| Tuesday |
April
20, 2004 |
| 1:30 PM |
Welcome
Dr. Mary E. Clutter, Assistant Director
|
 |
| 1:40 PM |
Remarks, Approval of Minutes
Dr. James Collins, Chair
|
|
| 1:45 PM |
Directorate Update - Budget
and Current Issues
Dr. Mary E. Clutter
|
|
| 2:15 PM |
BIO Division Reorganizations
- Division of Environmental Biology
Dr. Michael Willig, Division Director
- Division of Integrative Biology and Neuroscience
Dr. Judith Verbeke, Acting Division Director
|
|
| 2:45 PM |
National Ecological Observatory
Network (NEON) Status
Dr. Elizabeth Blood, Program Director, NEON
|
|
| 3:15 PM |
BREAK
|
|
| 3:30 PM |
Dr. Arden Bement,
Acting Director, NSF
|
|
| 4:15 PM |
BIO Education Activities
- Report on Joint meeting of EHR/MPS/BIO Advisory Committees
Dr. Thomas Brady, BIOAC
- Presentation of BIO Education Plan
Dr. Penelope Firth, Acting Deputy Division Director, DEB
- Discussion and Recommendation
BIOAC
|
|
| 5:30 PM |
Reception with BIO Program
Officers, Room 605
|
| Wednesday |
April
21, 2004 |
Long Range
Planning |
|
| 9:00 AM |
Setting the Stage
Dr. Mary E. Clutter and Dr. Joann Roskoski
|
|
| 9:30 AM |
BIO Leading Edge Presentations:
- Biodiversity
Introduction - Dr. Michael Willig
Presenter - Dr. James Woolley
|
|
| 10:10 AM |
- Comparative and Integrative
Biology: Linking Understanding
Across Scales, Disciplines and Paradigms
Introduction - Dr. Judith Verbeke
Presenter - Dr. Jane Brockmann
|
|
| 10:50 AM |
BREAK
|
|
| 11:05 AM |
- Opportunities in Genomics
Introduction - Dr. Maryanna Henkart
Presenter - Dr. Joanne Tornow
|
|
| 11:45 AM |
- Predictive Biology
Introduction - Dr. Machi Dilworth
Presenter - Dr. Parag Chitnis
|
|
| 12:30 PM |
WORKING LUNCH
|
|
| 1:30 PM |
BIO Cyberinfrastructure
Strategy Development
- Report on NSB Workshops on Long-Lived Data Collections
November 18, 2003 and March 23, 2004
Dr. Christopher Greer, Program Director, DBI
- Update on BIOAC
Workshop, "Building
a Cyberinfrastructure for Biology"
Dr. John Wooley, BIOAC
- BIO Cyberinfrastructure Working Group
Dr. Michael WIllig, Division Director, DEB
|
|
| 3:00 PM |
BIOAC Recommended Directions
for BIO
|
|
| 3:30 PM |
Future Business
- COV Representatives:
Division of Biological Infrastructure, June 16-18, 2004
Plant Genome Research Program, August 4-6, 2004
- Fall Meeting:
November 4-5 or 18-19, 2004
ADJOURN |
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