10-12 November 2000, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Andrea Ballabio, Professor, Genetics, Director, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, Naples, Italy
Friedrich von Bohlen, CEO, Lion Bioscience AG, Heidelberg, Germany
Mark Cantley, Head of Biotechnology Unit Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry of the OECD, Brussels, Belgium
Barbara Cohen, Director, Office of Communications, The Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, New York, USA
John Collinge, Imperial College, London, UK
Alan Colman, Research Director, PPL Therapeutics, Edinburgh, Scotland
Julian Davies, Emeritus Professor, Microbiology and Immunology and Chief Scientific Officer of TerraGen Discovery Inc., Vancouver, Canada
David Dickson, News Editor, Nature, UK
Carl Djerassi, Professor of Chemistry, Stanford University, USA
Stefan Flothmann, Head of Genetic Engineering Department, Greenpeace, Germany
Peter N. Goodfellow, Senior Vice-President, Discovery, SmithKline Beecham, UK
Maurizio Iaccarino, International Institute of Genetics and Biophysics, Naples, Italy
Sheila Jasanoff, Professor, Science and Public Policy, Belfer Centre for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, USA
Alastair Kent, Director, Genetic Interest Group, London, UK
Manfred Kern, Head of Global Technology Communication, Technology Strategy and Resources Unit, Aventis CropScience, Frankfurt, Germany
Julian Kinderlerer, Assistant Director, Sheffield Institute of Biotechnological Law and Ethics, UK
Charles Kurland, Professor, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Department of Molecular Evolution, BMC, Uppsala, Sweden
Christopher J. Leaver, Professor, Plant Science, Oxford University, UK
Jean-Louis Mandel, Professor, Genetics, IGBMC, Illkirch, France
Claire Marris, Researcher, French National Institute for Agricultural research, University of Versailles, France
Alexandre Mauron, Professor, Bioethics, University of Geneva Medical School, Switzerland
Benno Müller-Hill, Professor, Genetics Institute of Cologne University, Germany
Maynard Olson, Professor of Medicine and Genetics, Director of University of Washington Genome Center, USA
Viviene Parry, Writer and Broadcaster, UK
Jens Reich, Professor, Division of Genomic Informatics, Max-Delbrück Centre and Humboldt-University [Charité], Berlin, Germany
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Director, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany
Ivo Schneider, Professor, History of Science, Federal University of Munich, Germany
Orla Smith, Science Editor, Science, USA
Kari Stefánsson, President and CEO, deCode Genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland
Beate Weber, Lady Mayor of Heidelberg, Germany
Robin Weiss, Professor of Biology as Applied to Medicine , University College London, UK
Tom Wilkie, Head of Biomedical Ethics, The Wellcome Trust, UK
Lewis Wolpert, Professor of Biology as Applied to Medicine, University College London, UK
Brian Wynne, CSEC, Lancaster University, UK