ScienceOnline2010 - introducing the participants

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As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.

Felice Frankel is a famous science photographer. She works at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School's Systems Biology, the Wyss Institute and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is founder of the Image and Meaning series of workshops and conferences and leads the NSF-funded program Picturing to Learn. She has published some amazing books of science photography, including Envisioning Science, On the Surface of Things, and No Small Matter. At the conference, Felice will co-moderate the session on Art and Science: Visual Metaphors.

Jonathan Rees is a computer scientist. He is the Science Commons (part of Creative Commons) representative to the W3C Heath Care and Life Sciences Interest Group and, together with others at Neurocommons is involved in building a Semantic Web. At the conference, Jonathan will lead the session Shakespeare wasn't a semantic web guy.

Kathleen Angione is the Science Communications Fellow at North Carolina Sea Grant and the North Carolina State University Department of English. She is the senior editor of Coastwatch magazine.

Roy Campbell is the director of exhibits at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh. He will, as he does every year, take a group of participants on a tour of the Museum.

Kristian Lum is a PhD student in statistics at Duke. She is also on Twitter.

Greg Gbur is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Optical Science at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He blogs on Skulls in the Stars.

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