Final Agenda 

Bio sketches for SF workshop 

Abstracts for SF workshop 

Co-Chairs:

Lydia Villa-Komaroff, Ph.D., CEO, Cytonome, Inc.
Lene Lange, Ph.D., Prof., University of Aallborg

23 June 2009

9:00 Introductions and Welcome

• UCSF host representative
• Judith St. John, US Chair of the EC US Task Force on Biotechnology Research
• Line Matthiessen-Guyader  411 KB , Directorate for Biotechnology, Agriculture and Food Research, European Commission’s Research Directorate-General, EC Executive Secretary of the EC US Task Force on Biotechnology Research

9:15

Session 1:  Setting the Stage

• Lydia Villa-Komaroff, Ph.D., CEO, Cytonome, Inc., USA
• Lene Lange, Ph.D., Prof., University of Aalborg, Denmark

9:45

Session 2:  Women in Academic Biosciences

Chair and introduction:  Lene Lange  240 KB ,Ph.D., Prof., University of Aalborg, Denmark

Rapporteurs: Prof. Dr. Tamara Lah Tunrsek, Managing Director at the National Institute of Biology, Slovenia; Kay Simmons, USDA/ARS, USA

• Elizabeth Hood  4.3 MB , Ph.D., Professor, Arkansas State University, US
• Andrew Collins  32.0 MB , Professor, Department of Nutrition School of Medicine, Oslo University, Norway  
• Fiona Murray  66 KB , Ph.D., Professor, MIT, USA
• Prof. Petro Terblanche  [PSX] 2.1 MB , Medical Research Council, South Africa

12:30 Lunch

14:00

Session 3:  Women in Biotechnology Industry

Chair and introduction:  Lydia Villa-Komaroff,Ph.D., Cytonome, Inc., USA

Rapporteur: Dan Jones, USDA/CSREES, USA

• Birgitte Ahring, Biogasol, Denmark
• Alicia Loffler  1.9 MB , Director of the Biotech Center at Kellogg Business School, USA

• Laurel Smith-Doerr  153 KB , Ph.D., NSF and Boston University, USA

15:30

Session 4: Women as Biotechnology Entrepreneurs

Chair and introduction: Frederique Clavel  896 KB , Paris PIONNIERES, France

Rapporteur:  Bill Orts, USDA, USA

• Carmen Vela  15.8 MB , Managing Director, Ingenasa, Spain
• Karen Talmadge  4.8 MB , founder Kyphon, USA
• Dr. Sudha Nair  3.3 MB , Research Foundation and Golden Jubilee Biotech Park for Women Society,India

17:00 Return to hotel for dinner

19:00 Dinner (for invited participants)

24 June 2009

8:30

Session 5: Globalisation in Biotechnology Research and Women’s Careers

Chair and introduction: Nancy Hawkins, Simon Fraser University, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Canada

Rapporteur: Flavia Zucco, CNR, Istituto di Neurobiologia e Medicina Molecolar, Italy  

• Privahini Bradoo  198 KB , Ph.D., MBA, VP Business Development, LanzaTech, Inc.

• Frederique Clavel, Paris PIONNIERES, France 
• Natalie Dinicola  4.9 MB , Monsanto, Inc., St. Louis, MO, USA
• Steve Casper  192 KB , Keck Grad School, USA

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00

Session 6: EC-US Task Force: Where do we go from here?

a. Rapporteurs’ reports from Sessions 2 through 5

b. What are the recommendations to policy makers? What are the potential contributions of the Task Force in this arena?

Group discussion, conclusions, and recommendations

Panel:

• Judith St. John, US Chair of the EC US Task Force on Biotechnology Research
• Line Matthiessen-Guyader, EC Executive Secretary of the EC US Task Force on Biotechnology Research
• Lydia Villa-Komaroff, Ph.D., CEO, Cytonome, Inc.
• Lene Lange  242 KB , Ph.D., Prof., University of Aalborg  

13:00 Lunch/Adjourn