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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Planning Meeting Agenda and Participant List." National Research Council. 2011. Research in the Life Sciences with Dual Use Potential: An International Faculty Development Project on Education About the Responsible Conduct of Science. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13270.
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Appendix D
Planning Meeting Agenda and Participant List

DEVELOPING A FRAMEWORK FOR AN INTERNATIONAL FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT ON EDUCATION ABOUT RESEARCH IN THE LIFE SCIENCES WITH DUAL USE POTENTIAL

May 30-June 1, 2011

TWAS, the academy of sciences for the developing world

Trieste, Italy

AGENDA

May 29: Informal reception/dinner

May 30: Relevant topics to the Education Institute and the report

The day will begin with an overview of the topics of the meeting through a series of presentations and discussions and will move on to focus on educational models of active learning. After the afternoon break, we will switch to modeling active participation techniques by engaging with an actual case study.

Open Data-Gathering Session

9:15-10:00: Breakfast

10:00: Opening Plenary

•   Welcome and Introduction of Participants

•   Welcome from Dr. Romain Murenzi, Executive Director, TWAS

•   Introduction to the National Research Council process - Lida Anestidou (NRC staff)

•   Charge to the Committee and outcomes of the planning meeting - Rita Colwell (Committee Chair)

•   Words from the sponsor: Putting the project in context - Jacqueline Smith (US Department of State)

11:15: Break

11:30: Culture of responsibility in science

•   Ethics of science and integrity in research - Elizabeth Heitman (Committee member)

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Planning Meeting Agenda and Participant List." National Research Council. 2011. Research in the Life Sciences with Dual Use Potential: An International Faculty Development Project on Education About the Responsible Conduct of Science. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13270.
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•   The development of biosafety in the context of responsible research – John Clements (Committee member)

•   Biosecurity and research with dual use potential – Nancy Connell and Adel Mahmoud (Committee members)

13:30: Lunch

14:30: Plenary – The Bibliotheca Alexandrina and its role in supporting the life sciences and Education. A talk by Ismail Serageldin

15:30: Break

15:45: Overview of active learning educational models

•   How People Learn - Jay Labov (NRC staff)

•   Train the trainers [in-person] - Nicoletta Previsani (WHO)

•   Train the trainers [online] - Simon Whitby (University of Bradford)

18:00: Adjourn

Tuesday May 31: Biosecurity and Education: Pedagogy of the Education Institute

Open Data-Gathering Session

8:30-9:15: Breakfast

9:15: The experience of a case study - Alastair Hay (U Leeds)

10:30: Break

10:45: The educational and research context in Egypt/MENA: the lay of the land

•   Regulations, government oversight, curriculum development and approval, responsibilities in grants and in higher education. This discussion will begin with facts about Egypt, but if time permits would be expanded to higher education in other countries of the MENA region: Mohamed El-Faham (Committee member) and Alaa Ibrahim (American U Cairo)

•   Biomedical ethics/RCR: Eiman Aleem (U Alexandria)

•   Teaching life sciences research in Egypt: Mona Mostafa Mohamed (Cairo University)

The rest of this day will be devoted to engaging with active learning exercises guided by Jim Stith and Clarissa Dirks (Committee members) and Jay Labov. The group will be split into smaller groups that will be working both collectively and in these smaller groups on the following topics:

12:00: Lunch

12:30: Backward Design: what it is; the development of topics; how to develop and use assessment methods (summative assessments, formative assessment using measurable verbs: “What do I want my students to do in this class, what message do I want them to take home, and how do I assess the impact of the class)” - Clarissa Dirks

13:30: Modeling of Backward Design through a Physics case study - Jim Stith

15:00: break

15:15: Applying backward design in education on science with dual-use potential: identify the major topics in research with dual use potential amenable to this approach; identify the outcomes of the educational institute in relation to d-u research; discuss summative assessments - Jay Labov

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Planning Meeting Agenda and Participant List." National Research Council. 2011. Research in the Life Sciences with Dual Use Potential: An International Faculty Development Project on Education About the Responsible Conduct of Science. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13270.
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16:00: Break into smaller group to discuss specific dual-use topics with set learning goals in mind (i.e., set the goals up front)

17:15: Expand on the relevant topics of dual use in biological sciences relevant to Egypt (and the MENA more broadly)

18:00: Adjourn

Wednesday June 1: Practical matters

Open Data-Gathering Session

8:30-9:30: Breakfast

9:30: Designing the Institute. The group will discuss the general educational approach to be employed in the first Institute.

•   A consistent message that the Education Institute should impart to the faculty/students during the event

•   Syllabus content and reading materials

•   Faculty of the Institute and assignments

•   Logistics of the Education Institute, including methods to select participants for the Institute

•   The Education Institute students

10:30: The participants will break into small groups; each group will be assigned one of the previous topics. The groups will think conceptually about the topics and will present their findings and recommendations to the plenary that follows [NOTE: rapporteurs will be assigned; there will be coffee and refreshments so that groups may take a break].

12:00: Plenary - reports from working groups on the five topics

13:30: Lunch

14:15: Plenary session-continued

15:45: Break

16:00: Final Plenary - Summing up and additional assignments

17:00: Adjourn

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Planning Meeting Agenda and Participant List." National Research Council. 2011. Research in the Life Sciences with Dual Use Potential: An International Faculty Development Project on Education About the Responsible Conduct of Science. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13270.
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PARTICIPANTS

COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Rita Colwell (Chair)

Distinguished University Professor

Center for Bioinformatics & Computational

Biology

University of Maryland, USA

Enriqueta Bond

President Emeritus

Burroughs Wellcome Fund, USA

John Clements

Professor and Chair

Department of Microbiology and

Immunology

Tulane University, USA

Nancy Connell

Professor of Infectious Disease

Department of Medicine

University of Medicine and Dentistry of

New Jersey, USA

Clarissa Dirks

Associate Professor

Department of Biology

The Evergreen State College, USA

Mohamed El-Faham

Director, Center for Special Studies and

Programs

The Library of Alexandria, Egypt

Elizabeth Heitman

Associate Professor of Medical Ethics

Center for Biomedical Ethics

Vanderbilt University Medical Center, USA

Adel Mahmoud

Professor

Woodrow Wilson School

Department of Molecular Biology

Princeton University, USA

James Stith

Vice President Emeritus

Physics Resources Center

American Institute of Physics

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Planning Meeting Agenda and Participant List." National Research Council. 2011. Research in the Life Sciences with Dual Use Potential: An International Faculty Development Project on Education About the Responsible Conduct of Science. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13270.
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INVITED PARTICIPANTS

Eiman Aleem

Associate Professor of Molecular Biology

Faculty of Science

University of Alexandria, Egypt

Cathy Bollaert

Online Learning Development Officer

Bradford Disarmament Research Centre

University of Bradford, UK

Andrzej Górski

Vice President

Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Alastair Hay

Professor

LIGHT Laboratories

University of Leeds, UK

Alaa Ibrahim

Assistant Professor

Physics Department

American University in Cairo, Egypt

Joseph Kanabrocki

Assistant Dean for Biosafety

Associate Professor of Microbiology

Biological Sciences Division

University of Chicago, USA

Jens Kuhn

Lead Virologist

Integrated Research Facility

Fort Detrick, USA

Giulio Mancini

Programme Officer and Analyst

Landau Network-Centro Volta

Italy

Mona Mostafa Mohamed

Associate Professor

Department of Zoology

Cairo University, Egypt

Iqbal Parker

Director

International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Cape Town Component

South Africa

Nicoletta Previsani

International Health Regulations

Coordination

World Health Organization

Ismail Serageldin

Director, Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Egypt

Jacqueline Smith

Biosecurity Engagement Program

U.S. Department of State

Simon Whitby

Research Councils UK Senior Research Fellow

Director, Bradford Disarmament Research Centre

University of Bradford, UK

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Planning Meeting Agenda and Participant List." National Research Council. 2011. Research in the Life Sciences with Dual Use Potential: An International Faculty Development Project on Education About the Responsible Conduct of Science. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13270.
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NATIONAL ACADEMIES STAFF

Lida Anestidou

Senior Program Officer

The National Academy of Sciences

USA

Jo Husbands

Scholar/Senior Project Director

The National Academy of Sciences

USA

Jay Labov

Senior Scientist

The National Academy of Sciences

USA

Carl-Gustav Anderson

Program Associate

The National Academy of Sciences

USA

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Planning Meeting Agenda and Participant List." National Research Council. 2011. Research in the Life Sciences with Dual Use Potential: An International Faculty Development Project on Education About the Responsible Conduct of Science. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13270.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Planning Meeting Agenda and Participant List." National Research Council. 2011. Research in the Life Sciences with Dual Use Potential: An International Faculty Development Project on Education About the Responsible Conduct of Science. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13270.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Planning Meeting Agenda and Participant List." National Research Council. 2011. Research in the Life Sciences with Dual Use Potential: An International Faculty Development Project on Education About the Responsible Conduct of Science. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13270.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Planning Meeting Agenda and Participant List." National Research Council. 2011. Research in the Life Sciences with Dual Use Potential: An International Faculty Development Project on Education About the Responsible Conduct of Science. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13270.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Planning Meeting Agenda and Participant List." National Research Council. 2011. Research in the Life Sciences with Dual Use Potential: An International Faculty Development Project on Education About the Responsible Conduct of Science. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13270.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Planning Meeting Agenda and Participant List." National Research Council. 2011. Research in the Life Sciences with Dual Use Potential: An International Faculty Development Project on Education About the Responsible Conduct of Science. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13270.
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In many countries, colleges and universities are where the majority of innovative research is done; in all cases, they are where future scientists receive both their initial training and their initial introduction to the norms of scientific conduct regardless of their eventual career paths. Thus, institutions of higher education are particularly relevant to the tasks of education on research with dual use potential, whether for faculty, postdoctoral researchers, graduate and undergraduate students, or technical staff.

Research in the Life Sciences with Dual Use Potential describes the outcomes of the planning meeting for a two-year project to develop a network of faculty who will be able to teach the challenges of research in the life sciences with dual use potential. Faculty will be able to incorporate such concepts into their teaching and research through exposure to the tenets of responsible conduct of research in active learning teaching methods. This report is intended to provide guidelines for that effort and to be applicable to any country wishing to adopt this educational model that combines principles of active learning and training with attention to norms of responsible science. The potential audiences include a broad array of current and future scientists and the policymakers who develop laws and regulations around issues of dual use.

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