Speakers and chairmen's profiles & abstracts

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