the evolution of sensation and sensory networks
John Carlson (Yale): Odor reception and coding in Drosophila
Bernd Fritzsch (Creighton): From UnCAS to vertebrate hearing: molecular conservation and novelties in the vertebrate ear.
Walter Gehring (Basel): Development and evolution of eyes and photoreceptors
William Jeffery (Maryland): Eye degeneration in cavefish: the blind spot in Darwin's theory of natural selection.
Steve Kay (Scripps): Construction and evolution of circadian clocks
Dan-E Nilsson (Lund): Evolution of vision: lessons from an exotic system.
Richard Vogt (South Carolina): Olfactory phenotypes; evolution and development