11th German-American Symposium
Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung – U.S. National Academy of Sciences
June 3-5, 2005
Irvine, California
Sessions:
- Complex Networks
- Endosymbiosis: Its Impact on the Evolution of Life
- Objects and Attention
- Protein Folding
- Seafloor Hydrothermal Systems
- Smart Antibiotics
- Ultrafast Phenomena with Light Pulses
- Why So Many Species? The Origin of Biodiversity
Complex Networks
Organizers: Thomas Martinetz and Ronald Parr
Speakers:
Complex Networks from the Genome to the Internet
Stefan Bornholdt, University of Bremen
Information Dynamics in an Networked World
Lada Adamic, HP Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA
Universal Patterns in the Dynamics and Structure of Complex Systems
Luís António Nunes Amaral, Northwestern University
Endosymbiosis: Its Impact on the Evolution of Life
Organizers: Jörg Gromoll and Jessica Kissinger
Speakers:
Endosymbiosis: Its Impact on the Evolution of Life
Charles F. Delwiche, University of Maryland - College Park
Hydrogenosomes - Impact of an Anaerobic Relative of Mitochondria on the Endosymbiont Hypothesis
Katrin Henze, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf
Characterizaion of a Potential Eukaryote to Eukaryote Horizontal Gene Transfer
Steve Massey, University of South Florida
Objects and Attention
Organizers: Martin Korte and Valerie Kuhlmeier
Speakers:
Brian Scholl, Yale University
Attention Modulation of Visual Motion Processing: Space, Features and Objects
Stefan Treue, German Primate Center
Continuity in Representation and Computation: Object Representations in Human Adults and Infants
Lisa Feigenson, Johns Hopkins University
Protein Folding
Organizers: Kristin Hager and Kay Severin
Speakers:
Judith Frydman, Stanford University
Protein Folding Kinetics In Vitro: From Microseconds to Years
Jochen Balbach, University of Bayreuth/University of Halle
Protein Folding
Vijay Pande, Stanford University
Seafloor Hydrothermal Systems
Organizers: Kelsey Jordahl and Hans-Peter Bunge
Speakers:
Seafloor Hydrothermal Systems
William Wilcock, University of Washington
Fluid Flow Through Seamounts: Conduits for Flow and Implications for Global Heat and Mass Flux
Robert Harris, University of Utah
Seafloor Hydrothermal Systems - Understanding Inner Space
Sven Petersen, GEOMAR Kiel
Smart Antibiotics
Organizers: Todd Klaenhammer and Annette Peters
Speakers:
Persisters and Resisters: Why Antibiotics Fail
John D. McKinney, Rockefeller University
Smart (L)antibiotics
Imke Wiedemann, University of Bonn
Looking for New Magic Bullets: Identification and Development of Bacteriophage Lysins
Raymond Schuch, Rockefeller University
Ultrafast Phenomena with Light Pulses
Organizers: Klaus Mecke and Michael Blanton
Speakers:
Ultrafast Phenomena with Light Pulses
Markus Drescher, University of Bielefeld
Physics at Relativistic Light Intensitites
Heinrich Schwoerer, University of Jena
Imaging Macromolecules with X-ray Free-elecron Lasers
Henry Chapman, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Why So Many Species? The Origin of Biodiversity
Organizers: Ilse Storch and Jessica Kissinger
Speakers:
Concepts of Biodiversity and the Biodiversity Crisis
Elisabeth Kalko, University of Ulm
Understanding Factors that Allow Biodiversity to Evolvel and to Persist
Mark D. Hunter, University of Georgia
Understanding Biodiversity Dynamics Under Human Influence
Jens Mutke, Nees-Institute for Biodiversity of Plants, Bonn