Conference Agenda
Monday, April 7th
9:00 AM
Welcome Remarks
Michael Gottesman
Deputy Director for Intramural Research, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD
Donald A. B. Lindberg
Director, National Library of Medicine (NLM), NIH, Bethesda, MD
Session Chair
Francis Ouellette
Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Canada
9:30 AM
Rich Roberts
Chief Scientific Officer, New England Biolabs, Beverly, MA
"The Importance of Open Access to Data and Literature"
10:15 AM
Bruno J. Strasser
Assistant Professor of History of Science and Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT
"Property, Privacy and Priority: A History of GenBank (1965-1982)"
11:00 AM
Coffee Break
11:15 AM
Graham Cameron
Associate Director, European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), Hinxton, United Kingdom
"EMBL, GenBank, DDBJ - The Early Days"
Takashi Gojobori
Vice-Director and Professor, Center for International Biology & DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ); National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan
"DDBJ, GenBank and EMBL, and Sequencing Revolution"
Christian Burks
President and CEO, Ontario Genomics Institute, Toronto, Canada
"GenBank’s Early Days"
12:30 PM
Lunch
Session Chair
David Landsman
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), NLM, NIH, Bethesda, MD
1:30 PM
Charles DeLisi
Metcalf Professor of Science and Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA
2:15 PM
James Ostell
Chief, Information Engineering Branch, NCBI, NLM, NIH, Bethesda, MD
"GenBank at NCBI"
3:00 PM
Coffee Break
3:15 PM
David Botstein
Director, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
"Genomics, Computation and the Nature of Biological Understanding"
4:00 PM
J. Craig Venter
President, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD
"Genomics: From Human to the Environment"

Tuesday, April 8th
Session Chair
Steven Salzberg
University of Maryland, College Park, MD
9:00 AM
Sydney Brenner
Salk Institute, San Diego, CA
9:45 AM
David Relman
Associate Professor of Medicine and of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
"Why You Are Never Alone at Night: Human-Microbial Symbiosis"
10:30 AM
Coffee Break
10:45 AM
Elizabeth Nabel
Director, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), NIH, Bethesda, MD
11:30 AM
Francis Collins
Director, National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), NIH, Bethesda, MD
"Genomics, Medicine, and Society"
12:15 PM
Lunch
Session Chair
Kent Smith
NCBI, NLM, NIH, Bethesda, MD
1:15 PM
Sharon Terry
President and CEO, Genetic Alliance, Washington, DC
"Genetic Alliance BioBank: Enabling Biomedical Research"
2:00 PM
David Lipman
Director, NCBI, NLM, NIH, Bethesda, MD
"GenBank’s Greatest Hits: A Sampling of Discoveries"
Organizing Committee
David Landsman
David Lipman
Alan Graeff
Dennis Benson
Jo McEntyre
Ilene Mizrachi
James Ostell
Kent Smith
David Wheeler