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Project Title:
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A New Biology for the 21st Century:
Ensuring that the United States Leads the Coming Biology Revolution
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BLSX-K-08-03-A
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Major Unit:
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Division on Earth and Life Studies
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Sub Unit:
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Board on Life Sciences
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RSO:
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Reid, Ann
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A New Biology for the 21st Century - Biology Summit and Meeting 2
December 3, 2008 - December 4, 2008
AAAS Auditorium
1200 New York Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20005
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If you would like to attend the sessions of this meeting that are open
to the public or need more information please contact:
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| Contact Name:
Amanda Cline
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| Email:
acline@nas.edu
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| Phone:
202-334-3653
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Fax:
202-334-1289
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Agenda:
Register online at http://www8.nationalacademies.org/isc-registration/public/default.asp?event=A80A15DB
The Role of the Life Sciences in Transforming America’s Future
The 2008 National Academies Biology Summit
December 3rd, 2008
1200 New York Avenue NW
Washington, D.C. 20005
8:30 a.m. Welcome from the President
Ralph Cicerone, President of the National Academy of Sciences
8:45 a.m. James P. Collins Assistant Director for Biological Sciences, National Science Foundation
9:15 a.m. Raymond L. Orbach Undersecretary for Science in the United States Department of Energy
9:45 a.m. Thomas R. Cech President of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
10:15 a.m. David T. Kingsbury, Chief Program Officer for Science, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
10:45 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m. Susan Hockfield President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11:30 a.m. Susan Desmond-Hellmann President of Product Development, Genentech
12:00 p.m. Harold Varmus President of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
12:30 p.m. Panel Discussion
1:00 p.m. Lunch Break
Afternoon
2:15 p.m. SCIENCE SPEAKER #1 CYNTHIA KENYON
2:45 p.m. SCIENCE SPEAKER #2 LUCY SHAPIRO
3:15 p.m. SCIENCE SPEAKER #3 ROBERT FRALEY
3:30 p.m. Break
4:00 p.m. Elias A. Zerhouni, former Director of the National Institutes of Health
4:30 p.m. PANEL DISCUSSION
5:00 p.m. Closing Remarks
Keith Yamamoto Chairman, Board on Life Sciences, National Research Council
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Closed Session Summary Posted After the Meeting
The following committee members were present at the closed sessions of the meeting:
Phillip Sharp
Margaret McFall-Ngai
Peter Kim
Dennis Ausiello
Ingrid Burke
Mary Lidstrom
Elliot Meyerowitz
Shoshana Wodak
Keith Yamamoto
The following topics were discussed in the closed sessions:
Previous day's workshop
Consensus report outline
The following materials (written documents) were made available to the committee in the closed sessions:
none
Date of posting of Closed Session Summary:
December 12, 2008
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