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2003 Program and Audio Presentations

Opening Ceremony

Bruce Alberts President National Academy of Sciences	Presentation
Wm. A. Wulf President National Academy of Engineering	Presentation
Harvey Fineberg President Institute of Medicine	Presentation
Richard N. Foster Board Member W.M. Keck Foundation	Presentation
Marc Kirschner Chair NAKFI Signaling Steering Committee	Presentation

Early Sensory Processing

Organizer: Terrence Sejnowski Professor and Head of the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory The Salk Institute	Presentation
Moderator: Linda Buck Full Member, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Affiliate Professor, University of Washington
Speakers: Network Dynamics and Olfaction Gilles Laurent Professor, Department of Biology California Institute of TechnologyPresentation	Abstract  Presentation
Principles of Image Representation in Visual Cortex Bruno Olshausen Associate Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior University of California at Davis/Redwood Neuroscience Institute	Abstract  Presentation

Funding Interdisciplinary Research

Organizer/Moderator: Ellie Ehrenfeld Chief, Picornavirus Replication Section National Institutes of Health	Presentation
Speakers: Enriqueta Bond President Burroughs Wellcome Fund	Presentation
John Linehan Vice President Whitaker Foundation	Presentation
Bruce Hamilton Division Director, Bioengineering and Environmental Systems The National Science Foundation	Presentation

Communication Awards Presentation and Panel

Moderator: William Skane Executive Director, Office of News and Public Information The National Academies	Presentation
Presenter: Bruce Alberts, President, National Academy of Sciences Winner TV/Radio: Joe Palca Correspondent National Public Radio	Abstract  Presentation
Presenter: Wm. A. Wulf, President, National Academy of Engineering Winner Newspaper/Magazine: Andrew Revkin Science Reporter The New York Times	Abstract  Presentation
Presenter: Harvey Fineberg, President, Institute of Medicine Winner Books: Carl Safina Author Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival	Abstract  Presentation

Organizer: John Doyle Professor, Department of Computer Science California Institute of Technology
Speaker: David Botstein Professor, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics Princeton University	Presentation

Feedback Control and the Generation of Oscillatory and Bistable Behavior

Organizer: Erin O’Shea Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics University of California at San Francisco
Moderator: Jim Ferrell Professor, School of Medicine Stanford University	Presentation
Speakers: Regulatory Mechanisms Underlying Cellular Rhythms Albert Goldbeter Professor, Unit of Theoretical Chronobiology University of Brussels, Belgium	Abstract  Presentation
Engineered Gene Circuits - A Closet Reductionist’s Approach to Systems Biology Jeff Hasty Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering University of California at San Diego	Abstract  Presentation

Temporal Organization in Living Systems

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