Perspectives in Biology SymposiumThe Department of Biology is pleased to announce the roster of speakers for the 25th Annual Perspectives in Biology symposium on November 13 and 14 2009. In addition to an outstanding roster of scientists, we also will have our own contribution to Darwin's Bicentennial celebration. One featured speaker will be Dr. Anthony Atala, from Wake Forest's own medical school faculty, who is the director of Wake's Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Dr. Atala and his team have made remarkable progress with the in vitro growth of tissues and organs. He is an internationally renowned scholar and authority on stem cell research. Dr. Robert Full, UC Berkeley, is the director of the Poly-Pedal Laboratory which focuses on biomechanics, especially of locomotion and it's application to robotics. A segment on Bob's lab and work with Robot Biomimicry was recently featured on ABC's Catalyst series. Check it out: http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/2577277.htm Darwin's 200th Birthday and the 150th anniversary of the publication of "The Origin" will be celebrated by Dr. Andrew Berry, Harvard University. Dr. Berry, whom some of you saw at the annual meeting of ASB in April, is an entertaining and dynamic speaker who will recount Gould's metaphor of rewinding the history of life, as well as forecasting Darwin's "3rd Century." All in all this should be a fitting way to celebrate our own milestone of 25 consecutive years of Perspectives in Biology. I urge you all to plan to attend, and tell some colleagues. Featured Speakers for 2009
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Dr. Anthony Atala
Dr. Anthony Atala is the Director of Wake's Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Dr. Atala and his team have made remarkable progress with the in vitro growth of tissues and organs. He is an internationally renowned scholar and authority on stem cell research. This CBS news segment focuses on Dr. Atala's work at his development laboratory and pilot manufacturing facility in Winston-Salem: click here to view | |||
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Dr. Robert Full
Dr. Robert Full is the director of the Poly-Pedal Laboratory which focuses on biomechanics, especially of locomotion and it's application to robotics. A segment on Bob's lab and work with Robot Biomimicry was recently featured on ABC's Catalyst series. An extensive biographical sketch can be found at this web site: click here to view | |||
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Dr. Andrew Berry
Dr. Andrew Berry is a researcher, teacher, and prolific writer at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology. Andrew holds an undergraduate degree in zoology from Oxford and a PhD in evolutionary genetics from Princeton, Andrew's expertise is on how Darwinian processes affect natural populations. His research has taken him into the bowels of molecular biology labs (in pursuit of that most charismatic of species, the fruit fly) and to more far-flung locales, such as Nepal (bats), Borneo (butterflies), the Ecuadorean Andes (more butterflies), and the Faroe Islands (wrens). In the highlands of New Guinea, he has done research on the ecology and behavior on some of the region's more engaging species: giant rats and spiny bandicoots. | |||
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