8:30 - 9:00 AM: Swearing-in Ceremony

Kathleen Sebelius
Secretary
Department of Health and Human Services

Howard K. Koh, M.D., MPH
Assistant Secretary for Health
Department of Health and Human Services

9:00 - 9:30 AM: Welcome and Introductions

9:30 - 10:30 AM: Session 1: Overview and Context of the Science and Technology

Drew Endy, Ph.D.
Terman Fellow & Asst. Professor of Bioengineering
Stanford University
Director
BIOFAB: International Open Facility Advancing Biotechnology
President
The BioBricks Foundation

Bonnie L. Bassler, Ph.D.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Squibb Professor
Dept. of Molecular Biology
Princeton University
President
American Society for Microbiology

Robert Carlson, Ph.D.
Principal
Biodesic

10:30 - 10:45 AM: Break

10:45 AM - 12:30 PM: Session 2: Applications

J. Craig Venter, Ph.D.
Founder and President
J. Craig Venter Institute

George Church, Ph.D.
Professor of Genetics
Harvard Medical School

Kristala L. J. Prather, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

12:30 - 1:45 PM: Lunch

1:45 - 3:00 PM: Session 3: Benefits and Risks

Allison Snow, Ph.D.
Dept. of Evolution, Ecology & Organismal Biology
Ohio State University

Jim Thomas
Programme Manager
ETC Group

Nancy M.P. King, J.D.
Professor
Dept. of Social Sciences and Health Policy
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Co-Director
WFU Center for Bioethics, Health, and Society

3:00 - 4:00 PM: Session 4: Ethics

Gregory Kaebnick, Ph.D.
Research Scholar
The Hastings Center
Editor
The Hastings Center Report

Allen Buchanan, Ph.D.
James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy
Duke University
Investigator
Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy
Duke University
Distinguished Research Associate
Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford

4:00 - 4:15 PM: Break

4:15 - 5:15 PM: Session 5: Plenary

Speakers Roundtable
Moderated by Amy Gutmann, Ph.D.

9:00 - 10:30 AM: Session 6: Ethics

David Rejeski
Director
Science and Technology Innovation Program
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Markus Schmidt, Ph.D.
Co-founder
Organisation for International Dialogue and Conflict Management
Vienna, Austria

Paul Root Wolpe, Ph.D.
Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Bioethics
Director
Center for Ethics
Emory University

10:30 - 10:45 AM: Break

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM: Session 7: Federal Oversight

Amy Patterson, M.D.
Acting Director
Office of Science Policy
Director
Office of Biotechnology Activities
National Institutes of Health

Michael Rodemeyer, J.D.
Lecturer
Dept. of Science, Technology & Society
School of Engineering and Applied Science
University of Virginia

Edward H. You
Supervisory Special Agent
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate
Countermeasures Unit I
Bioterrorism Prevention Program