IHMC Evening Lectures

Dr. Leinen’s background as a geologist and oceanographer combined to focus her research on changes in the ocean over time. She has studied both the long-term and short-term history of the oceans and their relationship to climate. In January of this year she chaired a national conference on Our Changing Oceans in Washington DC. She will discuss some of the changes that oceanographers are seeing in the coastal ocean and open ocean and will talk about their implications for Florida. Dr. Margaret Leinen is the Associate Provost for Marine and Environmental Initiatives at Florida Atlantic University and Executive Director of the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute. Dr. Leinen is also a well-known researcher in paleooceanography and paleo-climatology. Her work focuses on ocean sediments and their relationship to global biogeochemical cycles and the history of the Earth’s ocean and climate. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers. Dr. Leinen served as Assistant Director for Geosciences at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) between 2000 and 2007. Leinen also directed NSF’s Environmental Research and Education (ERE) efforts, which coordinated the portfolio of environmental programs across NSF. Leinen has also served as Chair of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and Vice Chair of the later Climate Change Science Program, the interagency program responsible for coordinating federal climate change research. She co-chaired the National Science and Technology Council’s Joint Subcommittee on Ocean Science and Technology, at which she had a leadership role in the development of the Ocean Research Priorities Plan for the US government. Dr. Leinen is the Past-Chair of the Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Science Section of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science. She is a past president of The Oceanography Society. She serves on the Board of the American Geophysical Union, as well as the boards of the National Council for Science and the Environment and the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). Dr. Leinen is also the Vice-Chair of the Research Board of Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative. This board is responsible for the $500M research fund provided by BP to fund research at academic institutions to understand the effects of the Deepwater Horizon incident and the potential associated impact on the environment and public health. Dr. Leinen is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Geological Society of America and has been awarded Distinguished Alumni Awards from all three of the universities she attended as a student, University of Illinois, Oregon State University and University of Rhode Island.

Tom Murphy is a senior resident fellow of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and the Klingbeil Family Chair for urban development. Murphy, former mayor of Pittsburgh, specializes in public policy, retail/urban entertainment, transportation/ infrastructure, housing, real estate finance and environmental issues. Since January 2006, Murphy has served as ULI’s Gulf Coast liaison, helping to coordinate with the leadership of New Orleans and the public to advance the implementation of rebuilding recommendations. He is working with leadership in hurricane-impacted areas in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida to identify areas appropriate for ULI involvement. Prior to his joining ULI, Murphy served three terms as the mayor of Pittsburgh, from January 1994 through December 2005. During that time, he initiated a public-private partnership strategy that leveraged more than $4.5 billion in economic development in Pittsburgh. Murphy led efforts to secure and oversee $1 billion in funding for the development of two professional sports facilities, and a new convention center that is the largest certified green building in the United States. He developed strategic partnerships to transform more than 1,000 acres of blighted, abandoned industrial properties into new commercial, residential, retail and public uses; and he oversaw the development of more than 25 miles of new riverfront trails and urban green space. From 1979 through 1993, Murphy served eight terms in the Pennsylvania State General Assembly House of Representatives. Murphy served in the Peace Corps in Paraguay from 1970 through 1972. He is a 1993 graduate of the New Mayors Program offered by Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He holds a masters of science degree in urban studies from Hunter College, and a bachelor of science degree in biology and chemistry from John Carroll University.

We circle the sun amid a swarm of asteroids and comets whose orbits approach or cross Earth’s. Termed Near-Earth Objects (NEOs), these relics of planetary formation pose a considerable long-term impact hazard to our planet. Recent impacts on Jupiter and atmospheric airbursts here, coupled with geologic evidence of the nearly 200 impact scars discovered on Earth, underline the potential for a future impact catastrophe. Our growing detection capabilities and an increase in NASA’s search funding promise explosive growth in the number of known NEOs, from about 7,000 today to more than 100,000 within the decade. Some of these objects will confront us with sufficiently worrisome impact probabilities that we may choose to mount a deflection mission. Deflection technologies are available, but lagging behind are decision-making agreements to enable international response and prompt action. The NEO population also presents the U.S. space effort with an opportunity for future human exploration. Astronaut explorers can reach the most accessible NEOs in round trips of several months. These ancient, intriguing objects offer a scientific bonanza as well as invaluable space resources for economic development of space. These stepping stones to Mars will challenge our abilities and commitment, but exploring them offers us a path to continued leadership in space and the knowledge needed to safeguard our civilization. Thomas D. Jones, PhD is a veteran NASA astronaut, scientist, speaker, author, and consultant. He holds a doctorate in planetary sciences, and in more than eleven years with NASA, flew on four space shuttle missions to Earth orbit. In 2001, Dr. Jones led three spacewalks to install the centerpiece of the International Space Station, the American Destiny laboratory. He has been privileged to spend fifty-three days working and living in space. Tom is a Distinguished Graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy. He piloted B-52D strategic bombers, studied asteroids for NASA, engineered intelligence-gathering systems for the CIA, and helped develop advanced mission concepts to explore the solar system prior to joining NASA’s astronaut corps. Tom writes frequently about space exploration and aviation history in magazines such as Air and Space Smithsonian, Aerospace America, and Popular Mechanics. Tom’s book Sky Walking: An Astronaut’s Memoir, published in 2006 by Smithsonian Books-Collins, was selected by The Wall Street Journal as one of its “Five Best” books about space. Tom’s newest title, Hell Hawks!, a true story of an aerial band of brothers in WWII, was published by Zenith Press in 2008. Dr. Jones’ awards include the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, four NASA Space Flight Medals, the NASA Exceptional Service Award, the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, Phi Beta Kappa, and the Air Force Commendation Medal. Tom is a member of the NASA Advisory Council, serves on the board of the Association of Space Explorers, and is a regular on-air contributor for Fox News Channel’s spaceflight coverage.

Time was when the products we used had two knobs and a switch and we knew how to use them instinctively. If we used a computer, it was for our job, and we invested days learning how to use it. Then came cable boxes, VCRs and ATMS. Now we use computers (or devices with integrated computers) constantly. We can no longer invest time in learning the idiosyncrasies of each. Today’s devices must be intuitive in their user experiences, and designers must respect their customers’ time and perspective. Also, the rise of the Internet gives the opportunity to create holistic user experiences which include not only the device, but customer support, and ultimately the brand and identity of the manufacturer itself. Lars Perkins can best be described as an entrepreneur, explorer, filmmaker, inventor, parent, pilot, photographer, world traveler and creator of startup companies. He speaks English, German and Swedish and is an avid digital photographer whose numerous digital photo collections from around the world can be viewed online. In addition, Lars is an avid airplane and helicopter pilot and flight instructor. He is a member of the Explorer’s club and a volunteer pilot for Remote Area Medical, flying relief missions to South America and other destinations. In 2011, Perkins became a member of the NASA Advisory Council and serves as Chair of the Education and Public Outreach Committee. Currently Lars Perkins is employed as a consultant in the computer software industry. He has worked as Director of Project Management for Google working on new product initiatives including Picasa where he ran the photo group. Prior to his Google employment, Lars Perkins was the CEO of Picasa, a company that developed award- winning software for digital photography users that he eventually sold to Google. He has also worked as Managing Director of Idealab and he was instrumental in starting the Boston office of this Pasadena based technology incubator. Prior to these endeavors, Lars Perkins spent 17 years as CEO of Webhire, a company he started in 1982 to create software to automate corporate recruitment. The son of two high school teachers, Perkins is a longtime computer geek who skipped college to go straight into computing. Lars built an Altair 8800 microcomputer – the first “personal computer” – as a high school science project in 1976, and has been involved in software and computing ever since. He lives with his wife and twin sons in southern California.

Through fascinating concise stories about character and high-performing people, Mr. McPherson addresses how character is developed and why character is foundational to producing breakthrough results. He then describes valuable, specific results in the real- world of business, government, and education from his distinctive professional experience ranging from corporate executive, innovative entrepreneur and Presidential appointee. Nationally known for achieving valuable results, Ted McPherson serves as a leader and strategic advisor to Fortune 100 companies, Forbes 400 entrepreneurs, and major investors. He is CEO of InterSolve Group, which he founded in 1991, creating innovative high-performing project teams and alliances of JUST-IN-TIME TALENTTM in American business. Ted McPherson has participated in 25 business acquisitions, issued debt and equity in the domestic and international capital markets, and received an award for excellence from the Financial Analysts Federation on Wall Street. In 2010, McPherson received the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Exceptional Public Service Medal as a result of his service on the NASA Advisory Council from 2005 to 2009, and he currently serves on the Development Board of the University of Texas at Dallas, a growing research institution with 19,000 students. From 2001 to 2005, he achieved valuable results appointed twice by President George Bush and confirmed by the United States Senate for two national assignments in Washington, D.C. As the Under Secretary of Education, Ted is credited for creating significant value on behalf of children and taxpayers by assuring the effectiveness of $140 billion invested annually by the Federal government in education. Ted also served as CFO of the Department of Agriculture where his leadership resulted in 2002 in the first “clean” financial audit ever achieved in the history of the Department of Agriculture, one of the largest, most complex enterprises in America. Ted distinguished himself as a United States Navy officer with the Defense Intelligence Agency, receiving the Joint Service Commendation Medal. He is a graduate of Williams College, has a master’s degree from George Washington University and completed an executive program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business. Ted and his wife Sally, a foundation consultant, reside in Dallas, Texas, and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Climate change has become a major political issue, but few understand how climate has changed in the past and the forces that drive climate. Most people don’t know that fifty million years ago there were breadfruit trees and crocodiles on the shores of the Arctic Ocean, or that 18,000 years ago there was a mile-thick glacier on Manhattan and a continuous belt of winter sea ice extending south to Cape Hatteras. The History of Climate provides context of our current climate debate and fundamental insight how the climate works. Dr. Daniel Britt is a Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Sciences at the Department of Physics, University of Central Florida. He was educated at the University of Washington and Brown University, receiving a Ph.D. from Brown in 1991. He has had a varied career including service in the US Air Force as an ICBM missile launch officer and an economist for Boeing before going into planetary sciences. He has served on the science teams of two NASA missions, Mars Pathfinder and Deep Space 1. He was the project manager for the camera on Mars Pathfinder and has built hardware for all the NASA Mars landers. Britt currently does research on the physical properties and mineralogy of asteroids, comets, the Moon, and Mars under several NASA grants. Honors include 5 NASA Achievement Awards, election as a Fellow of the Meteoritical Society, and an asteroid named after him; 4395 Dan Britt. He is currently President of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society. He lives in Orlando with his wife Judith. They have two sons, ages 16 and 21.

Kip Hodges is the Founding Director of the School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) at Arizona State University. He received his undergraduate training in geology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his Ph.D. in geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a faculty member from 1983 to 2006. While there, he served in a variety of capacities, including Dean for Undergraduate Curriculum, Co-Director of Terrascope (a project-based freshman learning environment), and Co-Director of MIT’s Earth System Initiative (an effort to fuse the modes of analysis of both science and engineering to address environmental issues). For most of his career, Hodges’ research focused on the utilization of a wide variety of geological, geophysical, and geochemical methods to understand the evolution of major mountain systems on Earth. He has conducted extensive field geological research in the Himalaya and Tibet, in the Peruvian Andes, in the North American Cordillera, and in arctic and polar Norway and Greenland. His work in this realm has included over 130 peer-reviewed publications. In recent years, he has turned some of his attention toward planetary science. Dr. Hodges is presently assisting NASA in the development and implementation of a new field geology-training program for its astronauts and he has participated in several NASA-sponsored projects exploring the design of planetary field geology strategies that involve human and robotic explorers. In addition, he and his research team are developing new analytical strategies for the determining the ages of meteorite impact events on Earth and (using the Apollo sample archive) the Moon.

One of the most profound questions humans ask is if they are alone in the universe. Does life also exist on planets far, far away? Pursuit of the answer to this question has been one of the driving forces behind our scientific exploration of the Solar System since the dawn of the Space Age. NASA has sent multiple spacecraft to many far-flung destinations looking for signs of life in such places as M ars, Europa, Titan and Enceladus. We’ll marvel at how NASA does this and what they have found so far. Dr. Wesley T. Huntress, Jr., is currently Chair of NASA’s Science Advisory Committee and Director Emeritus at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, a privately endowed scientific research institution. After receiving his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Brown University in 1964 and his Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from Stanford University in 1968, Dr. Huntress began his career at Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) as an astro-chemist specializing in chemical processes in the interstellar medium, comets and planetary atmospheres. In 1988 Dr. Huntress moved to NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC, first as Assistant to the Director of the Earth Science and Applications Division, then in 1990 became Director of the Solar System Exploration Division. In 1993 he became Associate Administrator for Space Science where he was responsible for NASA’s robotic science missions to observe the universe and to explore the solar system. In 1998 Dr. Huntress moved to the Geophysical Laboratory where he was Director until July 2007, finally retiring in October 2008. He continues today as a spokesman and strategist for the scientific exploration of space.

The average person has about 5 grams of iron in them (enough for a good sized nail). Most of this iron is used for oxygen uptake but many essential metabolic processes also rely on iron. This talk will begin with a general discussion of iron metabolism in humans and some diseases that result from disruption of iron transport. Professor Raymond’s research interests range from biochemistry and metals in medicine to physical inorganic chemistry. The underlying theme of the research projects is the question of metal-ligand specificity of interaction in coordination and bioinorganic chemistry. Dr. Raymond received an appointment to the faculty in the Department of Chemistry at The University of California, Berkeley in 1967 as an assistant professor. He became an associate professor in 1974 and a full professor of chemistry in 1978. Research from the Raymond group has covered a wide range of topics in inorganic chemistry, including actinide and lanthanide chemistry, microbial iron transport and metal-based supramolecular assemblies. At the heart of his research is a basic interest in metal- ligand specificity as understood through crystallography and solution thermodynamics. Dr. Raymond is a UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Professor and the Director of the Glenn T. Seaborg Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the President and Chairman of Lumipore. He continues to make strides in fundamental research in the fields of metals in biology and physical inorganic chemistry. He has been honored with many awards and distinguished honors in the US and abroad and has authored more than 500 scientific papers. Dr. Raymond is also named on 18 patents. Dr. Raymond attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon where he majored in Chemistry and earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1964. Raymond then attended Northwestern University where he studied coordination chemistry and crystallography under Fred Basolo, and also worked closely with James A. Ibers, earning his Ph.D. degree in 1968.

The Space Studies Board in collaboration with the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board will soon begin a major study of the goals and technical requirements of human exploration beyond low earth orbit after 2020. The study, which was commissioned by the Senate, will look at least 25 years ahead. In preparation for this responsibility, I have endeavored to gather my own thoughts about what human space exploration has and has not achieved in the past 50-odd years, and the evolution in philosophical and management thinking needed to make the leap from the Apollo era to the middle of the 21st century. The principal question is, can human space exploration be sustained over the long periods of time required, and if so, what will it take? The possible answers have technological, social, economic, and political dimensions. Charles F. Kennel studied astronomy and astrophysics at Harvard and Princeton, where he received a Ph.D. After a post-doctoral appointment to the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, he joined the UCLA Department of Physics and its Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics, chaired the Physics Department, and eventually became the UCLA Executive Vice Chancellor, UCLA’s chief academic officer. From 1994-1996, Kennel was Associate Administrator at NASA and Director of Mission to Planet Earth, the world’s largest Earth science research program. Kennel was the Director and Dean of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Vice Chancellor of Marine Sciences at the University of California, San Diego, from 1998-2006. Kennel was the founding director of the UCSD Environment and Sustainability Initiative. He presently is a distinguished professor, emeritus, of atmospheric sciences at Scripps, senior strategist for the UCSD Sustainability Solutions Institute, and co-leads the University of Cambridge/UCSD Global Water Initiative. A member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the International Academy of Astronautics. Kennel served on national and international boards, including the Pew Oceans Commission. He was a co-founder of the Partnership for the Observation of the Global Ocean, a world-wide consortium of ocean research institutions. He has been a member of the NASA Advisory Council for a total of 11 years; and he served as Chair for 5 years. He was the 2007 C.P. Snow lecturer at the University of Cambridge, and a member of the Presidential Commission on human space flight in 2009. Kennel chaired the California Council on Science and Technology from 2006-2010 and presently chairs the Space Studies Board of the US National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Kennel serves on the advisory boards of various prominent research organizartions and has received numerous awards and honors.

Time was when the products we used had two knobs and a switch and we knew how to use them instinctively. If we used a computer, it was for our job, and we invested days learning how to use it. Then came cable boxes, VCRs and ATMS. Now we use computers (or devices with integrated computers) constantly. We can no longer invest time in learning the idiosyncrasies of each. Today’s devices must be intuitive in their user experiences, and designers must respect their customers’ time and perspective. Also, the rise of the Internet gives the opportunity to create holistic user experiences which include not only the device, but customer support, and ultimately the brand and identity of the manufacturer itself. Lars Perkins can best be described as an entrepreneur, explorer, filmmaker, inventor, parent, pilot, photographer, world traveler and creator of startup companies. He speaks English, German and Swedish and is an avid digital photographer whose numerous digital photo collections from around the world can be viewed online. In addition, Lars is an avid airplane and helicopter pilot and flight instructor. He is a member of the Explorer’s club and a volunteer pilot for Remote Area Medical, flying relief missions to South America and other destinations. In 2011, Perkins became a member of the NASA Advisory Council and serves as Chair of the Education and Public Outreach Committee. Currently Lars Perkins is employed as a consultant in the computer software industry. He has worked as Director of Project Management for Google working on new product initiatives including Picasa where he ran the photo group. Prior to his Google employment, Lars Perkins was the CEO of Picasa, a company that developed award- winning software for digital photography users that he eventually sold to Google. He has also worked as Managing Director of Idealab and he was instrumental in starting the Boston office of this Pasadena based technology incubator. Prior to these endeavors, Lars Perkins spent 17 years as CEO of Webhire, a company he started in 1982 to create software to automate corporate recruitment. The son of two high school teachers, Perkins is a longtime computer geek who skipped college to go straight into computing. Lars built an Altair 8800 microcomputer – the first “personal computer” – as a high school science project in 1976, and has been involved in software and computing ever since. He lives with his wife and twin sons in southern California.

Rob Spanier will share his expertise and experience in the planning, implementation and development of mixed-use projects to help create vibrant, feasible, activated and personality-filled places, with a view toward long-term sustainable economic success. Rob will discuss mixed-use development and the movement that is happening across North America to revitalize cities, towns and communities. Rob is passionate about life and helping to provide places where people can connect to people, and to their environments and to create places where memories are born and will last forever. Rob Spanier is the Vice-President of LiveWorkLearnPlay, a cutting edge international urban development advisory firm dedicated to creating and redeveloping iconic mixed-use real estate projects and environments. Rob has over a decade of international hands-on experience in large-scale mixed-use project deal making, having helped develop over 30 projects in North America, Europe, Mexico and the Caribbean. During his 5-year tenure as a senior executive with Intrawest Corporation, Rob was instrumental in helping to create world class mixed-use destination resort towns; heading their international leasing team to complete over 300 mixed- use non-traditional retail, restaurant, entertainment, hospitality and service based deals. Rob Spanier is also the Vice Chair for Mission Advancement of The Urban Land Institute (ULI) Toronto District Council and actively supports organizations such as The Seaside Institute, The Congress for New Urbanism (CNU) and the National Town Builders Association (NTBA). Rob is a regular guest speaker throughout North America through his various affiliations and other commitments. LiveWorkLearnPlay has offices in Austin, Montreal and Toronto. With over 75 years of combined experience, LiveWorkLearnPlay focuses on large- scale mixed-use real estate projects, working with private developers, municipalities, landowners, college/universities, Public-Private Partnerships and financial institutions in bringing their projects to life.

Retroviruses are responsible for a variety of animal diseases, including leukemia, cancer, and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Approximately 8% of the human genome consists of retrovirus genes that were obtained by infection of our ancestors. {South, 1991 #155 } The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), the causative agent for AIDS, is a particularly lethal retrovirus that has caused nearly 25 million deaths over the past 30 years. An additional ~33 million people are currently living with HIV-1 infection, including 15.7 million women and 2.1 million children. Recent research has focused on understanding how the main structural protein of HIV-1, called Gag, gets to specific sites inside infected cells and assembles into new viruses. After the newly assembled viruses are released from the cell, they undergo structural changes that are required in order to infect other cells of the immune system. This talk discusses the development of a new class of antiviral inhibitors that block viral maturation in test tubes and could lead to new clinical approaches for the treatment of AIDS. Michael F. Summers is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Adjunct Professor of Biological Chemistry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. He is primarily engaged in the research on application of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to studies of the structure and function of proteins and macromolecular interactions. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and computational methods are employed in the laboratory to address protein-protein and protein-RNA interactions that occur as retroviruses assemble in infected cells. Summers was the recipient of the AAAS Mentor Award in 2003. He is honored for his contributions in mentoring students from underrepresented groups and leadership in promoting Ph.D. careers for underrepresented groups in science and engineering. Summers has directly mentored a dozen Ph.D. students from a variety of socio-economic backgrounds. Of the 67 bachelor’s degree recipients who have worked in his lab, 20 have entered Ph.D. programs. He developed and directs the Meyerhoff Graduate Fellows Program, a minority graduate program at UMBC. Through this program, 32 full-time students, African American and Hispanic, are pursuing Ph.D. degrees in the biomedical sciences. Summers is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and he serves on the Board of Directors of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, and on the Education and Human Resources Advisory Committee of the National Science Foundation. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Emily M. Gray Award from the Biophysical Society; the William A. Hinton Award from the American Association of Microbiology; the US presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring; and the Maryland Chemist of the Year Award from the American Chemical Society.Summers earned his B.S. in Chemistry in 1980 from the University of West Florida. He received his Ph.D. in Inorganic and Bio-Physical Chemistry from Emory University in 1984.

There is growing awareness that the profound changes in the environment (e.g. in diet and other lifestyle conditions) that began with the introduction of agriculture and animal husbandry approximately 10,000 years ago occurred too recently on an evolutionary timescale for the human genome to adjust. In conjunction with this discordance between our ancient, genetically-determined biology and the nutritional, cultural and activity patterns of contemporary western populations, many of the so-called diseases of civilization have emerged. In the U.S. and most western countries, diet-related chronic diseases represent the single largest cause of morbidity and mortality. These diseases are epidemic in contemporary, westernized populations and typically afflict 50-65 % of the adult population, yet are rare or non-existent in hunter-gatherers and other less westernized people. Evidence gleaned over the past three decades now indicates that virtually all so-called diseases of civilization have multifactorial dietary elements that underlie their etiology, along with other environmental agents and genetic susceptibility. This talk will trace the origins of the Western diet and discuss the health implications. Dr. Cordain is a Professor in the Department of Health and Exercise Science at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. His research emphasis over the past 15 years has focused upon the evolutionary and anthropological basis for diet, health and well being in modern humans. Dr. Cordain’s scientific publications have examined the nutritional characteristics of worldwide hunter-gatherer diets as well as the nutrient composition of wild plant and animal foods consumed by foraging humans. Over the past five years his work has focused upon the adverse health effects of the high dietary glycemic load that is ubiquitous in the typical western diet. A number of his recent papers have proposed an endocrine link between dietary induced hyperinsulinemia and acne. Currently, Dr. Cordain’s research team is exploring the connection between dietary elements that increase intestinal permeability (primarily saponins and lectins) and autoimmune disease, particularly multiple sclerosis. Dr. Cordain is the author of more than 100 peer review publications, many of which were funded by both private and governmental agencies. He is the recent recipient of the Scholarly Excellence award at Colorado State University for his contributions into understanding optimal human nutrition. He has lectured extensively world wide, and has written three popular books (The Paleo Diet, John Wiley & Sons; The Paleo Diet for Athletes, Rodale Press; The Dietary Cure for Acne) summarizing his research findings.

Glenn W. Sturm is a partner of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP in the Atlanta office, where he practices in corporate law, and technology law. Additionally, Mr. Sturm practices in securities law and focuses on the representation of investment banks, technology, private equity funds and emerging growth companies. Mr. Sturm has chaired the Firm’s Corporate Group and serves on the Firm’s Executive Committee, a governing body of seven partners who oversee standing committees, strategic initiatives and overall operations of the firm. A member of the Florida Bar and the State Bar of Georgia, Mr. Sturm’s experience includes representation of issuers and underwriters in the public issuance of securities, private equity financing, private placements, and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Sturm is a member of the American Bar Association and its Committee on Federal Regulation of Securities and the 33 Securities Act Subcommittee, and the Atlanta Bar Association. Mr. Sturm serves in the U.S. Army Reserve, and served on the corporate board of directors for Goldleaf Financial Solutions, Inc. (GFSI). He founded Netzee, Inc. (NASDAW: NETZ), an Internet banking enabling company that he took public in 1999, and served as its chief executive officer from 1999-2000. He also served on the corporate boards of directors for InterCept, Inc. (ICPT) and WebMD, Inc. (WBMD). Mr. Sturm’s civic involvement includes membership on the national council of the Boy Scouts of America, the executive board of the Atlanta Area Council, and he was recently awarded the Silver Beaver Award, the highest award a local council can bestow on a volunteer. He also serves as a trustee of the Levin College of Law at the University of Florida. Prior to attending law school, he held executive positions in a leading healthcare corporation. In 1985, Mr. Sturm earned a Juris Doctor, with honors, from the Levin College of Law at the University of Florida where he was named to the Order of the Coif. During law school, he served as a fellowship instructor of legal research and writing and as executive managing editor of the Florida International Law Journal. He was a member of Omicron Delta Kappa, Florida Blue Key, and Phi Kappa Phi. Mr. Sturm earned a Master of Arts in Management from Pepperdine University in 1978, and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Florida in 1976.