2008 Program and Audio Presentations

Cryptography and Computer Security	Multiple Systems in Understanding Addiction
Ever closer to Pandora's Box: Zoonotic Transmission of Viruses to Humans	Quantum Gravity
Extrasolar Planets	Suspended Animation, Immortality, Regeneration
Food and Fuel	The Expanding Frontier of Nucleic Acids Chemistry and Biology

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Cryptography and Computer Security
Organizer: Chris Jermaine, University of Florida 

CHAIR:  Cryptography and Computer Security Anna Lysyanskaya, Brown University	-Abstract  -Presentation
SPEAKER:  Adventures in Electronic Voting Research Dan Wallach, Rice University	-Abstract  -Presentation
SPEAKER:  Functional Encryption: Beyond Public Key Cryptography Brent Waters, SRI International:	-Abstract  -Presentation

Ever closer to Pandora’s box: Zoonotic Transmission of Viruses to Humans
Organizer: Vanessa Sperandio, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

CHAIR: The Evolution of Viral Emergence Eddie C. Holmes, Pennsylvania State University	-Abstract  -Presentation
SPEAKER: Making and breaking viral pandemics: an evolutionary perspective Michael Worobey, University of Arizona	-Abstract  -Presentation
SPEAKER: Receptors, Entry Proteins and Zoonosis Michael Farzan, Harvard University	-Presentation

Extrasolar Planets
Organizer: Karen Meech, University of Hawaii at Manoa

CHAIR: Extrasolar Planets Victoria Meadows, University of Washington	-Abstract  -Presentation
SPEAKER:  Now that we've found them:  Characterizing planets around other stars Jonathan Fortney, University of California, Santa Cruz	-Abstract  -Presentation
SPEAKER: Photosynthesis and Astrobiology: Color Limits for Life Adapted to Others Stars and Atmospheres Nancy Kiang, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies	-Abstract  -Presentation

Food and Fuel
Organizer: Hallie Eakin, Arizona State University

CHAIR: Food and Fuel Hallie Eakin, Arizona State University
SPEAKER:  The Biofuels Boom: Promise or Peril for Tropical Forests? Holly K. Gibbs, University of Wisconsin-Madison	-Abstract  -Presentation
SPEAKER:  Frontiers of Biofuel Science Anthony F. Michaels, Proteus Environmental Technologies	-Abstract  -Presentation

Multiple Systems in Understanding Addiction
Organizers: Andy Dillin, Salk Institute for Biological Sciences and Wynne Schiffer, Brookhaven National Laboratory 

CHAIR: Multiple Systems in Understanding Addiction Michael A. Nader, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
SPEAKER: G-Protein Coupled Receptor Trafficking in Drug Abuse Jennifer Whistler, University of California, San Francisco	-Presentation
SPEAKER: Substance abuse and reinforcement learning Paul E. M. Phillips, University of Washington	-Abstract  -Presentation

Quantum Gravity
Organizer: Mark Trodden, Syracuse University

CHAIR: Quantum Gravity Basics Donald Marolf, University of California, Santa Barbara	-Abstract  -Presentation
SPEAKER: Light from the Early Universe and Quantum effects in Gravity Eva Silverstein, Stanford University	-Abstract  -Presentation
SPEAKER: An invitation to quantum gravity Laurent Freidel, Perimeter Institute	-Abstract  -Presentation

Suspended Animation, Immortality, Regeneration
Organizer: Andy Dillin, Salk Institute for Biological Sciences

CHAIR: Dying Young As Late As Possible: planarians, Regeneration and Stem Cells Alejandro Sanchez, University of Utah	-Presentation
SPEAKER: Germ cell immortality in C. elegans Shawn Ahmed, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	-Abstract  -Presentation
SPEAKER:  Mechanisms Regulating Suspended Animation in Caenorhabditis elegans Pam Padilla, University of North Texas	-Abstract  -Presentation