<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hey folks,<br><br>I hope you are all doing well.<br><br>We are about two weeks out from the webcast lecture from Professor Sean Carroll. As most of know, Prof. Carroll is a great speaker, scientist and writer. He is going to put together a *terrific* talk that will be live at Wisconsin and broadcast live around the world.<br><br>Can you help?<div><br><div>- Spread the word far and wide for folks to sign-up<br>This is going to be a very special presentation. Sean has been working on it - and all I can tell you is that will be a multi-media extravaganza.<br><br><div>[ ] Yes, happy to spread the word!<br>[ ] No, not able to<br><br>See the sample invite below to pass out to your communities. Also see the Facebook and Twitter suggestions that I have for you.<br><br>Thank you!<br><br>Phil</div><div><br>----------------------------<br>Sample Facebook update<br>----------------------------<br><br>The Making of the Fittest? Global Darwin150 webcast with Prof. Sean Carroll Nov 4, 2009 at 8pm ET. Free: <a href="http://darwinlecture3.eventbrite.com/">http://darwinlecture3.eventbrite.com/</a><br><br>----------------------------<br>Sample Twitter post<br>----------------------------<br><br>The Making of the Fittest? Global Darwin150 webcast with Prof. Sean Carroll 11/4/09 @8pmET Free: <a href="http://bit.ly/BSUcG">http://bit.ly/BSUcG</a><br><br>----------------------------<br>Sample e-mail invite<br>----------------------------<br><br>Subject: Invitation to "Making of the Fittest" Wed., Nov 4 8pm ET<br><br>I'd like to invite you to the Darwin150 lecture by renowned scientist Professor Sean Carroll, "The Making of the Fittest: Natural Selection and the DNA Record of Evolution" Wednesday, November 4 at 8pm New York time, 5pm California.<br><br>For free sign-up for the webcast, click here:<br><a href="http://darwinlecture3.eventbrite.com/">http://darwinlecture3.eventbrite.com/</a><br><br>World-renowned scientist, Professor Carroll, author of a number of books for the general reader and over 100 scientific papers, will deliver the third lecture in the Darwin150 "Origin of Species" anniversary series. Hosted by The Reading Odyssey and the Darwin Facebook project, the lecture series is sponsored by National Geographic, Citrix Online and their HiDef Conferencing Division, Campaign Monitor, Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, National Center for Science Education,Squarespace, Creation The Movie, and The New York Academy of Sciences.<br><br>Sean Carroll's bio is below. I hope you can join us for this global event!<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>[yourname]<br><br>----------------------------<br>Sean Carroll is Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics and an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Wisconsin. His research has centered on the genes that control animal body patterns and play major roles in the evolution of animal diversity. Major discoveries from his laboratory have been featured in TIME, US News & World Report, The New York Times, Discover, and Natural History.<br><br>Sean is the author of The Making of the Fittest (2006, W.W. Norton) and of Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo(2005, W.W. Norton). He is also co-author with Jen Grenier and Scott Weatherbee of the textbook From DNA to Diversity: Molecular Genetics and the Evolution of Animal Design (2nd ed, 2005; Blackwell Scientific) and with Anthony Griffiths, Richard Lewontin, and Susan Wessler of the textbook Introduction to Genetic Analysis(9e, 2007, W.H. Freeman and Co.). He is also the author or co-author of more than 100 scientific papers.<br><br>Sean is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (elected 2007) and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has received the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Shaw Scientist Award of the Milwaukee Foundation, and numerous honorary lectureships. Sean was named one of America's most promising leaders under 40 by TIME Magazine in 1994.<br><br>He earned his B.A. in Biology at Washington University in St. Louis, his Ph.D. in Immunology at Tufts Medical School, and carried out his postdoctoral research with Dr. Matthew Scott at the University of Colorado-Boulder.<br><br>Sean lives in Madison, Wisconsin with his wife Jamie and two sons.</div></div></div></body></html>