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Workshop on Key Challenges in the Implementation of Convergence: Agenda and Participants
AGENDA |
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September 16 | |
8:00 |
Welcome
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8:30 |
Recognizing Emerging Areas of Science at the Convergence Interface
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9:00 |
Establishing Background and Introduction to the Examples of Convergent and Transdisciplinary Science
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9:30 |
Break |
Fostering Convergence in the Real World
How can the goals of convergence translate into practical results; that is, what have groups and organizations specifically done to support and foster convergence-enabled science? What has worked well and what has not worked as well? Speakers representing several different perspectives will provide brief snapshots of what they did, what challenges they faced, and what they learned.
9:45 |
The ecosystem of convergent research and innovation in the life sciences: Cherry Murray (NAS, NAE), Harvard University |
10:00 |
Key Organizational Structures and Needs |
convergent research such as organizational policies and support structures, strategies to address differences in research practices from bringing diverse communities together, and physical and technical components.
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11:00 |
Faculty Issues
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12:00 | Working Lunch and Activity |
If you could recommend one action each of the following actors could take that would best facilitate convergent research, what action would that be? Please try to identify a recommended action for at least two of the following categories. Write your answers on the provided post-it notes and affix them to the space beneath the name of the actor: a) Institutions (e.g., universities, professional associations, nonprofits) b) Units/Departments c) Principal Investigators/Team Leaders d) Educators e) Postdoctoral Fellows and Students f) Funding Agencies g) Journal Editors |
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1:00 |
Challenges of Convergent Thinking and Innovation Chair: Carol Folt, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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1:30 |
Education and Training Chair: Lynne Regan, Yale University Session goal: Speakers in this session will highlight issues surrounding the education and training of students. Issues might include ensuring students get the breadth of training and experience to work in a multidisciplinary setting but sufficient subject expertise for a major; how to issue degrees that span multiple departments or institutions; or other areas.
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2:30 |
Interinstitutional Arrangements and Partnerships Chair: Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan Session goal: Speakers in this session will particularly discuss arrangements that span institutions.
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3:30 | Brief Break and Move to Small-Group Discussion Sections |
3:45 |
Discussion Sessions |
GROUP A: Key Organizational Structures and Needs
Chair: Robert Nerem (NAE, IOM), Georgia Institute of Technology
Rapporteur: Adah Almutairi, University of California San Diego
- GROUP B: Faculty Issues
Chair: Carl Simon, University of Michigan
Rapporteur: Joshua Kritzer, Tufts University
- GROUP C: Education and Training
Chair: Emery Brown (IOM), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rapporteur: Jasmine Foo, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
- GROUP D: Interinstitutional Arrangements and Partnerships
Chair: Matthew Tirrell (NAE), University of Chicago
Rapporteur: Manu Platt, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University
5:30 |
Adjourn for Day |
September 17
8:15 | Introduction to Day 2: Joseph DeSimone, Committee Chair |
8:30 |
Feedback from the Breakout Groups |
9:30 |
Funding Models
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• Dinah Singer, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health • Joann Roskoski, Directorate for Biological Sciences, National Science Foundation • Maria Pellegrini, W.M. Keck Foundation |
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10:30 |
Break |
10:45 |
Plenary: Roadmap for the Future |
12:15 |
Concluding Remarks: Joseph DeSimone, Committee Chair |
12:30 |
Workshop Adjourns |
PARTICIPANT LIST
Margaret Ackerman
Assistant Professor
Thayer School of Engineering
Dartmouth College
Adah Almutairi
Associate Professor
Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of California, San Diego
Joseph Alper
Consulting Science Writer
Adam Arkin
Dean A. Richard Newton Memorial Professor, Department of Bioengineering
University of California, Berkeley
Director, Physical Biosciences Division
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Amanda Arnold
Senior Policy Advisor
MIT Washington Office
Ann Arvin
Vice Provost and Dean of Research
Lucile Salter Packard Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Microbiology & Immunology
Stanford University
Dennis Ausiello
Director, Center for Assessment Technology and Continuous Health
Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Chief, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Randy Avent
Professor, Department of Computer Science
Associate Vice Chancellor for Research Development
North Carolina State University
Roberto Barbero
AAAS Fellow
Technology and Innovation Division
Office of Science and Technology Policy
Executive Office of the President
Anna Barker
Professor and Director, Transformative Healthcare Networks
Co-Director, Complex Adaptive Systems Network
Arizona State University
Cynthia Bauerle
Assistant Director
Undergraduate and Graduate Education
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Ann Beheler
Executive Director of Emerging Technology Grants
Collin College
Rena Bizios
Peter T. Flawn Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Texas at San Antonio
Krastan Blagoev
Program Director, Physics of Living Systems
Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences
National Science Foundation
William B. Bonvillian
Director
MIT Washington Office
Emery Brown
Professor of Computational Neuroscience and Health Sciences and Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anesthesia
Harvard Medical School
David Canter
Executive Director
North Campus Research Complex
University of Michigan
Ruben Carbonell
Director
William R. Kenan, Jr. Institute for Engineering, Technology & Science
North Carolina State University
V. Celeste Carter
Program Director
Advanced Technological Education Program
Directorate for Education & Human Resources
National Science Foundation
Miyoung Chun
Executive Vice President of Science Programs
The Kavli Foundation
Ralph Cicerone
President
National Academy of Sciences
Lee Ann Clements
Professor of Biology and Marine Science
Chair, Division of Science and Mathematics
Jacksonville University
James Collins
William F. Warren Distinguished Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Boston University
Clark Cooper
Senior Advisor for Science and Head of the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities
Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences
National Science Foundation
Joseph DeSimone
Director, Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise
Chancellor’s Eminent Professor of Chemistry, University of North Carolina (UNC)
William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, NC State University and of Chemistry, UNC
Raymond DuBois
Executive Director
Biodesign Institute
Arizona State University
Jennifer Elisseeff
Jules Stein Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering and Wilmer Eye Institute
Johns Hopkins University
Pelagie Favi
Graduate Student
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Tennessee
Harvey Fineberg
President
Institute of Medicine
Michael Fisher
Distinguished University Professor and Regents Professor
Institute for Physical Science and Technology and Department of Physics
University of Maryland
Carol Folt
Chancellor
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Jasmine Foo
McKnight Land Grant Assistant Professor of Mathematics
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Cathy Fromen
Graduate Student
Department of Chemical Engineering
North Carolina State University
Timothy Galitski
Head of Science & Technology
EMD Millipore Corporation
Affiliate Professor
Institute for Systems Biology
James Gentile
Dean for the Natural and Applied Sciences
Hope College
Ronald Germain
Chief, Lymphocyte Biology Section
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health
Sharon Glotzer
S. W. Churchill Collegiate Professor of Chemical Engineering
Professor of Materials Science & Engineering
Professor of Physics, Applied Physics and Macromolecular Science & Engineering
University of Michigan
Piotr Grodzinski
Director, Office of Cancer Nanotechnology Research
National Cancer Institute
National Institutes of Health
Xue Han
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Boston University
William Harris
President and CEO
Science Foundation Arizona
James Zachary Hilt
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Kentucky
Margaret Hilton
Senior Program Officer
Board on Science Education
National Research Council
Susan Hockfield
Professor of Neuroscience and President Emeritus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kathryn Hughes
Senior Program Officer
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology
National Research Council
Lynn Hull
AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow
Office of Cancer Nanotechnology Research
National Cancer Institute
National Institutes of Health
Donald Ingber
Director, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology, Harvard Medical School & Boston Children’s Hospital
Professor of Bioengineering
Harvard University
Ravi Iyengar
Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics
Director, Experimental Therapeutics Institute
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Thomas Kalil
Deputy Director for Technology and Innovation
Technology and Innovation Division
Office of Science and Technology Policy
Executive Office of the President
Lydia Kavraki
Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science and Bioengineering
Rice University
Rusty Kelley
Program Officer
Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Regis Kelly
Director
California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3)
Melissa Kinney
Graduate Student
Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering & Bioscience
Georgia Institute of Technology
Joshua Kritzer
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Tufts University
Joerg Lahann
Director, Biointerfaces Institute
University of Michigan
Cato Laurencin
Wilda Van Dusen Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Professor of Chemical, Materials and Biomolecular Engineering
CEO, Connecticut Institute for Clinical and Translational Science
Director, Institute for Regenerative Engineering
University of Connecticut
Jerry Lee
Deputy Director
Center for Strategic Scientific Initiatives
National Cancer Institute
National Institutes of Health
Jon R. Lorsch
Director
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
National Institutes of Health
Gesham Magombedze
Postdoctoral Fellow
National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS)
University of Tennessee
Arun Majumdar
Director of Energy Initiatives
Fernando Martinez
Director, BIO5 Institute
University of Arizona
Marcia K. McNutt
Editor in Chief, Science
American Association for the Advancement of Science
William Miller
Program Director
Directorate for Biological Sciences
National Science Foundation
Adrienne Minerick
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Michigan Technological University
Martha Mitchell
Associate Dean of Research
College of Engineering
New Mexico State University
Simon Mochrie
Professor of Physics and Applied Physics
Yale University
C.D. Mote, Jr.
President
National Academy of Engineering
Kelly Moynihan
Graduate Student
Department of Biological Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sarah Mueller
Graduate Student
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Cherry Murray
Dean
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University
Larry Nagahara
Director, Office of Physical Sciences-Oncology
National Cancer Institute
National Institutes of Health
Eric Nawrocki
Bioinformatics Specialist
Janelia Farm Research Campus
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Robert Nerem
Parker H. Petit Distinguished Chair for Engineering in Medicine and Institute Professor Emeritus
Former Director, Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience
Georgia Institute of Technology
Corey O’Hern
Associate Professor
Departments of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science and Physics
Yale University
Monica Olvera de la Cruz
Lawyer Taylor Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Director, Materials Research Center
Northwestern University
Maria Pellegrini
Executive Director of Programs
W. M. Keck Foundation
Nicholas Peppas
Fletcher Stuckey Pratt Chair in Engineering
Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Professor, Departments of Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and College of Pharmacy
University of Texas at Austin
James Petersson
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of Pennsylvania
Roderick Pettigrew
Director
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
National Institutes of Health
Rember Pieper
Associate Professor,
J. Craig Venter Institute
Manu Platt
Assistant Professor
Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Manu Prakash
Assistant Professor
Department of Bioengineering
Stanford University
Lynne Regan
Professor
Departments of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry and Chemistry
Yale University
Proctor Reid
Program Director
National Academy of Engineering
Gary Reiness
Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences;
Professor of Biology
Lewis & Clark College
Sandra Robinson
Graduate Student
Department of Biology
University of Massachusetts Amherst
David Roessner
Senior Fellow
Center for Science, Technology, and Economic Development
SRI International
Joann Roskoski
Deputy Assistant Director
Directorate for Biological Sciences
National Science Foundation
Gerald Rubin
Executive Director
Janelia Farm Research Campus
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Pamela J. Schofield
Manager, Corporate Research & Development
The Procter & Gamble Company
Belinda Seto
Deputy Director
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
National Institutes of Health
Armon Sharei
Graduate Student
Department of Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Phillip Sharp
Institute Professor
Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lindsey Sharpe
Graduate Student
Cockrell School of Engineering
University of Texas at Austin
Carla J. Shatz
Director, Bio-X
Professor of Biology and Neurobiology
Stanford University
Kamal Shukla
Program Director, Molecular Biophysics
Directorate for Biological Sciences
National Science Foundation
Carl Simon
Founding Director, Center for the Study of Complex Systems
Professor of Mathematics, Economics, and Public Policy
University of Michigan
Dinah Singer
Head, Molecular Regulation Section
Director, Division of Cancer Biology
National Cancer Institute
National Institutes of Health
Susan Singer
Laurence McKinley Gould Professor
Departments of Biology and Cognitive Science
Carleton College
Director, Division of Undergraduate Education
National Science Foundation
Daniel Solomon
Dean, College of Sciences
North Carolina State University
Nelson Spruston
Scientific Program Director and Laboratory Head
Janelia Farm Research Campus
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Stephanie Steichen
Graduate Student
Cockrell School of Engineering
University of Texas at Austin
Andrea L. Stith
Assistant Director for Interdisciplinary Education
BioFrontiers Institute
University of Colorado
Umesh Thakkar
U.S. Government Accountability Office
Katerina Thompson
Director
Undergraduate Research and Internship Programs
College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences
University of Maryland College Park
Julie Thompson Klein
Professor of Humanities; and
English Department Faculty Fellow for Interdisciplinary Development
Wayne State University
Matthew Tirrell
Pritzker Director
Institute for Molecular Engineering
University of Chicago
Robert Tjian
President
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hannah Valantine
Senior Associate Dean for Diversity and Leadership
Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine
Amy Cheng Vollmer
Professor of Biology
Swarthmore College
Geoffrey von Maltzen
New Venture Principal
Flagship Ventures
Evan Vosburgh
Executive Director
Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation
Vivek Wadhwa
Vice President of Innovation and Research
Singularity University
Bruce Walker
Director
Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard
Tina Winters
Associate Program Officer
Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences
National Research Council
Jodi Yellin
Director, Group on Graduate Research and Education
Association of American Medical Colleges
Dorothy Zolandz
Deputy Director
Division on Earth and Life Studies
National Research Council
Board on Life Sciences Staff
Frances Sharples
Director
Board on Life Sciences
National Research Council
fsharples@nas.edu
Katherine Bowman
Senior Program Officer
Board on Life Sciences
National Research Council
kbowman@nas.edu
Carl Anderson
Program Associate
Board on Life Sciences
National Research Council
cganderson@nas.edu
Ayesha Ahmed
Senior Program Assistant
Board on Life Sciences
National Research Council
sahmed@nas.edu
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