Pop!Tech 9
Oct. 19-22, 2005

Seeing What’s There
Graham Flint
Bob Hanner

It’s Alive!
Norman Packard
Theo Jansen

Mind and Body
Todd Kuiken
Jesse Sullivan
Ze Frank

Explorer’s Club
Peter Diamandis
Marcia McNutt
Carolyn Porco

People, Place, and Planet
Mark Lynas

East Meets West
Oded Shenkar
Rebecca MacKinnon

Serious Games
Edward Castronova
Ivan Marovic
Steven Berlin Johnson
Davy Rothbart

The Participation Revolution
Nicholas Negroponte
Yochai Benkler
Ingo Gunther

Habitats
Suketu Mehta
Robert Neuwirth

Big Fixes
Cameron Sinclair
Bunker Roy
Neil Gershenfeld

The Future of Ideas
Sam Harris
Susan Blackmore

What Do We Know?
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Robert Trivers

Summary
Bob Metcalfe

The Future of Africa
Panel Discussion

Bob Hanner is the Associate Director for the Canadian Barcode of Life Network and is on faculty at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Bob is also Chair of the Database Working Group for the Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL), an international initiative to implement DNA barcoding for species identification.

Bob was formerly the Scientific Program Director of the Coriell Cell Repositories at the Coriell Institute for Medical Research where he demonstrated DNA Barcoding to be an essential quality assurance tool for the Institute's nonhuman biomaterial collections, which are widely used in genetic research. Prior to that, Bob created the Ambrose Monell Collection for Molecular and Microbial Research at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City (as featured in the New York Times and Natural History magazine).

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He has also served as President of the International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER) and is currently an editor for Cell Preservation Technology, the official journal of ISBER. He has published numerous articles on the value, compilation and use of biological materials for molecular, genetic, and taxonomic research.

http://ib.cbs.uoguelph.ca/faculty/faculty_hanner.shtml