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Implementing the New Biology: Decadal Challenges Linking Food, Energy, and the Environment - Summary of a Workshop June 3-4, 2010
Appendix B
Workshop Background
WORKSHOP STATEMENT OF TASK
The 2009 report A New Biology for the 21st Century offered a vision that enables powerful advances in the life sciences to provide solutions to major global problems. As part of the follow-on activities stemming from the report, the Board on Life Sciences plans to organize a series of workshops to provide concrete examples of how the life sciences could contribute to addressing these grand challenges.
For the first of these, an ad hoc committee will organize a public workshop on meeting the intertwined challenges of increasing food and energy resources in a context of environmental stress, in which participants will:
Identify a small number of concrete problems for the New Biology to solve—problems that are important and urgent (and therefore inspirational), intractable with current knowledge and technology, but perhaps solvable in a decade.
Identify the knowledge gaps that would need to be filled to achieve those goals.
Identify conceptual and technological advances essential to achieve those goals.
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MEETING AGENDA IMPLEMENTING THE NEW BIOLOGY: DECADAL CHALLENGES LINKING FOOD, ENERGY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Board on Life Sciences, National Research Council
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
4000 Jones Bridge Road • Chevy Chase, MD 20815
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 2010
6:00 p.m.
Light buffet dinner for participants who will be arriving early [Rathskeller Lounge]
THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 2010
8:00 a.m.
Breakfast available until 9:30 a.m. [Small Dining Room]
10:00 a.m.
Plenary #1: Welcome to HHMI; Introduction to Workshop [Small Auditorium]
Chair: Robert Tjian, President, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Keith Yamamoto, Chair, Board on Life Sciences, National Research Council; Professor of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology and Executive Vice Dean, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Roger Beachy, Director, National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Steven Koonin, Under Secretary for Science, U.S. Department of Energy
10:30 a.m.
“Elevator” Talks [Small Auditorium]
Each participant will have three minutes to present his or her transformative idea
12:00 p.m.
Breakout #1 (in assigned small groups) during lunch [See breakout group assignment and locations]
Discuss elevator talks
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Choose top three Big Ideas from elevator talks or develop new transformative ideas by combining, refining, and building on elevator talks, or de novo
Place each idea on the New Biology quadrant
For each idea, explain the following:
Degree of risk or likelihood of success
Why it requires cross-agency effort and why it won’t happen any other way
Why it’s important: impact, if successful, on agriculture, energy, environment, health
2:15 p.m.
Break
2:30 p.m.
Plenary #2: Prioritization [Small Auditorium]
Breakout group progress reports
Plenary Discussion: prioritize
Refine and perhaps begin to cluster ideas
Initial brainstorming on cross-cutting knowledge areas and technologies or shared resources that might contribute to multiple “decadal challenges”
4:00 p.m.
Breakout #2 [See breakout group assignments and locations]
Begin to identify the “decadal-level” research problems and questions that investigators could address in order to achieve them
Questions include the following:
What is needed in terms of basic knowledge, new technologies, and infrastructure?
What other fields need to be involved?
What educational programs are needed to produce the right kinds of researchers?
Consideration of timing, sequence, and interactions among ideas
5:30 p.m.
Break
6:15 p.m.
Dinner (in mixed groups) [Small Dining Room]
Representative from each group should brief dinner companions on the day’s discussions; scribes take notes
8:00 p.m.
Continued interactions and discussion [Rathskeller Lounge] Steering committee meeting with rapporteurs
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FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 2010
7:30 a.m.
Breakfast available until 8:30 a.m. [Small Dining Room]
8:30 a.m.
Plenary #3: Development of Decadal-Level Agenda [Small Auditorium]
Reports of dinner discussions
Development of master chart
Organization of Breakout #3
10:00 a.m.
Break
10:15 a.m.
Breakout #3 (as determined in plenary #3) [Rooms N-140, N-238, S-221]
11:30 a.m.
Plenary #4: Small-Group Breakout Reports [Small Auditorium]
12:30 p.m.
Lunch (Steering committee and rapporteurs meet again) [Small Dining Room]
1:30 p.m.
Breakout #4: Gap Filling (as determined over lunch) [Rooms N-140, N-238, S-221]
Goal is to capture all ideas: the resulting workshop report will include only ideas discussed at the workshop
2:30 p.m.
Final Plenary [Small Auditorium]
Identify immediate priorities: top five actions that need to happen in the next year
Getting the message out: brainstorming on how participants can continue to be involved in the New Biology effort
3:30 p.m.
Adjourn
Direct and in-kind support for the workshop has been provided by the U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
A New Biology for the 21st Century was supported by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Energy.
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LIST OF PARTICIPANTS IMPLEMENTING THE NEW BIOLOGY: DECADAL CHALLENGES LINKING FOOD, ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Board on Life Sciences, National Research Council
June 3-4, 2010 • Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland
Bonnie L. Bassler, Ph.D.
HHMI Investigator
Squibb Professor of Molecular Biology
Princeton University
Roger N. Beachy, Ph.D.
Director
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Edward S. Buckler, Ph.D.
Agricultural Research Service
U.S. Department of Agriculture; and Adjunct Professor of Plant Breeding and Genetics
Cornell University
Vicki L. Chandler, Ph.D. [planning committee]
Chief Program Officer, Science
Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation; and
Regents’ Professor, Departments of Plant Sciences and Molecular & Cellular Biology
University of Arizona
Jeffery L. Dangl, Ph.D.
John N. Couch Professor of Biology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Edward F. DeLong, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Division of Biological Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joseph R. Ecker, Ph.D.
Professor, Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Sean R. Eddy, Ph.D.
Group Leader
Janelia Farm Research Campus
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Richard Flavell, Ph.D., FRS, CBE
Chief Scientific Officer
Ceres, Inc.
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Jeffrey I. Gordon [planning committee]
Dr. Robert J. Glaser Distinguished University Professor
Director, Center for Genome Sciences
School of Medicine
Washington University in St. Louis
Steve A. Kay, Ph.D.
Dean, Division of Biological Sciences
Richard C. Atkinson Chair in the Biological Sciences
Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology
University of California, San Diego
Steven E. Koonin, Ph.D.
Under Secretary for Science
U.S. Department of Energy
Stephen P. Long, Ph.D.
Robert Emerson Professor
Departments of Plant Biology and Crop Sciences
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and
Deputy Director
Energy Biosciences Institute
James A. MacMahon, Ph.D.
Dean, College of Science
Trustee Professor, Department of Biology
Director, Ecology Center
Utah State University; and
Chair, Board of Directors
National Ecological Observatory Network, Inc.
Rebecca J. Nelson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Departments of Plant Pathology & Plant-Microbe Biology and Plant Breeding & Genetics
Cornell University; and
Scientific Director, McKnight Foundation Collaborative Crop Research Program
Donald R. Ort, Ph.D.
Professor of Plant Biology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and Photosynthesis Research Unit
Agricultural Research Service
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Ann H. Reid
Director
American Academy of Microbiology
American Society for Microbiology
Charles W. Rice, Ph.D.
University Distinguished Professor, Soil Microbiology
Department of Agronomy
Kansas State University; and President-Elect, Soil Science Society of America
Martha Schlicher, Ph.D.
Bioenergy Lead
Monsanto Company
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Christopher R. Somerville, Ph.D. [planning committee]
Director
Energy Biosciences Institute; and
Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology
University of California, Berkeley; and
Visiting Scientist
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Gary Stacey, Ph.D.
Missouri Soybean Biotechnology Professor in Functional Genomics and Integrated Advanced Technologies
Professor of Plant Sciences and Joint Professor of Biochemistry
Director, Center for Sustainable Energy
University of Missouri; and Associate Director, National Center for Soybean Biotechnology
Gregory Stephanopoulos, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Julie A. Theriot, Ph.D.
HHMI Investigator
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Microbiology & Immunology
Stanford University
Robert Tjian, Ph.D.
President
Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of California, Berkeley
Keith Yamamoto, Ph.D. [planning committee]
Professor of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology
Executive Vice Dean, School of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
AGENCY OBSERVERS
Roland F. Hirsh, Ph.D.
Program Manager, Climate & Environmental Sciences Division
Office of Biological & Environmental Research
U.S. Department of Energy
Lynn Hudson, Ph.D.
Director
Office of Science Policy Analysis
Office of Science Policy
Office of the Director
National Institutes of Health
Tom Kalil
Deputy Director for Policy
Office of Science and Technology Policy
Executive Office of the President
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Mary E. Maxon, Ph.D.
Deputy Executive Director
President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)
Philip S. Perlman, Ph.D.
Senior Scientific Officer
Director, Research Facilities
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Carl D. Rhodes, Ph.D.
Senior Scientific Officer
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Zeev Rosenzweig, Ph.D.
Program Officer
Division of Chemistry
Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences
National Science Foundation
Joann P. Roskoski, Ph.D.
Acting Assistant Director for Biological Sciences
National Science Foundation
Sharlene C. Weatherwax, Ph.D.
Director, Biological Systems Science Division
Office of Biological & Environmental Research
U.S. Department of Energy
NATIONAL ACADEMIES STAFF
Lida Anestidou, D.V.M., Ph.D. (LAnestidou@nas.edu)
Senior Program Officer
Institute for Laboratory Animal Research
National Research Council
Adam P. Fagen, Ph.D. (AFagen@nas.edu)
Senior Program Officer
Board on Life Sciences
National Research Council
India Hook-Barnard, Ph.D. (IHook@nas.edu)
Program Officer
Board on Life Sciences
National Research Council
Jo L. Husbands, Ph.D. (JHusbands@nas.edu)
Scholar, Senior Project Director
Board on Life Sciences
National Research Council
Robin Schoen (RSchoen@nas.edu)
Director
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources
National Research Council
Frances E. Sharples, Ph.D. (FSharples@nas.edu)
Senior Director
Board on Life Sciences
National Research Council
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