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

“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 OrganizationÂ’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 available, but not required.

Enter student poster session contest –cash prizes for the 3 best posters.

Submit abstracts on the symposium website.

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