Welcome & Introduction

8:00 - 8:30 a.m.

C. Kumar N. Patel, University of California, Los Angeles, Calif.

“Building an Intermediate-Scale Research Infrastructure to Tackle Big Problems”

Infectious Diseases

8:30 - 10:30 a.m.

James M. Hughes, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga.

“Addressing Emerging Infectious Diseases, Food Safety, and Bioterrorism: Common Themes”

Jeffery K. Taubenberger, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, D.C.

“Sequencing Influenza A from the 1918 Pandemic, Investigating Its Virulence, and Predicting Future Outbreaks”

Nancy J. Cox, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga.

“Expanding the Worldwide Influenza Surveillance System and Improving the Selection of Strains for Vaccines”

Roy M. Anderson, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K. “The Interplay of Mathematical Models and Laboratory Experiments in Infectious Disease Research”

Infectious Diseases

11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Ariel Pablos-Mendez, Columbia College of Physicians, New York, N.Y.

“Next Steps in the Global Surveillance for Antituberculosis Drug Resistance ”

Gary K. Schoolnik, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif.

“Functional Genomics by Microarray Hybridization and the Drug-Discovery Process: The INH Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Paradigm”

Scott P. Layne, University of California, Los Angeles

“Laboratory Firepower: Batch Science via the Internet”

Questions & Answers

12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Auditorium

Infectious Diseases/Technologies

2:00 - 3:30 p.m.

David J. Lipman, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Md.

“The I/O of High-Throughput Biology: Experience of the National Center for Biotechnology Information”

Peter L. Nara, Biological Mimetics Inc., Frederick, Md.

“Key Assays and Data for HIV Research and Development Efforts”

Gary J. Nabel, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor “Developing Therapies and Vaccines for HIV/AIDS and Emerging Infectious Diseases”

Food Supply/Technologies

4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

John C. Bailar III, University of Chicago, Ill.

“Ensuring Safe Food: An Organizational Perspective”

Joseph Rodricks, Life Sciences Consultancy, Washington, D.C.

“Ensuring Safe Food: Risk Assessments and Data Needs”

Bala Swaminathan, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga.

“Food Pathogen Diagnostics from Public Health and Bioterrorism-Preparedness Standpoints”

Tony J. Beugelsdijk, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, N. Mex.

“Standard Laboratory Modules for Batch Science via the Internet”

Questions & Answers

6:00 - 6:30 p.m.

Auditorium

Biowarfare & Bioterrorism

8:00 - 10:00 a.m..

William C. Patrick III, BioThreats Assessment, Frederick, Md.

“Biological Warfare Scenarios”

Ken Alibek, Hadron Inc., Annandale, Va.

“Scenarios for Biological Weapons Effects”

Gerald Parker, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Frederick, Md.

“Front-Line Responses to Biowarfare and Bioterrorism Pathogens”

Ashton B. Carter, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. “National Innovations to Combat Catastrophic Terrorism”

Biowarfare & Bioterrorism/Technologies

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Thomas Marr, Genomica Corporation, Boulder, Colo.

“New Technologies for High-Throughput Genetic Characterization and Functional Analysis”

James H. Jett, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, N. Mex.

“Flow Cytometric Detection Methods for High-Throughput Research”

Stephen S. Morse, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Arlington, Va.

“Developing Advanced Diagnostics for Detecting Pathogens: Applications in High-Throughput Research”

Questions & Answers

12:00 - 12:30 p.m.

Auditorium

Further Applications/Technologies

1:30 - 3:30 p.m.

David J. Galas, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences, Claremont, Calif.

“Integrating Key Technologies for the Future of the Life Sciences”

Leena Peltonen, University of California, Los Angeles

“Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine: How Technologies Provide New Views on Health and Disease”

Gary W. Kramer, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Md.

“New Standards and Approaches for Integrating Instruments into Laboratory Automation Systems”

Randall Murch, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington, D.C.

“The FBI Laboratory Bioterrorism Program”

Further Applications/Technologies

4:00 - 5:30 p.m.

J. Michael Ramsey, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tenn.

“Lab-on-a-Chip Devices for High-Throughput Biochemical Experimentation ”

Willem Stemmer, Maxygen Inc., Redwood City, Calif.

“DNA Shuffling, DNA Vaccines, and Rapid-Design Strategies”

J. Craig Venter, Celera Genomics, Rockville, Md.

“High-Throughput Sequencing, Information Generation, and the Future of Biology”

Questions & Answers

5:30 - 6:00 p.m.

Auditorium