2007 AIBS
Annual Meeting Focus on Health
American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS)
1444 I (Eye) Street NW, Suite 200
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: (202) 628-1500
http://www.aibs.org/
For Immediate Release
6 December 2006
For more information, contact:
Sue Burk, AIBS Meetings Director
sburk@aibs.org
or
sburk@burkinc.com
Speakers to present topics on "Evolutionary Biology and
Human Health" May 14-25, Washington, D.C.
Washington, DC. The 2007 AIBS annual meeting will be
held 14 to 15 May, 2007 in Washington DC, on the theme of
"Evolutionary Biology and Human Health," at the Capital Hilton
Hotel. The program chair is 2007 AIBS President Douglas
Futuyma, State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Following the AIBS annual meeting, the AIBS Council of member
societies and organizations will also meet at the Capital
Hilton, 15-16 May. Accredited members of the press are invited
to attend all events at no charge.
Principles and methods of evolutionary biology are becoming
increasingly important in many aspects of health science,
among them understanding the human genome, the normal
functions and malfunctions of human genes, and the origin and
evolution of infectious diseases. These are among the topics
addressed in sessions on Infectious Diseases; Genes and
Genomics; and Human Adaptation and Malfunction. The rest of
the meeting's program will be rounded out by events such as a
contributed poster session, a diversity lunch, and AIBS
awards.
Speakers include:
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Eric Green, National Human Genome Research Institute,
Bethesda, MD
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Edward Holmes, Department of Biology, Center for Infectious
Disease Dynamics, Pennsylvania State University, University
Park, PA
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Rustom Antia, Department of Biology, Emory University,
Atlanta, GA
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Carlos Bustamante, Department of Biological Statistics and
Computational Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
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Douglas C. Wallace, Center for Molecular & Mitochondrial
Medicine and Genetics and Biological Chemistry, University
of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA
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Sarah Tishkoff, Department of Biology University of
Maryland, College Park, MD
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Martin Nowak, Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA
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Randolph Nesse, Evolution and Human Adaptation Program,
University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI
For more information about the AIBS annual meeting, visit:
http://www.aibs.org/annual-meeting/annual_meeting_2007.html
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