GenBank - Celebrates 25 Years of Service

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Monday, April 7th
SESSION CHAIR	Francis Ouellette Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Canada
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), Bethesda, MD
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 Information Biology and 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), Bethesda, MD
11:30 AM	Francis Collins Director, National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), 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

	Organizing Committee David Landsman David Lipman Alan Graeff Dennis Benson Jo McEntyre Ilene Mizrachi James Ostell Kent Smith David Wheeler