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Michael P. Brenner, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Kavli Institute for Bionano Science and Technology, Harvard University, "The Shape of Bird Beaks"
Naama Brenner, department of chemical engineering, The Lorry I. Lokey Interdisciplinary Center for Life Sciences and Engineering, Laboratory of Network Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, "Universality of Scaling in Biological Fluctuations"
Leonid Mirny, Harvard-MIT, Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "The Genome Folding Problem"
L. Mahadevan, department of organismic and evolutionary biology and department of physics, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, "On Growth and Form: Problems and Prospects"