Nancy Bonini
Department of Biology
University of Pennsylvania
http://www.bio.upenn.edu/faculty/bonini/

Studies human neurodegenerative diseases using the
Drosophila model system and the role of the eyes absent gene in eye formation

Martin Kreitman
Department of Ecology and Evolution
University of Chicago
http://pondside.uchicago.edu/ecol-evol/faculty/kreitman_m.html

Studies molecular evolution in model systems (Drosophila species
and Arabidopsis thaliana) and humans

Kevin Struhl
Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Harvard Medical School
http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dms/bbs/fac/struhl.html

Studies:-
• Transcriptional mechanisms in yeast
• Relationship between chromatin structure and gene expression
• Functional genomics of mammalian cells investigating the pattern of binding for transcription factors along the length of whole chromosomes

Alan Templeton
Department of Genetics/Department of Biology
Washington University in St. Louis
http://www.biology.wustl.edu/faculty/templeton/

Uses molecular evolutionary and statistical approached to problems including human heart disease, the evolution of humans and of HIV. Conservation genetics.

Chris Cobbett
Department of Genetics
University of Melbourne
http://www.genetics.unimelb.edu.au/Cobbett/CC.html

Heavy metal tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana

Sue Forrest
Director
Australian Genome Research Facility
http://www.agrf.org.au/

Research interests in genotyping and genomics

Joan Kelly
School of Molecular and Biomedical Science
Adelaide University
http://www.mbs.adelaide.edu.au/people/genetics/jkelle01.html

Joan will deliver the M.J.D. White Address, based on her research on the regulation of gene expression in filamentous fungi.

John Oakeshott
CSIRO Entomology, Canberra
http://www.ento.csiro.au/staffhome/joakeshott.html

In studying enzymes useful for the bioremediation of polluted environments John Oakeshott’s research has revealed much about functional constraints in molecular evolution

Brandon Wainwright
Institute of Molecular Bioscience
The University of Queensland
http://www.imb.uq.edu.au/?id=11673

Studies the molecular genetics of human diseases including cystic fibrosis and cancer