeus and the World Wide Web
A Reception will follow the symposium
(Currently the lecture will be held in the Ballard Auditorium, 5th
floor of Countway and the reception in the Lahey Room also on the 5th
floor.)
For more information:
"Podolsky, Scott H.,M.D." <[log in to unmask]>
"Roz Vogel" <[log in to unmask]>
Countway Administration
10 Shattuck Street
Boston, MA 02115
tel 617-432-4807
fax 617-432-0693
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Karen Reeds, PhD, FLS [log in to unmask] 609--279-9420
Guest Curator
Come into a New World: Linnaeus & America
Exhibition, February 15-July 1, 2007
American Swedish Historical Museum, Philadelphia 215--389-1776
http://www.americanswedish.org/
http://www.americanswedish.org/linnaeus.htm
Join us for Linnaeus Day at ASHM, Sunday May 6, 12-4. Free Parking!
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