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During the 2008-2009 year, 16 CLS affiliated faculty presented brief overviews of their research to the CLS community at our monthly luncheon series. Brief excerpts of their presentations can be found in the documents section of the CLS website.

James Taylor’s office in the Rollins Research Center is clean and minimalist, with no papers cluttering his desk or shelves. “My work is almost completely computerized, and computers are really a general-purpose instrument,” says Taylor, an assistant professor whose work spans two departments: biology and math and computer science. Genome Technology magazine recently named Taylor a top young investigator, featuring him in a special edition of 30 rising stars in genomics research.

In anticipation of the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication On the Origins of Species in 2009, and in collaboration with the Center for Science Education, the Computational and Life Sciences Stragetic Initiative, and the Origins Chemical Bonding Center at Emory University, we are pleased to announce this public symposium, Evolution Revolution: Science Changing Life. The symposium will be October 23, 2008 through October 24, 2008.

Now a leader in the field of using math and scientific computation to sharpen blurry images, for everything from medical to security applications, this former gymnast once had only a fuzzy picture of his future.