SPEAKER'S ABSTRACTS

Ballabio Andrea	Learning Biology from the study of Genetic Diseases.
Barbujani Guido	Racial catalogs and human biological diversity.
Bevan Michael	Crop Plant Genomics for Food Security.
Boncinelli Edoardo	Genes and Genomes through time.
Bonnet Dominique	Cancer Stem Cells: Getting to the Root of Cancer.
Bordignon Claudio	Gene Therapy for congenital and acquired disorders: promoting the progress of clinical applications.
Bowler Chris	Genomes from the Sea.
Brüstle Oliver	Unleashing the Genome: Maintaining, Reinstating and Exploiting Pluripotency
Bucchi Massimiano	Bioethics in public perception and media coverage.
Cavalli Sforza Luigi Luca	Human evolution between nature and culture.
Cossu Giulio	Stem cells: replacement therapy
Di Fiore Pier Paolo	Molecular medicine: a possible future?
Galli Enrica	The diversity of the microbial world: a challenge for the future.
Hall Timothy	Genomics Research in European Programmes.
Harris John	Bioethics and the Future of Science.
Haseltine William	The Future of DNA Technology: Transforming the Material world.
Livingston David	Linkages Between Genome Disorder and Breast Cancer Development.
Pelicci Pier Giuseppe	Longevity Genomics.
Ponder Bruce	Common genetic variants, risk, and applications in cancer.
Sanchez Sorondo Marcelo	Truth, Good and Justice in Scientific Activities.
Santosuosso Amedeo	Should privacy be abolished in genetics?
Tonelli Chiara	Nutritionally improved crops to alleviate malnutrition and chronic diseases.
van Heyningen Veronica	New insights into the mechanisms of human disease.
Venter J. Craig	Synthetic life.
Veronesi Umberto	Biomolecular mechanisms of cancer: the clinical perspective.
Weinstock George M.	Next Generation Microbial Genomics: The Human Microbiome Project.
Yarden Yosef	The Era of Genome-based Targeted Therapy of Cancer.

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