The 45th Joint Atlantic Seminar in the History of Biology will be held
at Harvard University on Saturday, March 27, 2010.

The Joint Atlantic Seminar offers the opportunity for graduate students
in the history of the life sciences to present their work to a
well-informed audience in an intimate and encouraging setting. JAS-Bio
has fostered a long tradition of collegiality amongst historians of
biology in the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada.  Now
in its fifth decade, it was the venue where many of today?s senior
participants gave their first academic talk.

For attendees who are able to arrive on Friday afternoon, there will be
a tour of Louis Agassiz's Museum of Comparative Zoology followed by an
informal welcoming reception.  A celebratory dinner will be held on
Saturday evening after the presentations.

Attendance at the seminar is free for graduate students.  Registration
is required for all attendees.

To register, please send an email to Alistair Sponsel sponsel@fas.harvard.edu 
containing your name, institutional affiliation and contact information, 
and whether you expect to attend the events on Friday and/or the Saturday 
evening dinner.

Students who would like to present a paper should send a title and
one-page abstract to Alistair Sponsel by emailing the address above, or
by writing to:

Dr. Alistair Sponsel
Department of the History of Science
Harvard University
371 Science Center
Cambridge, MA 02138

THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING ABSTRACTS IS 1 FEBRUARY 2010.

Harvard University is located near Boston in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
and is readily accessible by car, rail, and air.  All conference
activities will take place on campus.  For information on travel to
Harvard, please consult:
http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/visit/directions.html

For more information on the history of the Joint Atlantic Seminar, see
Mary P. Winsor's article in Isis, 1999, 90:S219-S225.

Harvard organizing committee for JAS-Bio 2010:

Professor Janet Browne (chair)
Professor Everett Mendelsohn
Myrna Perez
Alistair Sponsel

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