Appendix A
Workshop Presentations and Participants
PRESENTATIONS
Directed Evolution for Development and Production of Bioactive Agents
February 21-22, 2013
Washington, D.C.
Protein Switches and the Genetic Code
Marc Ostermeier, Professor and Vice Chair, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
Directed Evolution of New Viruses for Gene Therapy
David Schaffer, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Bioengineering, and Neuroscience
University of California, Berkeley
Expanding the Synthetic Capabilities of Yeast
Virginia W. Cornish, Helena Rubinstein Professor, Departments of Chemistry and Systems Biology
Columbia University
One Handful of Soil: 10,000,000,000 Microbes, 100,000 Different Species
Michael Fischbach, Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences
University of California, San Francisco
Digital Chemistry: The Fabrication and Application of Ordered Molecular Arrays
Neal Woodbury, Co-Director of the Center for Innovations in Medicine, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Arizona State University
Cell-Penetrating Mini-Proteins
Gregory L. Verdine, Erving Professor of Chemistry
Harvard University
PARTICIPANTS
Committee
Mikhail Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley
Speakers
Virginia W. Cornish, Columbia University
Michael Fischbach, University of California, San Francisco
Marc Ostermeier, Johns Hopkins University
David Schaffer, University of California, Berkeley
Gregory L. Verdine, Harvard University
Neal Woodbury, Arizona State University
Staff
Terry Jaggers, Board Director
Daniel Talmage, Study Director
Dionna Ali, Senior Program Assistant
Agencies Represented
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Defense Intelligence Agency
