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Eduardo Rapoport / http://www.eduardorapoport.com.ar/index.php
Topic: Riots, disasters caused by species invasoras.Estudios: Bachelor Biology and Doctor of Science (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, 1953 and 1956).
Activity: And Emeritus Professor, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, CRUB and senior researcher of CONICET (R). Ex - Director of the Laboratory Ecotone (Dept. Ecology, UNC), Bariloche, where about 30 researchers, scholars and postgraduate students. Recognized by the Annual Award in Biological Science (Third World Academy of Science) and the Bunge y Born Prize in Environmental Science.

Gabriel Marroig / gmarroig@ib.usp.br
Topic: Quantitative genetics and evolution of South American mammals
Education: M. Sc (1995) - BI - IFRJ. Ph.D. (2000) - BI - UFRJ
Activity: Professor, Department of Biology. University of Sao Paulo. Brazil. Mammal Evolution Laboratory. Evolutionary Genetics

Christopher Johnson / Christopher.Johnson @ jcu.edu.au
Topic: biology of marsupials in Australia.
Education: Doctor of Philosophy (University of New England)
Activity: School of Marine and Tropical Biology. James Cook University. Reproductive strategies and sex allocation in marsupials

Boris R . Krasnov / mailto: Krasnov / Krasnov @ bgumail.bgu.ac.il
Subject: Zoology and Ecology .
Place and date of birth: October 19, 1955, Moscow, Russia
Education: M.Sc. Thesis - "Social and spatial changes in laboratory populations. Influence of sterilization under pesticides." Ph.D. Ph.D. in Biology, 1986, Moscow State University, Russia. "The community structure of rodents and the control of the population. "
Activity: Community and population ecology of mammals. Ecology of the community of terrestrial arthropods. The behavioral ecology of small mammals. Conservation ecology. Host-parasite relationships.

Burt Kotler / kotler@bgumail.bgu.ac.il
Topic: mechanisms of species coexistence.
Place and date of birth: 1954, U.S..
Education: Doctorate , 1983. University of Arizona.
Activity: Professor. Board of Editors, Ecology and Ecological Monographs.
Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Blaustein Institute for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Eviatar Nevo / nevo@research.haifa.ac.il
Topic: origin of species and adaptations in nature. Maintenance of genetic diversity in natural populations of plants and animals.
Place and date of birth: Tel Aviv (1929)
Education: Master's and PDH Evolutionary Biology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Activity: Holder of the Chair of Evolutionary Biology, Hebrew University Jerusalem. Created Department of Biology, University of Haifa (1971). Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, the New York Academy of Sciences (member of the Inaugural Charles Darwin Associates). Member of the Linnean Society of London. Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. In 1990, the Round Table of World University conferred an Honorary Doctorate of Culture. Member of the Genome Organization humans. 1997, named "Man of the Year" by American Biographical Institute.
In 1998, named "International Man of the Millennium" by the International Biographical Centre of Cambridge, England.

Gerardo Ceballos Gonzalez
/ gceballo@ecologia.unam.mx
Topic: Conservation Ecosystem of prairie dogs, jaguars, pumas and birds
Place and date of birth: born in 1958 in Mexico.
Education: MBA from the University of Wales. Doctorate at the University of Arizona (Tucson).
Activity: Researcher "C" Full-time at the Institute of Ecology, UNAM. Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, the American Association for Ecology and the Mexican Association of Mammalogy. Honorable Mention. Rolex Awards For Enterprise. Montres, Rolex, Geneva, Switzerland (1990) Award International Group Conservation Award. " Safari Club International, USA. (1998).

Hopi E. HoekstraHopi / hoekstra@oeb.harvard.edu
Subject: Evolutionary genetics of mammalian closely
Education: Ph.D., Zoology, University of Washington (Seattle, WA)
Bachelor of Integrative Biology, University California, Berkeley Activity: Department of Evolutionary and organismal biology. Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. Associate Professor of Natural Sciences. Harvard University. Curator of Mammals of Comparative Zoology (Boston, MA).

Pablo Marquet / pmarquet@bio.puc.cl
Topic: Macroecology; Conservation of Biodiversity, Biogeography.
Place and date of birth: August 2, 1963 - Santiago, Chile.
Education: University of Concepción , BS in Biology, 1987. University of New Mexico, Ph.D. (Biology), 1993. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Postdoctoral Associate, 1994.
Activity: Department of Ecology - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Research Associate, Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity (IEB). Research Associate, Center for Advanced Studies in Ecology and Biodiversity (CASEB).

Robert Voss / voss@amnh.org
Topic: Systematics and biogeography of neotropical mammals in the Amazon and the Andes.
Education: Ph.D. in Zoology, University of Michigan, 1983. Degree in Zoology, University of Arizona, 1976.
Activity: Adjunct Professor, City University of New York. Adjunct Senior Research Faculty, Columbia University.

Ruben M. Barquez
Topic: Systematics and distribution of mammals in Argentina.
Education: Doctor in Biological Sciences, National University of Tucumán.
Activity: Vertebrate Professor, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán.
Scientific Research Career of CONICET (National Council for Scientific and Technical Research of Argentina). Systematics and distribution of mammals in Argentina. He was president of the SAREM (Argentina Society for the Study of Mammals). Directs PIDB (Biodiversity Research Program Argentina).

William F. Laurence / laurancew@si.edu
Topic: Impacts of land use, habitat fragmentation, fire and logging in tropical ecosystems.
Education: Bachelor Biology, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, USA 1982. Ph.D. Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, USA 1989
Activity: Smithsonian Institution / INPA, Manaus, Brazil. President of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, the largest in the world devoted to the study and protection of tropical ecosystems. During the past two decades, has worked in the Amazon, Africa Central Australia's tropical and Central America.

Michael A. Mares
Topic: Role scientific collections; Mammals of Argentina; Conservation.
Place and date of birth: Albuquerque, New Mexico - March 1945.
Education: University of Texas, Austin, Ph.D., 1973 (Zoology). Fort Hays Kansas State University, Hays, Kansas, MS, 1969 (Zoology). University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, BS, 1967 (Biology).
Activity: Distinguished Research Curator, Sam Noble Oklahoma. Museum of Natural History, 2003-present. Distinguished Research Professor Department of Zoology, 2003-present. Director, Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, University of Oklahoma, 1983-2003. Professor of Zoology Department of Zoology, and Curator of Mammals (1985-present) of Oklahoma.