. "Appendix B: Workshop Background." Implementing the New Biology: Decadal Challenges Linking Food, Energy, and the Environment: Summary of a Workshop, June 3-4, 2010. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2010.
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Implementing the New Biology: Decadal Challenges Linking Food, Energy, and the Environment - Summary of a Workshop June 3-4, 2010
MEETING AGENDAIMPLEMENTING 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 MedicalInstitute; Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,University of California, Berkeley
Keith Yamamoto, Chair, Board on Life Sciences, NationalResearch Council; Professor of Cellular and MolecularPharmacology and Executive Vice Dean, School ofMedicine, University of California, San Francisco
Roger Beachy, Director, National Institute of Food andAgriculture, 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[Seebreakout group assignment and locations]
