Agenda for Meeting One: July 8-9, 2010, in Washington, D.C.

The Ritz-Carlton Washington, D.C.
1150 22nd St. NW
Washington, DC 20037
202-835-0500

Thursday, July 8

8:30-9:00 a.m.

Swearing-in Ceremony

• Kathleen Sebelius
  • Secretary
    Department of Health and Human Services
• Howard K. Koh, M.D., MPH
  • Assistant Secretary for Health
    Department of Health and Human Services

9-9:30 a.m.

Welcome and Introductions

9:30-10:30 a.m.

Session 1: Overview and Context of the Science and Technology

• Drew Endy, Ph.D.
  • Terman Fellow & Asst. Professor of Bioengineering
    Stanford University
  • Director
    BIOFAB: International Open Facility Advancing Biotechnology
  • President
    The BioBricks Foundation
• Bonnie L. Bassler, Ph.D.
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
  • Squibb Professor
    Dept. of Molecular Biology
    Princeton University
  • President
    American Society for Microbiology
• Robert Carlson, Ph.D.
  • Principal
    Biodesic

10:30-10:45 a.m.

Break

10:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Session 2: Applications

• J. Craig Venter, Ph.D.
  • Founder and President
    J. Craig Venter Institute
• George Church, Ph.D.
  • Professor of Genetics
    Harvard Medical School
• Kristala L. J. Prather, Ph.D.
  • Assistant Professor
    Dept. of Chemical Engineering
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

12:30-1:45 p.m.

Lunch

1:45-3 p.m.

Session 3: Benefits and Risks

• Allison Snow, Ph.D.
  • Professor
    Dept. of Evolution, Ecology & Organismal Biology
    Ohio State University
• Jim Thomas
  • Programme Manager
    ETC Group
• Nancy M.P. King, J.D.
  • Professor
    Dept. of Social Sciences and Health Policy
    Wake Forest University School of Medicine
  • Co-Director
    WFU Center for Bioethics, Health, and Society

3-4 p.m.

Session 4: Ethics

• Gregory Kaebnick, Ph.D.
  • Research Scholar
    The Hastings Center
  • Editor
    The Hastings Center Report
• Allen Buchanan, Ph.D.
  • James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy
    Duke University
  • Investigator
    Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy
    Duke University
  • Distinguished Research Associate
    Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford

4-4:15 p.m.

Break

4:15-5:15 p.m.

Session 5: Plenary

Speakers Roundtable Moderated by Amy Gutmann, Ph.D.

Friday, July 9

9-10:30 a.m.

Session 6: Ethics

• David Rejeski
  • Director
    Science and Technology Innovation Program
    Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
• Markus Schmidt, Ph.D.]
  • Co-founder
    Organisation for International Dialogue and Conflict Management
    Vienna, Austria
• Paul Root Wolpe, Ph.D.
  • Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Bioethics
    Director
    Center for Ethics
    Emory University

10:30-10:45 a.m.

Break

10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

Session 7: Federal Oversight

• Amy Patterson, M.D.
  • Acting Director
    Office of Science Policy
  • Director
    Office of Biotechnology Activities
    National Institutes of Health
• Michael Rodemeyer, J.D.
  • Lecturer
    Dept. of Science, Technology & Society
    School of Engineering and Applied Science
    University of Virginia
• Edward H. You
  • Supervisory Special Agent
    Federal Bureau of Investigation
    Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate
    Countermeasures Unit I
    Bioterrorism Prevention Program