Remarks, Approval of Minutes (April 1999)
Report on BIO Management Retreat
Dr. Gwen Jacobs, Chair

Report on Advisory Committee Chairs Meeting
Dr. W. Franklin Harris, Past Chair

Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA)
NSF Staff: Dr. James Edwards, Ms. Sonya Mallinoff
BIOAC GPRA Working Group:
Dr. Burt Ensley and Dr. Frank Harris, Co-Chairs

• BIO GPRA Performance Evaluation
  
  
• BIO FY 1999 Committees of Visitors
  • Division of Biological Infrastructure, Training and Research Resources Clusters
    Dr. Burt Ensley
  • Division of Environmental Biology, Division Review
    Dr. James Collins
  • Division of Integrative Biology and Neuroscience, Neuroscience Cluster
    Dr. Gwen Jacobs
  • Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences,
    Genetics Cluster and Biochemistry of Gene Expression
    Dr. Claire Fraser
    
    
• NSF Strategic Plan, FY 2000-2005
  

BIO Update/Current Issues
Dr. Mary Clutter

• BIO/NSF FY 2000 Budget

WORKING LUNCH
Discussion with Dr. Rita Colwell, Director, NSF

BIO Update/Current Issues (continued)

• Biocomplexity in the Environment
• Information Technology Research
• Plant Genome Research Program
• Task Force on the Environment Report

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BIO Update/Current Issues (continued)

• Report on Postdoctoral Research Fellowships:
  • Minority
  • Biological Informatics
  • Microbial Biology

BIOAC Activities
Dr. Marvalee Wake

• BIOAC Education Working Group

ADJOURN

Unmet Opportunities

• NEON - National Ecological Observatory Network
• Genomics
• 2010 Project
• Collaboratories/Networking Activities
• Nanotechnology
• Portfolio Balance
• Human Resources
  • Report on BIOAC Workshop: "Access by Minority Investigators to NSF Extramural Support," November 6, 1999, Atlanta, Georgia
    Dr. George Jones

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Unmet Opportunities Discussion (continued)

Future Business

• FY 2000 BIO Committee of Visitors
  • Division of Biological Infrastructure
    March 27-30, 2000
  • Division of Environment Biology, Systematic & Population Biology Cluster
    Week of August 14 or August 21, 2000
  • Division of Integrative Biology, Developmental Mechanisms Cluster
    Week of July 17 or July 24, 2000
  • Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, Biomolecular Structure and Function Cluster and Biomolecular Processes Cluster
    July 10-12, 2000
• Meeting Dates:
  Spring - April 6-7 or April 13-14, 2000
  Fall 2000

Working Group Meetings

• GPRA
• Education
• Others