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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Human Biology - 2006 Conference
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