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Speakers, Discussants, Conveners, and Moderators

Caroline Alexander (Wisconsin):  Mammary stem cells:  tumor precursors?
Alan Attie (Wisconsin):  Convenor and Moderator; New diabetes susceptibility genes from genetic and genomic studies in mice
Paul Bach-y-Rita (Wisconsin):  Electrotactile Arrays for Sensory Substitution and Treatment of Vestibular Disorders
Naama Barkai (Harvard):  Title: To be announced
David Beebe (Wisconsin):  Moderator; In vitro microenvironments for understanding cellular function and disease
Ruth Benca (Wisconsin)  Moderator
Charles Cantor (Sequenom):  Systems for noninvasive biomarker identification
Sean Carroll (Wisconsin):  Moderator; On principles of regulatory evolution 
Dennis Charney (Mt. Sinai, NY):  Psychobiological mechanisms of human resilience to extreme stress:  a resilience prescription
Chiara Cirelli (Wisconsin):  Sleep and Genes:  from mechanisms to functions
Teresa Compton (Wisconsin):  Convener and Moderator; The complex dynamics of the early events in viral infections
Richard Cooper (Loyola, Chicago):  Race, genes and common disease
Richard Davidson (Wisconsin):  Convener and Moderator; On emotion and the brain
John Dick (Toronto):  Cancer stem cells:  lessons from leukemia
William Dove (Wisconsin):  Convener
Troy Duster (NYU and UC-Berkeley):  The relationship between racial classification and the research programs in human biology
Marcus Feldman (Stanford):  Continental ancestry and human history in the “Race” debate
Joan Fujimura (Wisconsin):  Convener and Moderator
Michael Gould (Wisconsin):  Breast cancer modifier alleles
John Hawks (Wisconsin):  Convener
Eddie Holmes (Penn State):  The emergence and evolution of RNA viruses
Yoshihiro Kawaoka (Wisconsin and Tokyo):  Enigmas of emerging viruses
Cynthia Kenyon (UC San Francisco):  The hormonal control of aging
Judith Kimble (Wisconsin):  Moderator
Sarah Miller Lauffer (Wisconsin):  Discussant
Rudolf Leibel (Columbia):  Molecular physiology of the regulation of body weight
Daniel Lieberman (Harvard):  Brains versus brawn in human evolution
Mark McDaniel (St. Louis):  Learning science and the science of learning
Margaret McFall-Ngai (Wisconsin):  Ecosystem management:  living with thousands of bacterial phylotypes
Michael Meaney (McGill):  Maternal care, genes & the development of strategy
Peter Mombaerts (Rockefeller University):  Olfaction targeted
Vamsi Mootha (Harvard):  Systematic maps, measures, and models of mitochondrial function
Mitchell Nathan (Wisconsin):  Discussant
Jeremy Nicholson (London):  Of microbes, men and metabolism:  global systems biology approaches to modeling human disease
Donata Oertel (Wisconsin):  Moderator
Erin O’Shea (UC San Francisco):  Signaling phosphate starvation
Svante Pääbo (Leipzig):  A genomic view of human origins
Isabelle Peretz (Montreal):  When the brain is out of tune
Elizabeth Phelps (NYU):  Emotion, cognition, and the human amygdala
Till Roenneberg (Munich):  Epidemiology and genetics of chronotypes and social jetlag
Carol Ryff (Wisconsin):  Convener and Moderator
Jenny Saffran (Wisconsin):  Convener and Moderator
Eric Schadt (Rosetta):  Reconstructing gene network associated with obesity and related metabolic traits
David Schwartz (Wisconsin):  Single molecule approaches to mammalian genomics
Burt Singer (Princeton):  Moderator
Andrew Steptoe (Univ College London):  Positive well-being, biological responses, and physical disease risk
Jim Stewart (Wisconsin):  Discussant
Karen Strier (Wisconsin):  Biological aspects of primate cultural behavior
Bill Sugden (Wisconsin):  Moderator
Millard Susman (Wisconsin):  Convener
Clive Svendsen (Wisconsin):  Neural stem cells
Giulio Tononi (Wisconsin):  Sleep and synaptic homeostasis
Rayla Temin (Wisconsin):  Moderator
John Yin (Wisconsin):  Convener, Moderator, and Speaker
Terry Young (Wisconsin):  Untangling the epidemics of obesity, sleep apnea, and sleep deprivation
Robert Zatorre (Montreal):  Understanding the brain through music:  perception, imagery, and emotion

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