Project for Explaining the Origin of Humans
Symposium Title:
"Understanding Great Apes in the Genomic Era"
Jim Moore and Nissi Varki, University of California, San Diego, and Pascal Gagneux, Zoological Society of San Diego and University of California at
San Diego,
Program Chairs
"Opening Remarks"
Kurt Benirschke, University of California, San Diego
"Conservation of Resources"
Michael Bamshad, University of Utah
"Independent Evolution of Varied PTC Sensitivity in Humans and Chimpanzees"
Nissi Varki, University of California, San Diego
"Comparative Lectin- and Immuno-Histology of Humans and Great Apes"
Adrienne Zihlman, University of California, Santa Cruz
"Quantitative Anatomy and Locomotor Adaptations in Great Apes: Implications for Human Evolution"
Bernard Wood, George Washington University
"Comparative Anatomy of Humans and Great Apes: What About the Soft Tissues?"
Eric Green, NIH
"Using Comparative Sequencing to Elucidate Genome Function"
Elaine Mardis, Washington University in St. Louis
"cDNA Libraries and Genome Annotation: Past Impact and Future Approaches"
Ajit Varki, University of California, San Diego
"Known and Apparent Biomedical Differences Between Humans and Great Apes"
Dan Anderson, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Atlanta
"Major Pathology Findings in Great Apes at Yerkes"
Roger Aamodt, NCI, NIH (Retired), Aamodt Enterprises, MD
"Current Models for Collection, Storage, and Distribution of Human Specimens for Research"
Bruce Latimer, Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Museum of Natural History
"Networking for Rare Samples from Zoos"
Oliver Ryder, Zoological Society of San Diego
"IPBIR (Integrated Primate Biomaterials and Information Resource): An (Early) Model for Access to Primate DNAs, Cell Cultures and RNA"
Pascal Gagneux, Zoological Society of San Diego and Universityi of California, San Diego
"Scientific and Ethical Challenges for Captive Great Ape Research"
Elaine Videan, Primate Foundation of Arizona, Mesa
"The View from the Primate Foundation of Arizona"
Thomas Butler, Chimp Haven, Shreveport, Louisiana
"The View from Chimp Haven"
Rick Lee, Alamogordo Primate Facility, New Mexico
"The View from Holloman/Charles River"
Stuart Zola, Yerkes National Priimate Research Center, Atlanta
"The View from the Yerkes National Primate Research Center"
John VandeBerg, Southwest National Primate Research Center, San Antonio, Texas
"The View from the Southwest National Primate Research Center"
Ajit Varki, University of California, San Diego
"Future Outlook: What Can We All Agree On?"