Preliminary Program: List of Speakers and Sessions Chairs
Plenary Session Speakers Sir John Walker (Cambridge, UK)
Ada Yonath (Rehovot)
Speakers and Session Chairs
Fine-tuning of the Universe Brian Keating (San Diego)
Gerald Schroeder (Jerusalem)
David Snoke (Pittsburgh)
Origin of Life: Pre-biotic chemistry Nigel Pyne (Glasgow)
Peter Imming (Halle)
Ron Naaman (Rehovot)
Tomonori Totani (Tokyo)
James Tour (Houston)
Steve Benner (Alachua)
Origin of Life: Lipids David Deamer (Santa Cruz)
Tony Futerman (Rehovot)
Doron Lancet (Rehovot)
Origin & Fine-tuning of the Genetic Code
Paul Nelson (Seattle)
Zachary Ardern (Karlsruhe)
Ádám Kun (Budapest)
Michael Yarus (Boulder)
Pathways to Functional Islands in Protein Sequence Space
Joel Sussman (Rehovot)
Sir Alan Fersht (Cambridge, UK)
Charisse Crenshaw (Dallas)
John Moult (Rockville)
Sarel Fleishman (Rehovot)
Evolution of Novel Proteins by Modification
Eugene Koonin (Bethesda)
Avihu Yona (Rehovot)
Lianet Noda (Rehovot)
Richard Buggs (London)
Shifra Ben-Dor (Rehovot)
Klaus Neuhaus (Munich)
Evolutionary genetics Karl Skorecki (Safed)
Ola Hössjer (Stockholm)
Michael Behe (Bethlehem, PA)
Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern (Safed)
Fine-tuning of Biological Systems I Russ Carlson (Athens, GA)
Michael Sherman (Ariel)
Robert Haltiwanger (Athens, GA)
Gordon Lauc (Zagreb)
Emyr MacDonald (Cardiff)
Siegfried Scherer (Munich)
Fine-tuning of Biological Systems II
Offer Gerlitz (Jerusalem)
Uri Alon (Rehovot)
Scott Turner (New York)
New approaches in Evolutionary Theory
Yoav Soen (Rehovot)
Guenter Wagner (New Haven)
What is emerging?
Tim Cox (Cambridge)
Steve Fuller (Coventry)
John Lennox (Oxford)
Addy Pross (Beersheva)
Guenter Wagner (New Haven)