

Preliminary Program: List of Speakers and Sessions Chairs
Plenary Session Speakers Sir John Walker (Cambridge, UK)
Ada Yonath (Rehovot)
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Speakers and Session Chairs
Fine-tuning of the Universe Brian Keating (San Diego)
Gerald Schroeder (Jerusalem)
David Snoke (Pittsburgh)
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Origin of Life: Pre-biotic chemistry Nigel Pyne (Glasgow)
Peter Imming (Halle)
Ron Naaman (Rehovot)
Tomonori Totani (Tokyo)
James Tour (Houston)
Steve Benner (Alachua)
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Origin of Life: Lipids David Deamer (Santa Cruz)
Tony Futerman (Rehovot)
Doron Lancet (Rehovot)
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Origin & Fine-tuning of the Genetic Code
Paul Nelson (Seattle)
Zachary Ardern (Karlsruhe)
Ádám Kun (Budapest)
Michael Yarus (Boulder)
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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)
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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)
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Evolutionary genetics Karl Skorecki (Safed)
Ola Hössjer (Stockholm)
Michael Behe (Bethlehem, PA)
Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern (Safed)
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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)
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Fine-tuning of Biological Systems II
Offer Gerlitz (Jerusalem)
Uri Alon (Rehovot)
Scott Turner (New York)
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New approaches in Evolutionary Theory
Yoav Soen (Rehovot)
Guenter Wagner (New Haven)
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What is emerging?
Tim Cox (Cambridge)
Steve Fuller (Coventry)
John Lennox (Oxford)
Addy Pross (Beersheva)
Guenter Wagner (New Haven)
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