15th German-American Symposium
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung – U.S. National Academy of Sciences
June 4-7, 2009
Irvine, California
Sessions:
- The Neurobiology of Emotion
- Nanotechnology: Dream or Reality?
- Ancient DNA from Extinct Taxa
- Extreme Objects in the Universe
- Immunity: A Question of “Self vs. Non-self”
- Reduction of Complex Systems
- Aeolian Dust - Generation, Transport, and its Impacts on Climate and Biogeochemistry
- Glycobiology
The Neurobiology of Emotion
Organizers: Alexander Gail and Sarah Woolley
Introductory Speaker:
Neural Mechanisms of Fear Memory
Glenn Schafe, Yale University
Speakers:
To fear or not to fear: where and how in the brain
Mohammed Milad, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital
As fear goes by – principles of fear extinction
Carsten Wotjak, Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry, Munich
Nanotechnology: Dream or Reality?
Organizers: Stefanie Dehnen and Aaron Dinner
Introductory Speaker:
Are we there yet? The road to a technology based on nanoscience.
Teri Odom, Northwestern University
Speakers:
“T-Pharmacytes”: Combining nanotechnology with cell therapy in the battle against cancer
Darrell Irvine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Nanotechnology - Dream or Reality": molecules as tailormade nanoscale functional units
Marcel Mayor, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
Ancient DNA from Extinct Taxa
Organizers: Jürgen Geist and Hopi Hoekstra
Introductory Speaker:
Ancient DNA – what can we learn from a dead molecule of life?
Michael Hofreiter, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Speakers:
Tracing evolution through space and time
Beth Shapiro, The Pennsylvania State University
Recent human evolution as revealed by the Neandertal genome
Richard Edward Green, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Extreme Objects in the Universe
Organizers: Mark Devlin and Regine von Klitzig
Introductory Speaker:
Extreme Objects in the Universe
Vicky Kalogera, Northwestern University
Speakers:
Understanding the highest-energy particles in the Universe with the Pierre Auger Observatory
Markus Risse, Bergische Universität Wuppertal
Neutron stars and black holes: The physics of the extremely dense
Scott Hughes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Immunity: A Question of “Self vs. Non-Self”
Organizers: Thomas Demarse and Dirk Haller
Introductory Speaker:
Immune functions in tumor surveillance and autoimmunity
Roland Lang, University of Erlangen
Speakers:
Self-control by natural killer cells: the trail between tissue remodeling, tumor surveillance and autoimmunity
Andreas Diefenbach, University of Freiburg
Autoimmunity triggered by infection
Jochen Mattner, Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Reduction of Complex Systems
Organizers: Stefan Bornholdt and Elaine Chew
Introductory Speaker:
Reduction of Complex Systems
Bernd Blasius,Universität Oldenburg
Speakers:
New Perspectives on Global Human Mobility: On the brink of real-time epidemic forecasts
Dirk Brockmann, Northwestern University
Structure in Networks: Chances and Limitations of Data-Driven Approaches
Joerg Reichardt, Universität Würzburg
Aeolian Dust - Generation, Transport, and its Impacts on Climate and Biogeochemistry
Organizers: Manuel Lerdau and Gergor Rehder
Introductory Speaker:
Interactions of Dust and Climate
Ina Tegen, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research
Speakers:
Windblown Desert Dust: A Climate Wildcard
Charles S. Zender, University of California, Irvine
Past and Present Saharan dust: a marine perspective
Jan-Berend Stuut, University of Bremen
Glycobiology
Organizers: Günter Meister and Ruth Ley
Introductory Speaker:
Glycobiology – The Life Science of Glycans
Pascal Gagneux, University of California, San Diego
Speakers:
Chemoenzymatic Approaches for Chemical Glycobiology
Xi Chen, University of California, Davis
Carbohydrate-based Vaccination strategy to fight parasitic disease
Faustin Kamena, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam