Naomi Shah - Toxological effects of air quality on asmatic patients
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Can we create a predictive model for lung health based upon environmental factors?
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Dr. Anna Nekaris - Is Social Media Saving or Enslaving the Slow Loris?
/Anna Nekaris is Professor in Primate Conservation and Anthropology at Oxford Brookes University, and course tutor of their world-reknowned MSc in Primate Conservation programme
She previously conducted long-term studies of Indian and Sri Lankan slender lorises and studied the community ecology of Sri Lanka's rainforest primates, including toque macaques and purple-faced langurs. In particular she has examined the effects of fragmentation on populations throughout Sri Lanka's sparse remaining rainforests. Her current research project looks at the diversity of Asian slow lorises, both in the field and using museum specimens.
Dr. John Wikswo - The Homunculi & Lessons from Building Organs on Chips
/John Wikswo is the Gordon A. Cain University Professor at Vanderbilt University and is the founding Director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Integrative Biosystems Research and Education.
Trained as a physicist, he received his B.A. degree from the University of Virginia, and his PhD. from Stanford University. He has been on the Vanderbilt faculty since 1977. His research has included superconducting magnetometry, the measurement and modeling of cardiac, neural and gastric electric and magnetic fields, and non-destructive testing of aging aircraft.
Why are we building two new species: Homo chippus, a milliHuman, and Homo chippiens, a microHuman? Microfabricated humans-on-a-chip! Why? Because it's fun and a REAL challenge. Using the tools of physics, chemistry, engineering, physiology and molecular biology, we are exploring the unfathomable complexity that affects our development and growth and individual responses to disease, drugs, and aging.
Tom Dillehay - Building Local Capabilities in Anthropology
/Tom D. Dillehay is internationally recognized for ground-breaking and highly interdisciplinary scientific research. His research focuses mainly on human migration and the resulting transformative processes that lead to political, economic, social and technological changes among populations.
Tom D. Dillehay is internationally recognized for ground-breaking and highly interdisciplinary scientific research. He is the Rebecca Webb Wilson University Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Religion and Culture at Vanderbilt University. Many of research projects are in South America where he focuses mainly on human migration and the resulting transformative processes that lead to political, economic, social and technological changes among populations.
Tom Weiler - Neutrinos, Einstein, Time and Paradox
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Tom Weiler was born in St. Louis, grew up(wards) in the Black Hills of South Dakota, matured a bit more in Lincoln, Nebraska, and graduated from HS in Milwaukee, WI. He has a B.S. degree in physics from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. from U. Wisconsin in high-energy particle theory.
