The list of special sessions speakers includes:
Last Updated: 17/6/08

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A
Fredrik Aslund
Examiner Biotechnology, European Patent Office
The Hague, THE NETHERLANDS
Aglaia Athanassiadou
Head of the Department οf General Biology,
Faculty of Medicine, University of Patras
Patras, GREECE

Β
Lucia Banci
Professor οf Chemistry, Magnetic Resonance Center - CERM, Department
οf Chemistry, University οf Florence
Florence, ITALY
Etty Benveniste
Ph.D., Professor and Chairman, Department of Cell Biology, University
of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL, USA
Ivano Bertini
Director, CERM - Magnetic Resonance Center
Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry,
University of Florence
Florence, ITALY
Gerd Bjorhovde
Pro Rector, University of Tromso
Tromso, NORWAY
Rolf Boelens
Managing Director, SONNMR Large Scale Facility,
Section NMR Spectroscopy - SONNMR
Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Utrech
Utrecht, THE NETHERLANDS
Alexandre M.J.J. Bonvin
Associate Professor, NMR Research Group, SONNMR Large Scale
Facility, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, Utrecht University
Utrecht, THE NETHERLANDS

C
Jean Chambaz
Institute of Doctoral Training, Universitι Pierre et Marie Curie
Paris, FRANCE
Franz Chavanne
Examiner (Biotechnology), European Patent Office
Munich, GERMANY
Daniella Corda
Director for Research and Development, Head of the
Laboratory of Cell Regulation, Department of Cell Biology and Oncology,
Consorzio Mario Negri Sud
Santa Maria Imbaro (Chieti), ITALY
Manuel Costa
Life & Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS),
School Of Health Sciences, University of Minho
Braga, PORTUGAL

D
Stephen Dahms
Pres/CE0, Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Biomedical
Engineering
Santa Clarita, CA, USA
Volker Doetsch
Professor and Principal Investigator, Institute of Biophysical
Chemistry, Johann-Wolfgang University Frankfurt
Frankfurt, GERMANY

E
Keith Elliott
Head of Learning Development, University of Manchester
Manchester, UNITED KINGDOM
Susan Elrod
Biological Sciences, California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, CA, USA
Lyndon Emsley
Professor Facility Coordinator, Rhone-Alpes European Large Scale
Facility for NMR (RALF-NMR)
Villeurbanne, FRANCE 

F
Christine Foerber
Faculty of Life Sciences, HAW Hamburg
Hamburg, GERMANY 

G
Ulrich Guenther
Scientific Director, Henry Wellcome Building for Biomolecular NMR
Spectroscopy
Senior Research Fellow and Honorary Lecturer,
Biomolecular NMR Facility, University of Birmingham
Birmingham, UK
Joan J. Guinovart
Director Institute for Research in Biomedicine, University of
Barcelona (IRBB), Barcelona, SPAIN

H
Susan Hamilton
Director of Studies, Faculty of Biological and
Chemical Sciences, University of Queensland
Brisbane, AUSTRALIA
Susan Howitt
School of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
Australian National University
Canberra, AUSTRALIA

K
Dimitris Kletsas
PhD, Research Director, Institute of Biology, N.C.S.R "Demokritos"
Athens, GREECE
Mike Klymkowsky
Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental
Biology, University of Colorado at Boulder,
Boulder, CO, USA
Sofia Kouidou
Professor, Laboratory of Biological Chemistry, Medical School,
Aristotle Univeristy of Thessaloniki, GREECE
Jean-Pierre Kraehenbuhl
Director, Health Sciences e-Training Foundation (HSeT)
Epalinges sur Lausanne, SWITZERLAND
Ekaterini Kritikou
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology,
Nature Publishing Group
Cambridge, MA, USA
Richard Kurtz
Bio-Rad Laboratories
Hercules, CA, USA

L
Kaspar Locher
Professor, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics,
ETH Zurich
Zurich, SWITZERLAND
Claudio Luchinat
Professor, CERM - Center for Magnetic Resonance
University of Florence, ITALY

M 
Federico Mayor Zaragoza
President, Foundation for a Culture of Peace
SPAIN
Joel Michael
Professor, Department of Physiology, Rush Medical College,
Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA

P
Apostolos Papalois
Experimental-Research Department, Elpen Pharmaceuticals
Athens, Greece
Ruth H. Paulssen
Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Tromsø,
Tromso, NORWAY

R
Evanthia Remboutsika
Researcher,
GREECE
Mike Rogers
DG Research, Marie Curie Programme
Brussels, BELGIUM

S 
Harald Schwalbe
BMRZ, Frankfurt, GERMANY
Duane W. Sears
Professor Department of Molecular, Cellular, and
Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Heather Sears
Staff & Departmental Development Unit, University of Leeds
Leeds, UK
Giorgio Semenza
Emeritus Professor, Department of Biochemistry,
Swiss Institute of Technology (ETHZ)
Zurich, SWITZERLAND
Diamantis Sideris
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Department
of Biology, University of Athens
Athens, GREECE
Ioanna Soufleri
Journalist
Athens, GREECE
Giulio Superti-Furga
Prof., Dr., Scientific Director, CeMM Center for Molecular Medicine of
the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Vienna, AUSTRIA

V 
Jo Vandesompele
Professor Ghent University, Ghent, BELGIUM
Panagiotis Vidalis
University of Crete
Heraklion, GREECE

W 
Edward J. Wood
Professor, Centre for Bioscience, University of Leeds
Leeds, UK
Tony Wright
School of Education, University of Queensland
Brisbane, AUSTRALIA

Y
Drakoulis Yannoukakos
Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory IRRP, NCSR "Demokritos"
Athens, GREECE
Lesley Yellowlees
Professor of Inorganic Electrochemistry, Head, School of Chemistry,
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, UK

Z
Vassilis Zannis
PhD, Professor of Biochemistry, Departments of Medicine and
Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine, Center for
Advanced Biomedical Research
Boston, MA, USA