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Dr. Axel spoke at the "embomeeting" last month. Details of it:

"Leading scientists line up for The EMBO Meeting 2011
¦Susan Lindquist, 2010 winner of the US National Medal of Science – Lamarck redux: Prions, Hsp90 and the inheritance of environmentally acquired trait
¦Giacomo Rizzolatti, discoverer of mirror neurons – Understanding actions, intentions and emotions of others
¦Richard Axel, winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology – Representations of olfactory information in higher cortical centres
¦Mark Pagel, evolutionary theorist – Human language as a culturally transmitted replicator
¦Austria Center Vienna, 10 – 13 September 2011
HEIDELBERG, Germany, 5 September 2011 – Helga Nowotny, President of the European Research Council, will open The EMBO Meeting 2011 this coming Saturday 10 September at the Austria Center Vienna. The annual conference is set to highlight the latest life science advances made in the laboratories of more than 120 of the world's leading researchers."

http://2011.the-embo-meeting.org/mediacentre/advisories.html

Dr. Axel's bio at the embo meeting:

"Richard Axel is University Professor and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, US. He obtained an A.B. from Columbia College and an M.D. from Johns Hopkins Medical School. In earlier studies, Richard Axel and his colleagues, Michael Wigler & Saul Silverstein developed gene transfer techniques that permit the introduction of virtually any gene into any cell. These studies not only allowed for a novel approach to isolate genes but also provided a detailed analysis of how they worked. At the same time, these experiments allowed for the production of an increasingly large number of clinically important proteins. These studies also led to the isolation and functional analysis of a gene for the lymphocyte surface protein, CD4, the cellular receptor for the AIDS virus, HIV.

He then began to apply molecular biology to problems in neuroscience with the expectation that genetics could interface with neuroscience to approach the tenuous relationship between genes, behaviour and perception. His studies on the logic of the sense of smell revealed over a thousand genes involved in the recognition of odours and provided insight into how genes shape our perception of the sensory environment.

His current work centres on how the recognition of odours is translated into an internal representation of sensory quality in the brain and how this representation leads to meaningful thoughts and behaviour. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among his many honours are the Eli Lilly Award in biological chemistry, the Richard Lounsbery Award from the National Academy of Sciences, the Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for distinguished achievement in neuroscience research, the Gairdner Foundation International Award, and the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine."