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Speakers
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Keynote Presentation (plenary)

Leroy Hood (Institute for Systems Biology)

John Avise (University of Georgia)

Walter Gehring (University of Basel): Development and Evolution of Eyes and Photoreceptors

Ford Doolittle (Dalhousie University, Canada): Tree of Life, Web of Life
Howard Ochman (University of Arizona): Horizontal Transfer and the Cohesion of Bacterial Genomes
Eugene Koonin (NCBI, National Institutes of Health): Early Genome Evolution
Sandie Baldauf (University of York, UK): Phylogeny and Early Evolution of Protists

Siv Andersson (University of Uppsala, Sweden): Evolution of Mitochondrial Genome and Proteome
Eric Green (National Human Genome Research Institute): Multi-species Sequences and the Detection of Functional Genomic Elements
Jeffrey Palmer (Indiana University): Plant Organellar Genome Evolution
Susan Wessler (University of Georgia): Genomic Evolution of Transposable Elements
Kenneth Wolfe (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland): Evolution by Gene and Genomic Duplication

Joel Cracraft (American Museum of Natural History): Tree and Timescale of Birds
Sudhir Kumar (Arizona State University): Large Data Sets in Phylogeny Reconstruction
Stephen J. O'Brien (National Cancer Institute): Mammalian Genomes and Phylogeny
Rytas Vilgalys (Duke University): Molecular Phylogeny of Fungi

Sean Carroll (University of Wisconsin): Homeobox Gene Evolution in Animals
Gunther Theissen (Jena University): Evolution of MADS-Box Genes Controlling Flowering in Plants
Neelima Sinha (University of California, Davis): Plant Homeobox Genes and the Evolution of Leaves
Michael Levine (University of California, Berkeley): Transcription Regulation and Animal Diversity

Svante Paabo (Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany): Genetic Differences between Humans and Other Hominoids
Evan Eichler (Case Western Reserve University): Rapid Evolution by Gene Duplication in Primates
Ajit Varki (University of California, San Diego): Multiple differences in Sialic Acid Biology between Humans and Great Apes
Naruya Saitou (National Institute of Genetics, Japan): Comparison of Human and Chimpanzee Genomes

Takashi Gojobori (National Institute of Genetics, Japan): Origins and Evolution of the Central Nervous System in Animals
Peter Parham (Stanford University): Origins and Evolution of the Innate Immune System in Primates
Jan Klein (Penn State): Origins of the Adaptive Immune System in Vertebrates
Stuart Firestein (Columbia University): Evolution of Olfactory Genes in Vertebrates

Daniel Hartl (Harvard University): Polymorphism and Evolution of Plasmodium Genomes
Mark Batzer (Louisiana State University): Mobile Elements and Primate Genomic Diversity
Michael Nachman (University of Arizona): Molecular Evolution of Melanism in Pocket Mice
Andrew Clark (Cornell University): Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Human Populations

Chris Cheng (University of Illinois): Evolutionary Genetics of Antifreeze Proteins
Sarah Mathews (Harvard University): Molecular Evolution of Phytochromes in Plants
Leslie Real (Emory University): Molecular Ecology and Dynamics of RNA Viruses
Loren Rieseberg (Indiana University): Hybridization and the Evolution of Phenotypic Diversity in Sunflowers

George Zhang (University of Michigan): Parallel Gene Duplication and Adaptive Evolution of a Digestive Enzyme in Leaf-Eating Monkeys
Rachel O'Neill (University of Connecticut): Molecular Genetics of Mammalian Speciation
Thomas Kocher (University of New Hampshire): Rapid Speciation of Cichlid Fishes in African Lakes
William Jeffery (University of Maryland): Evolution of Eye Degeneration in Cavefish
Norihiro Okada (Tokyo Institute of Technology): Looking for the molecular basis of adaptive evolution in cichlid fishes

(Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution)
This symposium provides a forum for young investigators. A committee will select eight speakers from among submitted abstracts (those who have chosen to compete), and each will be awarded partial travel support from SMBE. Following the symposium, one speaker will be awarded the Walter M. Fitch Prize. The Fitch Prize will be announced at the beginning of the SMBE Nei Lecture. Only members of the SMBE who are either current graduate students or postdoctoral researchers and who have received the primary doctoral-level degree no earlier than June 1, 2003, are eligible. Memberships that include or exclude a subscription to the Journal are available. New memberships and subscriptions, beginning in 2004, may be made online at http://www.mbe.oupjournals.org.