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President’s Address

San Diego

18-22 February

The place for

celebrations is the

AAAS Annual

Peter C. Agre, M.D.

AAAS President, and Director, Malaria

Research Institute, Johns Hopkins

Bloomberg School of Public Health

Agre shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in

Chemistry with Roderick MacKinnon of

Rockefeller University for the discovery

of aquaporins, the key proteins that

transport water across cell membranes.

Not long after receiving the Nobel Prize, Agre began working

to extend his studies of aquaporins to malaria, addressing the

question of whether or not aquaporins could be exploited as

a means of treating or preventing the disease. Initial results

led his laboratory to focus on malaria as its primary area of

study. As director of the Malaria Research Center, he oversees

19 Hopkins faculty members who concentrate on advancing

basic science to develop new methods in malaria prevention

and treatment. Agre is a member of the National Academy of

Sciences (NAS), chair of the NAS Committee on Human Rights,

and a Fellow of AAAS and the American Academy of Arts and

Sciences. He received his M.D. degree from Johns Hopkins

University.

Meeting

• 25 Years of science education

reform through AAAS Project 2061

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50 Years of accomplishments in

higher education and academic

research by the University of

California, San Diego

Plenary Speakers

Carol W. Greider, Ph.D.

Daniel Nathans Professor and Director,

Department of Molecular Biology and

Genetics, and Professor of Oncology,

Johns Hopkins University School of

Medicine, Baltimore, MD

Title To Be Determined

Greider, one of the world’s pioneering

researchers on the structure of

telomeres, was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology

or medicine by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

along with Elizabeth Blackburn and Jack W. Szostak. While a

23-year-old graduate student at the University of California,

Berkeley, working together with Blackburn, Greider discovered

the enzyme telomerase and later, in her own lab, she cloned

its RNA component. This work laid the foundation for studies

that have linked telomerase and telomeres to human cancer

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60 Years of discovery through

support from the U.S. National

Science Foundation

•

350 Years of scientic achievement

and endeavor by the Royal Society,

the world’s oldest science academy

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And celebrate one of the greatest

inventions of the 20th century —

the laser

and age-related degenerative disease. It represents another

example of curiosity-driven basic research that has direct

medical implications. Greider obtained her Ph.D. degree in

molecular biology from UC Berkeley in 1987.

executive ofcer of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research

Institute. Her biography includes a broad range of research

interests and numerous honors and awards. Her research

has ranged from studies of ocean island volcanism in French

Polynesia to continental break-up in the Western United States

to uplift of the Tibet Plateau. She also spent 3 years with the

USGS in California working on earthquake prediction. She is a

member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of

AAAS. McNutt earned her Ph.D. degree in earth sciences at the

Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Eric S. Lander, Ph.D.

Director, The Broad Institute of MIT

and Harvard University, and Co-Chair,

President’s Council of Advisors on

Science and Technology (PCAST)

Science and Technology in the First

Year of the New Administration

Lander is widely known as one of the

driving forces behind today’s revolution

in genomics, the study of all of the genes in an organism

and how they function together in health and disease. He

also is co-chair of President Obama’s council of science

and technology advisers. PCAST is an advisory group of the

nation’s leading scientists and engineers who directly advise

the President and make policy recommendations in the

many areas where understanding of science, technology, and

innovation is key to strengthening the economy and forming

policy. Lander also was one of the principal leaders of the

Human Genome Project and is a member of both the National

Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine. He is also an

AAAS Fellow. Lander earned his B.A. degree in mathematics

from Princeton University and Ph.D. degree in mathematics

from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.

Barry C. Barish, Ph.D.

Director, Global Design Effort for the In-

ternational Linear Collider (ILC), and Linde

Professor of Physics, emeritus, California

Institute of Technology, Pasadena

Lecture Title To Be Determined

Among Barish’s noteworthy experiments

were those performed at Fermilab using

high-energy neutrino collisions. These

experiments were among the rst to

observe the weak neutral current, a linchpin of electroweak

unication theories. Today he directs the ILC, the highest

priority future project for particle physics worldwide that

promises to complement the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in

exploring the TeV energy scale. In the 1980s, Barish initiated

an ambitious international effort to build a sophisticated

underground detector which provided some key evidence that

neutrinos have mass. In 1994, he became principal investigator

of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory

(LIGO) project. As director of the LIGO Laboratory from 1997

to 2005, he led a team of scientists who built two facilities

to detect and study gravitational waves from astrophysical

sources. Barish is a member of the National Academy of

Sciences and is a Fellow of AAAS. He earned his Ph.D. degree

in experimental high energy physics at the University of

California, Berkeley.

Marcia McNutt, Ph.D.

Director, U.S. Geological Survey, and

Science Adviser to the Secretary, U.S.

Department of the Interior (invited)

Science Below the Sea

McNutt’s appointment in 2009 marked

a milestone for USGS — she is the

rst female director in the agency’s

130-year history. She heads a multi-

disciplinary organization that focuses on biology, geography,

geology, geospatial information, and water, and is dedicated

to studying the landscape, natural resources, and natural

hazards. Most recently she served as president and chief

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