1998 AAAS Annual Meeting -- Philadelphia Tentative News Briefing Schedule

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) will hold its annual meeting February 12-17 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the Philadelphia Marriott Hotel and the Philadelphia Convention Center. The meeting will launch the 150th anniversary of the Association, which was founded in 1848 in Philadelphia.

The newsroom operation will be housed on the fourth floor of the Marriott Hotel. All reporters must register and receive materials at newsroom headquarters, Room 405 in order to attend all sessions and news briefings.

President Clinton will address the meeting at 12:30 p.m. on Friday, February 13 in the Grand Ballroom at the Marriott. We anticipate that anyone with a meeting badge (including press badge) will be allowed to attend the address. Check with the newsroom headquarters in Room 405 for any updates.

The following tentative schedule of news briefings will begin at 3 p.m. on Thursday, February 12. The final schedule will be available in Room 405 of the Marriott Hotel in Philadelphia on February 12. All presentations are embargoed until the time of news briefing.

Below the title of each news briefing is listed the time, date, and location of the meeting session.

* = invited but not confirmed

THURSDAY, February 12

3 p.m. Insights Into Pain Management
(Insights to Pain and Its Management," Friday a.m., Convention Center, 2nd floor, Room 204-A)

Gary Bennett, Allegheny University of the Health Sciences

"Insights to Neuropathic Pain and Its Management"

Joyce A. DeLeo, University of Dartmouth School of Medicine

"The Role of Cytokines and Glia in Neuropathic Pain"

Frank Porreca, University of Arizona

"Physiological and Pathological Roles of Dynorphin in Pain"

4 p.m. Obesity Update
(Obesity Update: Molecular Biology of Energy Regulation and Implications for Treatment and Public Policy, Friday a.m., Convention Center, 2nd floor, Room 201-A)

M.R.C. Greenwood, University of California- Santa Cruz

"The Public Health and Policy Implications of Obesity"

Michael W. Schwartz, University of Washington and Puget Sound Veterans Affairs Health Care Systems

"Leptin and the Central Nervous System Regulation of Energy Balance"

Judith S. Stern, University of California- Davis

"New Treatments for Obesity: Public Policy Implications"

FRIDAY, February 13

8 a.m. The Rights and Wrongs of Cloning Humans
(The Rights and Wrongs of Cloning Humans, Friday a.m., Marriott, 5th Floor, Grand Ballroom E)

Ian Wilmut, Roslin Institute

"The Role of Nuclear Transfer in Medicine and Research"

Glenn McGee, University of Pennsylvania

"The Parenting of Human Clones Based on the Adoption Model"

Lori B. Andrews, Chicago- Kent School of Law

"The Legality of Cloning Humans: Bill Gates 5.0, 5.1, 6.0"

Arthur L. Caplan, University of Pennsylvania

"Does the Cloning of Humans Have a Future?"

Ronald Cole-Turner, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary

"Cloning Humans from the Perspective of the Christian Churches"

9:30 a.m. Galaxies in Collision
(Galaxies in Collision, Friday a.m., Convention Center, 2nd floor, Room 204-C)

*Mark Dickinson, Johns Hopkins University and Space Telescope Science Institute

"Galaxy Evolution in Distant Clusters and the Hubble Deep Field"

Chris Mihos, Case Western Reserve University

"Supercomputer Simulations of Colliding Galaxies: Mergers, Starbursts, and Galaxy Evolution"

Bradley Whitmore, Space Telescope Science Institute

"The Formation of Star Clusters in Merging Galaxies"

*Rosemary F.G. Wyse, Johns Hopkins University

"The Invasion of the Milky Way Galaxy"

2:30 p.m. New Frontiers in the Sun-Earth Connection
(New Frontiers in the Sun-Earth Connection, Saturday a.m., Convention Center, 1st floor, Room 111-B)

Peter A. Fox, National Center for Atmospheric Research

"Empirical Estimates of the Sun's Spectral Radiative Output"

Joanna D. Haigh, Imperial College of Science

"The Effects of Changes in Solar Ultra-Violet Emission on Climate"

Brian A. Tinsley, University of Texas- Dallas

"Solar Wind Connections to Climate: Atmospheric Electricity Affecting Cloud Microphysics"

3:30 p.m. Genome Seminar: The Influence of Genes on Behavior
(Genome Seminar: Countdown to 2000- Medicine, Saturday a.m./p.m.,, Convention Center, 2nd floor, Room 201-A)

Dean Hamer, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health

"Behavior Genomics," Saturday a.m.

*Roger Brent, Massachusetts General Hospital

"Functional Genomics," Saturday p.m.

SATURDAY, February 14

9 a.m. Communication Between Primates: Influences on Language Origins
(Darwinian Perspectives on the Origin of Language, Saturday p.m., Marriott, 5th floor, Grand Ballroom K)

Barbara J. King, College of William And Mary

"Primatology and Language Origins"

E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Georgia State University

"Bonobo Communication"

10 a.m. Advances in Cancer Therapy and Tissue Regeneration

Ellen Heber-Katz, Wistar Institute

"Genetics of Tissue Repair and Regeneration in Mice," topical lecture, Saturday, 2 p.m.., Convention Center, 2nd floor, Room 201-B

Jonathan Sessler, University of Texas, Austin

"Texaphyrin: A New Approach to Anticancer Drug Treatment," Frontiers in Physical Sciences, Saturday p.m., Convention Center, 2nd Floor, Room 204-B

11 a.m. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
(Attention and Attention Deficit, Saturday p.m., Convention Center, 2nd floor, Room 204-A)

Marcel Kinsbourne, Tufts University

"Asymmetries of Attention and ADHD"

Michael I. Posner, University of Oregon

"Pathologies of Brain Attentional Networks and ADHD"

James M. Swanson, University of California- Irvine Child Development Center

"The Clinical Phenotype and Molecular Genetics of ADHD"

noon Xenotransplantation
(Tolerance, Chimerism, and Disease Resistance in Xenotransplantation, Saturday p.m., Convention Center, 2nd floor, Room 201-C)

Jeffrey Getty, Act Up Golden Gate

"Xenotransplantation: A Patient's Perspective"

Suzanne T. Ildstad, Allegheny University of the Health Sciences

"Bone Marrow Transplantation: A Natural Form of Gene Therapy"

Jeffrey L. Platt, Duke University

"Immunological Hurdles to Xenotransplantation"

1 p.m. Gene-Diet Interactions in Coronary Heart Disease
(Gene-Diet Interactions in Coronary Heart Disease, Saturday a.m., Convention Center, 2nd floor, Room 204-A)

Jan L. Breslow, Rockefeller University

"Genes-Diet Modifiers of Artherosclerosis in the apo E Knockout Mouse"

Ronald M. Krauss, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

"Genetic Factors Influencing Cholesterol Response to Diet"

M. Rene Malinow, Oregon Regional Primate Research Center

"Genes, Vitamins, Homocyst(e)ine and Cardiovascular Disease"

Claude Bouchard, Laval University

"Genetics of the Response to Overfeeding and of Obesity"

2 p.m. Rethinking Innateness in Language

Peter F. MacNeilage, University of Texas-Austin

"How Infants Learn to Speak Words: The Frame/Content Perspective"

Brian MacWhinney, Carnegie Mellon University

"An Emergentist View of Grammatical Development"

Jeffrey L. Elman, University of California-San Diego

"Rethinking Innateness: A Connectionist Perspective"

SUNDAY, February 15

9 a.m. New Technologies for Medical Treatment: Tissue Engineering, Functional Imaging, and Heart Modeling
(Engineering a Future for Biology and Medicine, Saturday p.m., Convention Center, 1st floor, Room 109-B)

*Thomas Budinger, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

"Functional Imaging"

Cato Laurencin, Allegheny University Hospitals

"Tissue Engineering: Endless Horizons"

*Raimond Winslow, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

"Integrative Modeling of Electrical Activation and Repolarization in the Heart"

10 a.m. Language and Infants: The Biological Basis
(The Biological Basis for Language Acquisition in Human Infants, Sunday p.m., Convention Center, 1st floor, Room 113-B)

Richard N. Aslin, University of Rochester

"How Infants Find the Words in the Sound Stream"

Lila R. Gleitman, University of Pennsylvania

"How Grammar Helps Infants Discover the Word Meaning,"

Elizabeth Spelke, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"How Words Refer to the World: An Infant's Eye View"

Kenneth Wexler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"Knowledge of Grammar in Very Young Children"

Peter Jusczyk, Johns Hopkins University

(Bound to Speak: Universal Grammar in First Language Acquisition, Monday p.m., Convention Center, 1st floor, Room 133-B)
"Using Sound to Discover Structure"

11 a.m. The Tobacco Wars
C. Everett Koop (The Tobacco Agreements, Sunday p.m., Marriott, 5th floor, Grand Ballroom F)

noon The Year of the Oceans
(Ocean Sciences: Advances, Challenges, and Marine Policy Management Implications, Sunday a.m./ p.m., Convention Center, 1st floor, Room 113-C)

James D. Baker, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

"The Year of the Ocean: Launching Future Efforts in Ocean Sciences"

Marcia K. McNutt, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

"Ocean Observatories: Present Effort and Future Prospects"

1 p.m. AIDS/HIV Update
(HIV/AIDS, Sunday a.m. & p.m., Convention Center, 2nd floor, Room 201-C)

John P. Moore, Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center

"HIV Entry via DC4 and Co-Receptors: Inhibition by Antibodies and Drugs"

Stephen J. O'Brien, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health

"Chemokines, Receptors, and Their Genes As Regulators of AIDS Pathogenesis"

MONDAY, February 16

10:30 a.m. Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court of the United States
(Science, Law, and the Judiciary, Monday a.m, Marriot Grand Ballroom, 5th floor)

11 a.m. The First American: A New Perspective
(The First American: A New Perspective, Monday p.m., Convention Center, 2nd floor, Room 204-B)

Tom Dillehay, University of Kentucky

"Implications of the Monte Verde Site"

Johanna Nichols, University of California, Berkeley

"The First Four Discoveries of America"

Robson Bonnichsen, Oregon State University

"A Revaluation of the Question of the First Americans: An Evaluation of Genetic Diversity and Archeological Evidence"

noon The Future of Forensic DNA Testing
(The Future of Forensic DNA Testing: A Multidisciplinary Examination, Tuesday a.m., Convention Center, 2nd floor, Room 201-B)

Jonathan J. Koehler, University of Texas- Austin

"When Are Jurors Impressed by DNA Match Probabilities?"

William M. Shields, State University of New York

"The Validation of Novel DNA Typing Techniques for Forensic Use"

William C. Thompson, University of California- Irvine

"A Sociological Perspective on Forensic DNA Testing"

1 p.m. The Link Between Dental/Oral Health and Chronic Diseases
(Integrative Biomedicine: An Analysis of Common Mechanisms in Major Chronic Debilitating Diseases of Man, Monday p.m., Convention Center, 2nd floor, Room 203-B)

M. Ronald Glaser, Ohio State University Medical Center

"Stress, Immunity, and the Implications for Viral Disease and Wound Healing"

Mark C. Herzberg, University of Minnesota

"Oral Bacteria and Thrombotic Mechanisms in Cardiovascular Diseases"

Frank A. Scannapieco, State University of New York- Buffalo

"Mechanisms of Localized Chronic Infections in Systemic Health"

Jean Wactawski-Wende, State University of New York- Buffalo

"Factors Affecting Bone Metabolism Leading to Osteoporosis, Peridontitis, and Tooth Loss"

2 p.m. Environmental Chemicals as Endocrine Disrupters
(Environmental Chemicals as Endocrine Disrupters: Scientific Evidence and Public Policy, Monday p.m., Convention Center, 2nd floor, Room 204-A)

Theo Colborn, World Wildlife Fund

"Endocrine Disruption: A Look at Exposure and Population Effects"

Stephen H. Safe, Texas A & M University

"Endocrine-Active Agents in the Environment and Human Health"

Ellen K. Silbergeld, University of Maryland

"Endocrine Disruption: Are We Looking at the Right Effects?"

*Lynne Goldman , U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

3 p.m. Properties of the Mind
(Properties of the Mind, Tuesday a.m., Marriott, 5th floor, Grand Ballroom D)

Richard A. Andersen, California Institute of Technology

"Spatial Awareness and Action Planning in the Posterior Parietal Cortex"

Marlene Behrmann, Carnegie Mellon University

"High-Level Vision and the Brain: Insights from Neuropsychology"

Gregory McCarthy, Duke University Medical Center

"Human Brain Activation During Perception and Cognition"

TUESDAY, February 17

9 a.m. Sunscreen and Cancer- What's Happening
(Sunscreen and Skin Cancer: What's Happening, Tuesday p.m., Convention Center, 2nd floor, Room 204-C)

Honnavara N. Ananthaswamy, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

"Inhibition of UV-Induced p53 Mutations and Skin Cancer by Sunscreens"

Marianne Berwick, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

"Sunscreens and Skin Cancer: The Epidemiological Evidence"

John S. Knowland, University of Oxford, England

"Sunscreen Photochemistry and DNA Damage"

Richard B. Setlow, Brookhaven National Laboratory

"The Wavelengths in Sunlight That Are Deleterious to Human Skin"

Jouni Uitto, Thomas Jefferson University

"Molecular Assays for Solar Effects in the Sky"

10:30 a.m. Novel Insights to Cognitive Learning
(Alternate Mechanisms for Motor and Visuospatial Cognition: Stone-Age to Present, Tuesday p.m., Convention Center, 2nd floor, Room 203-A)

Michael L. Commons, Harvard Medical School

"Emotional Learning in Infants: A Cross-Cultural Examination"

Valerie Beller Domesick, Chestnut Hill, MA

"Subcortical Circuitry Involved in Cognitive, Spatial, and Motor Processing"

Martin F. Gardiner, Brown University

"Children's Training in Arts and Music Implicitly Improves Cognitive Functioning"

Barbara J. Knowlton, University of California, Los Angeles

"Habit Learning Mediated by the Subcortical Basal Ganglia"

Anneliese A. Pontius, Harvard Medical School

"Spatial Test Performances by Stone-Age Peoples Implicate Preferential Subcortical Processing"