This is a list of scientists who participated in the 1964 Evolving Genes and Proteins symposium, a landmark event in the history of molecular evolution. The symposium, supported by the National Science Foundation, took place on September 17 and September 18, 1964 at the Institute of Microbiology of Rutgers University. A summary of the proceedings was published in Science, and the full proceedings were edited by Vernon Bryson and Henry J. Vogel and published in 1965.Vernon Bryson and Henry J. Vogel, editors. Evolving Genes and Proteins: A Symposium Held at the Institute of Microbiology of Rutgers, The State University, with support from the National Science Foundation. Academic Press: New York, 1965