20th Annual International Symposium
Center for Study of Gene Structure & Function
Hunter College, City University of New York

Friday, January 19th, 2007
Room 714 Hunter West Building,
68th Street & Lexington Avenue, New York City

Morning Session 9:00am*

Paul Ewald
University of Kansas
"Gene/Environment Interaction and the Causes of Atherosclerosis."

Christina Gutierrez
Pasteur Institute, France
“Parallel Origin and Diversity of TB Agents and Humans”

Steve Mack
Roche Institute
“Using the Human Major Histocompatibility Complex to
Study Disease, Natural Selection and Human Evolution”

Holly Wichman
University of Idaho
“Experimental Evolution in a Virus Model System”

Afternoon Session 1:00pm*

Stephen Bezruchka
University of Washington
“Targeting Childhood Development to Make the Nation Healthy Again.”

Arata Kochi
Director, World Health Organization’s Global Malaria Program (WHO/GMP)
“Malaria control:  why it has failed and how to fix it?
Public health approaches and international politics”
 
Stuart Levy
Tufts University
“The Ecology of Antibiotic Resistance”

Randolph Nesse
University of Michigan
"Darwinian Medicine: Why has Natural Selection Left Us So Vulnerable to Disease?"

Paul Sherman
Cornell University
“Allergies and Cancers: Are the Complex Relationships Comprehensible?”  


*Names are in alphabetical order

This event is free and open to the public. 
Online registration is encouraged.

Enter student poster session contest – submit abstract on the symposium website:
http://genecenter.hunter.cuny.edu/evosymposium/

Supported by the Research Centers in Minority Institutions Program of the Division
of Research Infrastructure of the National Center for Research Resources
of the National Institutes of Health - Grant Number G12 RR-03037