Speakers

  • Miguel Nicolelis

    Professor of neurobiology, biomedical engineering and psychological and brain sciences; co-director, Center for Neuroengineering, Duke University Medical Center

    Miguel Nicolelis is a neurophysiologist and physician best known for his work using brain-machine interfaces and “neuroprosthetics” to restore motor function to paraplegics, amputees and others who have lost function to disease or injury. In addition to this work, which has been widely honored and reported in US and international media, his research aims to develop an integrative approach to neurological and psychiatric disorders.

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  • Stephanie Pappas

    Reporter, Live Science

    Stephanie Pappas is a science writer for LiveScience.com, where she focuses on psychology and neuroscience but can often be found writing about climate change, space, and doomsday believers. She is a graduate of the UC Santa Cruz science writing program and worked as a freelancer before joining the LiveScience staff. Stephanie lives in Denver.

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  • Annie Murphy Paul

    Freelance

    Annie Murphy Paul, contributing writer at Time magazine, columnist at Time.com, and the author of Origins and the forthcoming “Brilliant: The New Science of Smart.”

  • Elizabeth Pennisi

    Writer, Science magazine

  • Kenneth J. Piller

    Adjunct research associate professor of biology, president and co-founder, University of North Carolina at Charlotte and SoyMeds Inc.

    Kenneth Piller received his PhD in plant molecular biology from the University of Illinois-Chicago and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in parasitology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Before relocating to Charlotte, NC, in 2001, he worked at Monsanto for four years, serving as team leader for projects in the biotech pipeline. After joining the Department of Biology at UNC-Charlotte as a Research Associate Professor, Piller co-founded SoyMeds, Inc. with Ken Bost.

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  • Eric A. Powell

    Senior editor, Discover magazine

    Eric A. Powell is a senior editor at Discover magazine. Previously, he was deputy editor at Archaeology, where he edited a piece that won the James Beard Award for Best Magazine Feature Writing With Recipes.

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  • Kendall Powell

    Freelance

    Kendall Powell is a freelance science writer based near Denver, Colorado, who writes about everything in biology's realm, from molecules to maternity. She writes for Nature, Naturejobs, Science Careers, the HHMI Bulletin and the Los Angeles Times, among others. She's also the founder of SciLance, an online community of freelance writers who collectively wrote The Science Writer's Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Pitch, Publish and Prosper in the Digital Age to be published by Da Capo Press in April 2013.

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  • Tabitha M. Powledge

    Science and Medical Writer and Editor (freelance)

    Tabitha M. Powledge is a long-time freelance science and medical writer and editor, founding editor of The Scientist, and author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Microbiology. She writes On Science Blogs This Week, which appears Fridays at https://www.nasw.org/user/157/blog.

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  • David Quammen

    Science journalist and author

    David Quammen is a science journalist and author whose twelve books include The Song of the Dodo, Natural Acts, and The Reluctant Mr. Darwin. He’s a three-time recipient of the National Magazine Award, a longtime contributor to Harper’s, Outside, The New York Times Book Review, and other magazines, and a Contributing Writer for National Geographic. In 2012 he received the Stephen Jay Gould Award from the Society for the Study of Evolution. His new book is Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic, to be published by W. W. Norton in October.

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  • Paul Raeburn

    Freelance

    Paul Raeburn, a regular contributor to Discover, a blogger at Psychology Today, media critic at the Knight Science Journalism Tracker, and the author of “Do Fathers Matter? The New Science of Fatherhood,” to be published for Father's Day, 2013.

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