Speakers
Inaugural conference on environmental changes and their impact on health
Robert Barouki
Sylvie Babajko
Sylvie Tambutté
Lecture on History of Enamel research
Alan Boyle
(Paleontology): What present populations have tolearn from past populations?
Adeline Le Cabec
Fernando Ramirez
Robert Barouki
R. Barouki is a biochemist and molecular biologist whose main research during the last 25 years has focused on the impact of environmental contaminants on human health and the mechanisms of action involved in those effects.
Sylvie Tambutté
Research area is centered on the biology and physiology of corals, with a specific focus on the calcification/biomineralization mechanism. Investigating the role of intracellular vesicles, studying the regulation of ion transport, analyzing the synthesis of the organic matrix, and assessing the impact of environmental factors such as ocean acidification
Alan Boyde
Professor Alan Boyde started studying enamel development and structure in 1959, helped to organise the First Enamel Conference at The London Hospital Medical College in 1964, and has not lost this interest since.
He was a pioneer in the early use of TEM, SEM and confocal LM in enamel and ameloblasts research, and has broad interests in the general field of Mineralised Tissue Biology, with a strong emphasis on comparative aspects. His work on enamel has detailed several features of enamel microstructure to understand prism pattern arrangements and has informed us on the mechanisms of calcium transport by ameloblasts, among several other interesting aspects of his research including imaging ruffled and smooth ended ameloblasts by SEM.
He has trained a vast number of researchers and dental students on enamel development and the importance of its microstructure.
Adeline Le Cabec
Adeline Le Cabec specializes in dental anthropology. Her research focuses on two major themes: taxonomic and functional aspects of dental root morphology, and characterization of dental development in relation to dietary adaptations during ontogeny, during human evolution.
Fernando Ramirez Rozzi
F. Ramírez Rozzi is a paleoanthropologist specializing in dental research.His main publications focus on dental development in fossil hominids and modern human populations. His thesis work marked the beginning of studies on hominid dental microanatomy in France at the Musée de l’Homme’s biological anthropology laboratory.