25th Anniversary Celebration

Draft Agenda

Monday, October 26
Lecture Room
2101 Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, DC

8:00 am - Registration

8:30 am - Welcome
Keith Yamamoto, Chair, Board on Life Sciences

8:45 am - What Makes a High Impact National Academies Report?
Barbara Schaal, Vice President, NAS

9:00 am - The Transformative Effects of New Science - the Human Genome Project
Bruce Alberts, Editor, SCIENCE magazine and Chair of the Committee on Mapping and Sequencing the Human Genome
Alan Guttmacher , Acting Director, National Human Genome Research Institute

9:45 am - Organizations, Programs, and Infrastructure
Lana Skirboll, Acting Director, Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives, National Institutes of Health: on Enhancing the Vitality of the National Institutes of Health;
Peter Bruns, Vice President for Grants and Special Programs, Howard Hughes Medical Institute: on BIO 2010

10:30 am - Beyond Biomedicine: Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Richard Hynes, Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

11:15 am - Break

11:30 am - Looking Forward: Potential Contributions of the Life Sciences to Solving Crucial 21st Century Problems
Phillip Sharp and Thomas Connelly - Introduction to the Major Themes of the Report "A New Biology for the 21st Century"

• Energy
• Environment
• Food
• Health

12:30 pm - Lunch

1:30 pm - Session 1: Energy - Interface of Energy Research and the Life Sciences
William F. Brinkman, Director, Office of Science, Department of Energy

2:15 pm - Session 2: Environment - The Role of Ecology and Environmental Science
James P. Collins, Arizona State University, former Assistant Director, Biology, National Science Foundation

3:00 pm - Session 3: Health - Life Science, Health, and the Value of Interdisciplinary Approaches
Francis Collins, Director, National Institutes of Health

3:45 pm - Break

4:00 pm - Session 4: Food - Biological Research and Ensuring the 21st Century Food Supply
Rajiv Shah, Undersecretary for Research, Education and Economics, USDA

4:45 pm - Panel Discussion
Phillip Sharp, Thomas Connelly, William Brinkman, James P. Collins, Rajiv Shah, Francis Collins; moderated by Fran Sharples, Director, Board on Life Sciences

5:30 pm - Closing remarks
Keith Yamamoto, Chair, Board on Life Sciences

6:00 pm - Reception in the Great Hall