Participants
The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
The Genomic Revolution:
Implications for Treatment and Control of Infectious Disease
Conference
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies
(Irvine, CA)
November 10-13, 2005
Asem Alkhateeb
Postdoctoral Scholar
Department of Human Genetics
University of Chicago
Megan Atkinson
Senior Program Specialist
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Philip Awadalla
Assistant Professor
Department of Genetics
North Carolina State University
Agnes Awomoyi
Postdoctoral Scholar
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Maryland, Baltimore
Myles Axton
Editor
Nature Genetics
John Barry
Writer
Benjamin Bates
Assistant Professor
School of Communication Studies
Ohio University
Phillip Berman
Scientific Director
Global Solutions for Infectious Diseases
Bruce Beutler
Professor
Department of Immunology
The Scripps Research Institute
Corey Binns
Graduate Student
Department of Science Journalism
New York University
Sally Blower
Professor
Department of Biomathematics
University of California, Los Angeles
Katie Brenner
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Bioengineering
California Institute of Technology
Steven Brenner
Associate Professor
Department of Plant & Microbial Biology
University of California, Berkeley
James Brody
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of California, Irvine
Lawrence Brody
Senior Investigator
Genome Technology Branch
National Human Genome Research Institute
William Bunney, Jr.
Distinguished Professor
Della Martin Chair of Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
University of California, Irvine
Karen Burg
Hunter Chair and Professor
Department of Bioengineering
Clemson University
Frederic Bushman
Professor
Department of Microbiology
University of Pennsylvania
Robert Carlson
Senior Scientist
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Washington
Shu Chien
University Professor of Bioengineering and Medicine
Chair, Department of Bioengineering
University of California, San Diego
Ralph J. Cicerone
President
National Academy of Sciences
Alex Cohen
Research Associate / Programmer
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Gareth Cook
Repoter
The Boston Globe
Robert Cook-Deegan
Director, Center for Genome Ethics, Law and Policy
Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy
Duke University
Brad Cookson
Associate Professor
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Microbiology
University of Washington
Elliott Crouser
Assistant Professor
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Ohio State University Medical Center
Karen T. Cuenco
Research Assistant Professor
School of Medicine
Boston University
Barbara Culliton
Deputy Editor
Health Affairs
Mary Jane Cunningham
Associate Director
Life Sciences and Health Group
Houston Advanced Research Center
Dat Dao
Director
Life Sciences and Health Group
Houston Advanced Research Center
Ronald W. Davis
Professor of Biochemistry and Genetics
Director, Stanford Genome Technology Center
Stanford University School of Medicine
Austin Demby
Senior Staff Fellow
Global AIDS Program
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
George Dimopoulos
Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Cecilia Dobbs
Graduate Student
Department of Science Journalism
New York University
Siobhan Dolan
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women’s Health
Albert Einstein College of Medicine and March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation
Dennis Drayna
Chief, Section on Systems Biology of Communication Disorders
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
National Institutes of Health
Georgia Dunston
Professor
Department of Microbiology
National Human Genome Center
Howard University
Leah Moore Eisenstadt
Graduate Student
Department of Science Journalism
Boston University
Alison Farrell
Senior Editor
Nature Medicine
Michael Fasullo
Senior Research Scientist
Department of Cancer Research
Ordway Research Institute
Jeffrey Feder
Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Notre Dame
Harvey V. Fineberg
President
Institute of Medicine
Daniel A. Fletcher
Assistant Professor
Department of Bioengineering
University of California, Berkeley
Roxanne Ford
Program Director
W.M. Keck Foundation
Richard N. Foster
Managing Partner
Foster Health Partners, LLC
Board Member
W.M. Keck Foundation
Stephanie Malia Fullerton
Assistant Professor
Department of Medical History and Ethics
University of Washington School of Medicine
Kenneth R. Fulton
Executive Director
National Academy of Sciences
Sonja Gerrard
Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology
University of Michigan
Peggy Girshman
Assistant Managing Editor
National Public Radio
Lenette Golding
Doctoral Student
Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Georgia
Ananda Goldrath
Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
University of California, San Diego
Mark Guyer
Director
Division of Extramural Research
The National Human Genome Research Institute
Kiryn Haslinger
Science Writer
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
David Haussler
Director of the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering
Professor of Biomolecular Engineering
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of California, Santa Cruz
Lyla M. Hernandez
Senior Program Officer
Board on Health Sciences Policy
Institute of Medicine
Ezra C. Holston
Assistant Professor
School of Nursing
University of California, Los Angeles
Barbara R. Jasny
Supervisory Senior Editor
Science
Stephen Albert Johnston
Director and Professor
Center for Innovations in Medicine
Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University
Jonathan Kahn
Assistant Professor
School of Law
Hamline University
Amos Kenigsberg
Graduate Student
Center for Science and Medical Journalism
Boston University
Rima F. Khabbaz
Acting Deputy Director
National Center for Infectious Diseases
Muin J. Khoury
Director
Office of Genomics and Disease Prevention
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Rob Knight
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Colorado, Boulder
Leonid Kruglyak
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
Princeton University
Paul Laibinis
Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Vanderbilt University
Corinne Lengsfeld
Associate Professor
Department of Engineering
University of Denver
Kam Leong
Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
Rachel Lesinski
Senior Program Specialist
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Thomas Levenson
Associate Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mary E. Lidstrom
Associate Dean
New Initiatives in Engineering
University of Washington
Hod Lipson
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Cornell University
Robin Liu
Manager
Microfluidics Biochip
Combimatrix Corporation
Michael Lorenz
Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
University of Texas Health Science Center
Allison Loudermilk
Graduate Student
Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Georgia
Dan Luo
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering
Cornell University
Alan McBride
Researcher
Goncalo Moniz Research Center
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Colleen McBride
Chief
Social and Behavioral Research Branch
National Human Genome Research Institute
Catherine McCarty
Interim Director and Senior Research Scientist
Center for Human Genetics
Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation
Erin McClelland
Research Fellow
Department of Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Susanne McDowell
Graduate Student
Department of Science Communication
University of California, Santa Cruz
Ulrich Melcher
R.J. Sirny Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Oklahoma State University
Deirdre Meldrum
Director of the NIH Center of Excellence in Genomic Science (CEGS) Microscale Life Sciences Center
Professor of Electrical Engineering
University of Washington
Arcady Mushegian
Director
Bioinformatics Center
Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Isaac Mwase
Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy and Bioethics
National Center for Bioethics in Research and Healthcare
Tuskegee University
Gary Nabel
Director
Vaccine Research Center
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
National Institutes of Health
Daniel Oerther
Associate Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Cincinnati
Susan Okie
Contributing Editor
New England Journal of Medicine
Marc Orbach
Associate Professor
Division of Plant Pathology
University of Arizona
George O’Toole
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Dartmouth Medical School
Mihri Ozkan
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of California, Riverside
Claire Panosian
Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases
David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles
Babak Parviz
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Washington
Fabienne Paumet
Associate Research Scientist
Department of Physiology and Biophysics
Columbia University
Aria Pearson
Graduate Student
Science Writing
University of California, Santa Cruz
P. Hunter Peckham
Director, FES Center
Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Case Western Reserve University
Marty Perreault
Program Director
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Gregory A. Petsko
Gyula and Katica Tauber Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry
Director, Rosenstiel Center
Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center
Brandeis University
Christopher Plowe
Professor
Department of Medicine
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Haley Poland
Graduate Student
Annenberg School of Journalism
University of Southern California
Alan Porter
Evaluation Coordinating Consultant
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Mary Reichler
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
David Relman
Assistant Professor
Division of Infectious Diseases
Stanford University
Karin Remington
Vice-President
Bioinformatics Research
J. Craig Venter Institute
Anne W. Rimoin
Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology
School of Public Health
University of California, Los Angeles
Bob Roehr
Freelance Science Writer
Dave Roessner
Senior Evaluation Consultant
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Michael Rose
Director
Intercampus Research Program on Experimental Evolution
University of California (Systemwide)
Charles Rotimi
Professor and Director
National Human Genome Center
Howard University
Bernhard Rupp
Structural Genomics Group Leader
Biosciences
University of California – Lawrence Livermore National Lab
Daniel Salsbury
Managing Editor
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Paul Schaudies
Assistant Vice-President
Biological and Chemical Defense Division
Science Applications International Corporation
Holger Schmidt
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of California, Santa Cruz
Debra Schwinn
James B. Duke Professor
Department of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology
Duke University Medical Center
Beatrice Seguin
Postdoctoral Fellow
Canadian Program on Genomics and Global Health
University of Toronto
Chandra Shekhar
Graduate Student
Department of Science Writing
University of California, Santa Cruz
Mona Singh
Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
Princeton University
Upinder Singh
Assistant Professor
Department of Internal Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology
Stanford University
Bill Skane
Executive Director
Office of News & Public Information
The National Academies
Christina Smolke
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
California Institute of Technology
Katherine Spindler
Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Michigan Medical School
Jonathan Stroud
Graduate Student
Annenberg School of Journalism
University of Southern California
Lubert Stryer
Winzer Professor, Emeritus
Department of Neurobiology
Stanford University School of Medicine
Shankar Subramaniam
Professor
Department of Bioengineering
University of California, San Diego
Diane Sullenberger
Executive Editor
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
William Sullivan
Professor
Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
University of California, Santa Cruz
Hongmin Sun
Life Science Institute
University of Michigan
Mercedes Talley
Program Director
W.M. Keck Foundation
Todd Thorsen
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sarah Tishkoff
Associate Professor
Department of Biology
University of Maryland
Eric Topol
Provost and Chief Academic Officer
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Victor Ugaz
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Texas A&M University
Timothy Umland
Department of Structural Biology
Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute
Luis Villarreal
Professor
Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
University of California, Irvine
Joseph Vockley
Laboratory Director
Life Sciences Division
Science Applications International Corporation
Shan Wang
Associate Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Stanford University
Michael Waterman
Professor
Department of Computational Biology
University of Southern California
Robert Waterston
William H. Gates III Endowed Chair in Biomedical Sciences, Chair and Professor
Department of Genome Sciences
University of Washington
Debra Weiner
Attending Physician
Emergency Medicine
Children’s Hospital Boston
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School
Lloyd Whitman
Head
Code 6177
The Surface Nanoscience and Sensor Technology Section
Naval Research Laboratory
John Wikswo
Gordon A. Cain University Professor
Vanderbilt Institute for Integrated Biosystems Research and Education
Vanderbilt University
John E. Wiktorowicz
Associate Professor
Department of Human Biological Chemistry and Genetics
University of Texas Medical Branch
Huntington Willard
Director and Professor
Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy
Duke University
Marc S. Williams
Director
Clinical Genetics Institute
Intermountain Health Care
Mary Wilson
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine and Associate Professor of Population and International Health
Harvard School of Public Health
Harvard Medical School
Elizabeth Winzeler
Associate Professor
Department of Cell Biology
The Scripps Research Institute
Steven Wolinsky
Samuel J. Sackett Professor of Medicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Wm. A. Wulf
President
National Academy of Engineering
Zhenhua Yang
Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology
University of Michigan, School of Public Health
Hsiang-Yu Yuan
Graduate Student
Institute of Biomedical Sciences
Academia Sinica
Lyna Zhang
National Center for Infectious Disease
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Hongyu Zhao
Ira V. Hiscock Associate Professor
Department of Public Health and Genetics
Yale University
Shaying Zhao
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Institute of Bioinformatics
University of Georgia
Michael Zwick
Assistant Professor
Department of Human Genetics
Emory University School Of Medicine