acknowledgements
we thank the following departments and committees for their generous support of dbec 2005:
The Department of Organismal Biology & Anatomy
The Morris Fishbein Center for the History of Science & Medicine
The Committee on Developmental Biology
The Department of Human Genetics
The Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology
The Division of Biological Sciences
The Institute of Molecular Pediatric Sciences
The Department of the Geophysical Sciences
The Committee on Evolutionary Biology
The NIH Molecular and Cellular Biology Training Grant
The NIH Genetics and Regulation Training Grant
The Committee on Genetics
The Committee on Neurobiology
the following people kindly allowed the use of their images:
Steve Kay, William Cresko, and Adam Bahrami
we thank the following individuals for their labor, mental and manual, in helping the conference to run smoothly:
Roman Arguello, Holly Bland, Alexa Bontrager, Jake Byrnes, Jie Chen, Don Conrad, Chris DiTeresi, JJ Emerson, Paul Ingram, Dave Jeffers, Sara Kriksciun, Julie Feder, Ali Fenstermaker, Adam Franssen, Conrad Gilliam, Bruce Howng, Alex Hume, Imogen Hurley, Leslie King, Melissa Lehti-Shiu, Susan Lott, Anya Lyuksyutova, Dana MacGregor, Rich Martin, Kari McDonough, Virginia Miller, Roberta Mims, Stephanie Mohr, Margarida Moreira, Geoff Morris, Jaitra Murthy, Liseth Parra, Susan Pei, Jerry Pinka, Jake Reimer, Josh Rest, Bob Richards, Monica Rohrschneider, Jessica Schulte, Josh Shapiro, Becky Shearman, Meng-shin Shiao, Shin-han Shiu, Lisa Snider, Katinka Vigh, Andie Ward, Bill Wimsatt, Kara Yeagy, Toshio Yoshimatsu
faculty advisors
Vicky Prince
Professor and Chair
Committee on Developmental Biology
Neil Shubin
Professor and Chair
Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy
organizers
Todd Martin
Committee on Genetics
tmmartin@uchicago.edu
Alex Wolf
Committee on Developmental Biology
alexw@uchicago.edu