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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A – Microbial Commons Symposium Agenda." National Research Council. 2011. Designing the Microbial Research Commons: Proceedings of an International Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13245.
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Appendix A – Microbial Commons Symposium Agenda

Designing the Microbial Research Commons: An International Symposium

Board on Research Data and Information
Policy and Global Affairs Division
National Academy of Sciences

In collaboration with
Board on Life Sciences

and
Board on International Scientific Organizations
National Academy of Sciences


8-9 October 2009

The Lecture Room
National Academy of Sciences
2100 C Street NW, Washington, DC

AGENDA

THURSDAY, 8 OCTOBER 2009

SESSION 1: Statement of the problem from the research perspective—identification of opportunities and barriers
Chair: Cathy Wu, University of Delaware

8:45

Welcoming remarks and overview of the symposium

Cathy Wu,
University of Delaware

9:00 Microbiology in the 21st Century Joan Bennett,
Rutgers University
9:40 Digital science perspective - From Brains to Microbes Mark Ellisman,
UC, San Diego, CA
10:10 Coffee Break  
10:40 Industrial perspective: Development of an MTA harmonious with a Microbial Research Commons Stephen McCormack,
Exela, Inc., Claremont, CA
11:10 Developing country perspective: Microbial Research Commons Including Viruses Ashok Kolaskar,
University of Pune, India
11:40 Panel discussion of Session 1 speakers with other Symposium participants regarding the commonalities and potential conflicts among different groups/sectors
Suggested Citation:"Appendix A – Microbial Commons Symposium Agenda." National Research Council. 2011. Designing the Microbial Research Commons: Proceedings of an International Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13245.
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12:15 Lunch at the Academy

SESSION 2—Promoting access to and reuse of microbial materials Chair: James Staley, University of Washington

13:15

Designing a semicommons for materials in microbiology

Jerome Reichman,
Duke University Law School

13:45 Comments from different perspectives and panel discussion
 
  • Federal Government Culture Collection - The Agriculture Research Service Culture Collection (NRRL): Germplasm Accessions and Research Programs
    Cletus P. Kurtzman, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, USDA
  • Not-for-profit Culture Collection - ATCC: A Model for Biological Materials Resource Management
    Frank Simione, American Type Culture Collection
  • Legal - Contracting to Preserve Open Science: Lessons for a Microbial Research Commons
    Peter Lee, UC Davis School of Law
  • Economic - The Impact of Open Access Institutions on Life Sciences Research: Lessons from BRCs and Beyond
    Scott Stern, Northwestern University
15:30 Break

SESSION 3—Promoting access to and reuse of digital knowledge resources Chair: Michael Carroll, American University, Washington College of Law

16:00

Designing the digital commons in microbiology - Moving from Restrictive Dissemination of Publicly-Funded Knowledge to Open Knowledge Environments: A Case Study in Microbiology

Paul Uhlir,
National Research Council

16:30 Comments from different perspectives and panel discussion
 
  • Web applications - The Web-Enabled Research Commons: Applications, Goals, and Trends
    Thinh Nguyen, Creative Commons and Science Commons

  • Legal - Comments on Designing the Microbial Research Commons: Digital Knowledge Resources
    Katherine Strandburg, New York University Law School
  • Federal information policy - Toward a biomedical research commons: A view from NLM-NIH
    Jerry Sheehan, National Library of Medicine, NIH
Suggested Citation:"Appendix A – Microbial Commons Symposium Agenda." National Research Council. 2011. Designing the Microbial Research Commons: Proceedings of an International Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13245.
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  • Academic publications
    Frederick Rainey, Louisiana State University
  • Web information services - StrainInfo.net: Reducing Microbial Data Entropy
    Peter Dawyndt, Ghent University, Belgium
18:30 Dinner for the speakers in the Members’ Room

FRIDAY, 9 OCTOBER 2009

SESSION 4: Thematic focus on microbiology research and applications in energy and environment

8:30

The Materials Semicommons in Microbial Energy and Environmental Research and Applications

  Chair: Stephen McCormack, Excela, Inc.
 
  • Research funder- The Department of Energy: Genome Sciences Daniel Drell, Department of Energy
  • Researcher - Large Scale Microbial Ecology Cyberinfrastructure (CAMERA)
    Paul Gilna, UC San Diego
  • International cooperation - Proposal for a microbial semicommons: Perspectives from the International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups
    Flora Katz, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health
  • Intergovernmental organization - The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources
    Shakeel Bhatti, Food and Agriculture Organization
  • Institutional design - Microbial Commons: Governing Complex Knowledge Assets
    Minna Allarakhia, University of Waterloo, Canada
10:15 Coffee Break

10:45

The Digital Commons in Microbial Energy and Environmental Research and Applications
Chair: Micah Krichevsky, Bionomics International

 
  • Digital research - Microbial Genomics
    Nikos Kyrpides, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
  • Digital user - Accessing Microbiological Data: A User’s Perspective
    Mark Segal, Environmental Protection Agency
  • Academic journals - The Microbial Commons: Journals and Professional Societies
    Samuel Kaplan, UT Houston Medical School, and former Chair of the American Society for Microbiology’s Publications Board
  • Economic and institutional - Mitigating Anti-commons Constraints on
Suggested Citation:"Appendix A – Microbial Commons Symposium Agenda." National Research Council. 2011. Designing the Microbial Research Commons: Proceedings of an International Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13245.
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Global Scientific Research: A "bottom up" approach to instutitional reforms
Paul David, Stanford University

12:30 Lunch at the Academy

SESSION 5— Governance of the integrated microbiology commons
Chair: Paul Gilna, UC San Diego

13:30

Microbial Commons: Overview of the Governance Considerations - A Framework for Discussion

Tom Dedeurwaerdere,
UC Louvain, Belgium

14:00 Comments from different perspectives and panel discussion
 
  • Institutional design and Governance in Microbial Research Commons Charlotte Hess, Syracuse University
  • U.S. foreign policy - International Developments: A Context for the Creation of a Microbiology Commons
    Anita Eisenstadt, Department of State
  • International food and agriculture - Options for governing the microbial commons informed by the need to bridge the 1993 CBD divide
    Michael Halewood, Bioversity International, Italy
  • Access and Benefit Sharing under the CBD and access to materials for research
    Stefan Jungcurt, International Institute for Sustainable Development, Canada
15:45 Concluding remarks by the Symposium Chair Cathy Wu,
University of Delaware
16:00 End of meeting
Suggested Citation:"Appendix A – Microbial Commons Symposium Agenda." National Research Council. 2011. Designing the Microbial Research Commons: Proceedings of an International Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13245.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A – Microbial Commons Symposium Agenda." National Research Council. 2011. Designing the Microbial Research Commons: Proceedings of an International Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13245.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A – Microbial Commons Symposium Agenda." National Research Council. 2011. Designing the Microbial Research Commons: Proceedings of an International Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13245.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A – Microbial Commons Symposium Agenda." National Research Council. 2011. Designing the Microbial Research Commons: Proceedings of an International Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13245.
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Recent decades have witnessed an ever-increasing range and volume of digital data. All elements of the pillars of science--whether observation, experiment, or theory and modeling--are being transformed by the continuous cycle of generation, dissemination, and use of factual information. This is even more so in terms of the re-using and re-purposing of digital scientific data beyond the original intent of the data collectors, often with dramatic results.

We all know about the potential benefits and impacts of digital data, but we are also aware of the barriers, the challenges in maximizing the access, and use of such data. There is thus a need to think about how a data infrastructure can enhance capabilities for finding, using, and integrating information to accelerate discovery and innovation. How can we best implement an accessible, interoperable digital environment so that the data can be repeatedly used by a wide variety of users in different settings and with different applications?

With this objective: to use the microbial communities and microbial data, literature, and the research materials themselves as a test case, the Board on Research Data and Information held an International Symposium on Designing the Microbial Research Commons at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC on 8-9 October 2009. The symposium addressed topics such as models to lower the transaction costs and support access to and use of microbiological materials and digital resources from the perspective of publicly funded research, public-private interactions, and developing country concerns. The overall goal of the symposium was to stimulate more research and implementation of improved legal and institutional models for publicly funded research in microbiology.

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