| Name
and Affiliation | Scientific Interest | email |
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Dr. Enrique Amaya
The Healing Foundation Centre, Manchester, UK |
Functional genomics, molecular and cellular basis of tissue repair and regeneration |
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Dr. Chris
Amemiya
Virginia Mason Research Center | Genome evolution |
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Dr. V. Gregory
Chinchar
Univ. of Mississippi
Medical Center | Comparative studies of
virus/host interactions in lower vertebrates | | |
Dr. James Collins
Chair, Dept. Biology
Univ. of Arizona | Ecology; amphibian
declines | | |
Dr. Max Cooper
Howard Hughes Medical
Institute Univ. Alabama | Phylogenetic Origin of
Specific Adaptive Immunity | | |
Dr. Igor Dawid
NIH, Bethesda | Early development,
embryogenesis | | |
| Dr. Brian Dixon |
Ecology; amphibian
declines | | |
Dr. Louis Du Pasquier
Basel University,
President of the ISDCI | Evolution of the
lymphocyte receptors | | |
Ben Evans
McMaster University, Hamilton, CA |
Speciation and Evolutionary genetics of duplicate genes |
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Dr. Todd Evans
Albert Einstein College
of Medicine NY | Development of
hematopoietic cells and the cardiovascular system. | | |
Matthew Fisher
Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, London, UK |
Evolution of infectious |
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Dr. Martin Flajnik
Univ. of Maryland | Evolution of MHC | | |
Jean-Pol Frippiat
Université
Henri Poincaré, Nancy, France | Comparative Immunology | | |
Dr. John Horton
Univ. of Durham U.K | Developmental
immunology. Thymus differentiation, NK ontogeny | | |
Dr. Ellen Hsu
SUNY Downstate,
Brooklyn, NY | Ontogeny and evolution
of Ig gene rearrangement |
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Dr. Yumi
Izutsu
Niigata University,
Japan | Metamorphosis and
immunity | | |
Dr. Chiaki
Katagiri
Hokkaido Univ. Sapporo,
Japan | T cell development and
differentiation | | |
Kevin S. Kinney
De Pauw
University,
Greencastle, IN | Neural-immune
interactions in Xenopus | | |
Dr. Raymond E. Kuhn
Wake Forest University, NC |
Amphibian responses to Chytrid |
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Dr. Gary W. Litman
Director, Molecular
Genetics,
All Children's Hospital, Univ. South Florida | Molecular
and genomic
evolution of lymphocyte receptors | | |
Dr. Brad G. Magor
Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada | Comparative
study of
mechanisms preventing autoimmunity | | |
Paul Mead
St
Jude Children's Research Hospital Memphis, TN | Hematopoiesis
by transgenesis and mutagenesis in Xenopus | | |
Dr. Barbara Nikolajczyk
Boston University
School of Medicine | Lymphopoiesis, B cell
development | | |
Dr. Gregory D.
Maniero,
Stonehill College,
Easton MA | Amphibian anti-viral
response | | |
Pawell Michalak,
Biology Department,
University of Texas at Arlington | comparative
genomics, taxonomy | | |
Dr Yuko Ohta
University of Maryland | Evolution of Immune Genes |
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Dr Donald B. Palmer
Royal Veterinary
College, London, UK | Thymic neuropeptide
expression | |
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Dr.
David Papermaster
Univ. Connecticut
Health Science Center | Protein expression and
trafficking in photoreceptors, retinal disintegration using X. laevis
transgenic model | | |
Nicolas Pollet
Laboratoire
Développement et Evolution
CNRS UMR 8080 Université
Paris-Sud Orsay, France
| Transgenesis
and Amphibian Genetics
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Dr. Elizabeth.Repasky
Roswell Park Memorial
Cancer Institute | Cancer Immunotherapy by
hyperthermia | | |
Dr. Louise Rollins-Smith
Vanderbilt Univ. Med
Center | Ontogeny of the immune
system, amphibian decline, skin peptides | | |
Dr. Ellen
Rothenberg
Cal Tech | T cell lineage analysis | | |
David Shechter
The Rockefeller University, NY |
Function of histone proteins |
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Dr. Andrew Storfer
Washington State Univ.,
Pullman, WA | amphibian
declines | | |
Dr. Lisa Steiner
MIT | Evolution of Ig gene
recombination, Rag genes in fish and Xenopus | | |
Dr. Alexander Taranin
Inst. Cytology
& Genetics, Novosibirsk, Russia | Evolution
of Fc and NK
receptors families | | |
Dr. Bruce Waldman
Univ. Canterbury, New
Zealand | Co-evolution of social
behavior and immunity | | |
