Whitehead Institute Symposium XX
Biological Challenges to Humanity: Emerging and Re-emerging Pathogens

October 27-29, 2002
Kresge Auditorium, MIT Campus, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Sunday, October 27, 2002

Session I: Keynote Talks

Anthony Fauci, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health
Bioterrorism in the Spectrum of Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases
Rita Colwell, Director, National Science Foundation
Ecological View of Epidemiology

Monday, October 28, 2002

Session II - Hosts and Pathogens

Chair: Gail Cassell, Vice President, Infectious Disease, Eli Lilly

Laurie Glimcher, Harvard School of Public Health
Arming the Immune System Against Attack from Without and Within
Michel Desjardins, University of Montreal
Towards a Global Understanding of Host-pathogen Interaction Using Proteomics
Scott Hultgren, Washington University School of Medicine
Fiber Formation in Bacterial Pathogens: Role in Disease
Fotis Kafatos, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Greece
Mosquito Immunity and Interactions with the Parasite

Session III - Pathogenesis

Chair: Dyann Wirth, Harvard School of Public Health

Stanley Falkow, Stanford University School of Medicine
Why Do Some Bacteria Cause Cancer?
Peter Howley, Harvard Medical School
Viruses and Cancer
John Collinge, Institute of Neurology, University College of London
Molecular Biology of Human Prion Disease
Norman Pace, University of Colorado
Microbial Diversity and Pathogenesis

Tuesday, October 29

Session IV - Offense and Defense

Chair: Laurie Garrett, Newsday, author of  The Coming Plague

David Eisenberg, University of California, Los Angeles
Structural Genomics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
John Collier, Harvard Medical School
Anthrax: New Approaches to Treatment and Prevention
Steven Salzberg, The Institute for Genome Research
Forensic Genomics: Tracking the Source of the 2001 Anthrax Attack
Matthew Meselson, Harvard University
Biological Weapons: Protection and Prevention

Forum on Bioterrorism

Moderator: Gerry Fink, Member, Whitehead Institute

Margaret Hamburg, Vice-President for Biological Programs, Nuclear Threat Initiative
Richard Klausner, Executive Director, Global Health Program, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Last updated October 3, 2004.