For those living near our nation's capital:
2007 AIBS Annual Meeting: Evolutionary Biology and Human Health
Additional Sessions to Include Discussions of Framing Issues in
Scientific Explanations, Launch of Online Encyclopedia of Life
14 - 15 May 2007
Capital Hilton Hotel, 1001 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036
PROGRAM, REGISTRATION, POSTERS ONLINE:
http://www.aibs.org/annual-meeting/annual_meeting_2007.html
AIBS will mark its 60th anniversary at its 2007 annual meeting, to be
held 14-15 May 2007 at the Capital Hilton Hotel in Washington, DC. The
theme of the meeting is "Evolutionary Biology and Human Health"; the
program chair is 2007 AIBS president Douglas Futuyma, State University
of New York at Stony Brook.
The meeting is co-sponsored by the Federation of American Societies for
Experimental Biology.
Registration is $50 for all seats. Recordings of the plenary lectures
will go online for free viewing in the AIBS Media Library within two
months after the date of the meeting.
PROGRAM:
Monday, 14 May
8:30 a.m.
Opening remarks, AIBS President, Douglas Futuyma, State University of
New York at Stony Brook
8:45 a.m.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Eric Green
National Human Genome Research Institute
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD
"Comparative Genome Sequencing: Using Evolution to Decode the Human
Genome"
Session A: Infectious Diseases
9:30 a.m.
Edward Holmes
Department of Biology
Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA
"The Evolution of Emerging Viruses"
10:15 a.m.
Coffee break and exhibits
10:45 a.m.
Rustom Antia
Department of Biology
Emory University
Atlanta, GA
"Modeling the Emergence of Infectious Diseases"
11:30 a.m.
Session A Discussion Session
Plenary Speakers Edward Holmes and Rustom Antia
Irene A. Eckstrand, National Institute of General Medical Sciences,
National Institutes of Health
Stephen J. O'Brien, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of
Health
Diane Griffin, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
12:00 p.m.
Lunch break
Special event: Diversity Luncheon (separate registration required; see
meeting registration form) Speaker: Georgia M. Dunston, Director of
Molecular Genetics, National Human Genome Center, Howard University,
Washington DC
"Human Genome Variation in Human Identity and Health Disparities"
Discussion Group, 12:30 - 1:15pm: "Education at the National
Evolutionary Synthesis Center" with Kristin Jenkins, NESCent, Durham,
NC. Includes information on the NESCent conference, 23 - 26 May,
"Evolution in Contemporary Human Populations: Medical, Genetic, and
Behavior Implications."
1:30 p.m.
AIBS Awards
Print Media Award - Kenneth R Weiss and Usha Lee McFarling for "Altered
Oceans"
Broadcast Media Award - David Baron for "Bioko's Endangered Monkeys"
Past-President's Award - Kent E. Holsinger, University of Connecticut
President's Citation Award - Niles Eldredge, American Museum of Natural
History, New York
Education Award - Carol A. Brewer, University of Montana
Outstanding Service Award - William Murdoch, University of California,
Santa Barbara
Distinguished Scientist Award - Simon A. Levin, Princeton University
Session B: Genes and Genomics
2:30 p.m.
Carlos Bustamante
Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
"Computational Methods for Enabling Gene Mapping in Natural Populations
and Domesticated Species"
3:15 p.m.
Coffee break and exhibits
3:45 p.m.
Douglas C. Wallace
Center for Molecular & Mitochondrial Medicine and Genetics, Biological
Chemistry
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA
"A Mitochondrial Paradigm of Metabolic and Degenerative Diseases, Cancer
and Aging: A Dawn for Evolutionary Medicine."
(Sponsored by the Federation of American Societies for Experimental
Biology)
4:30 p.m.
Session B Discussion Session
Plenary Speakers Carlos Bustamante and Douglas Wallace
Stephen J. O'Brien, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of
Health
Robert Fleischer, National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Institution
Adam Fagen, The National Academies
5:00 p.m.
Special Discussion Groups: Education and other topics
These three 5 - 6 pm sessions are free and open to the public
Session 1: "Framing Science: The Road to 2008 and Beyond,"
Matthew Nisbet, School of Communication, American University
and Chris Mooney, Washington correspondent, Seed magazine
See Nisbet / Mooney article in Science, 6 April:
http://scienceblogs.com/framing-science/2007/04/at_the_journal_science_a
_nisbe.php#more
Session 2: "Why don't doctors learn evolution, and what can we do about
it?"
Randolph Nesse, Evolution and Human Adaptation Program, The University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Kenna Shaw, American Society of Human Genetics
Joseph McInerney, National Coalition for Health Professional Education
in Genetics
Session 3: "The Encyclopedia of Life: A Web Site for Every Species"
James L. Edwards, Global Biodiversity Information Facility
6:00 p.m.
Dinner on your own
8:00-10:00 p.m.
Welcome reception, poster session, and exhibits
Tuesday, 15 May
Session C: Human Adaptation and Malfunction
9:00 a.m.
Sarah Tishkoff
Department of Biology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD
"Genetic Variation and Adaptation in Africa: Implications for Human
Evolution and Disease"
9:45 a.m.
Martin Nowak
Program for Evolutionary Dynamics
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
"Evolutionary Dynamics of Cancer"
10:30 a.m.
Coffee break and exhibits
11:00 a.m.
Session C Discussion Session
Plenary Speakers Sarah Tishkoff and Martin Nowak
Jay Labov, National Academy of Sciences
Kenna Shaw, American Society of Human Genetics
11:45 a.m.
ENDNOTE SPEAKER:
Randolph Nesse
Evolution and Human Adaptation Program
The University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
"Evolutionary Medicine is Flowering. How can we help it set seed?"
12:30 p.m.
END OF MEETING
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