Schedule
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Thursday, July 29th
4:00 pm: Registration, Opening Discussions and Speaker Intros
5:00-7:00 pm: Short Talks
Mike Gretes, Neglected Disease R&D www.mindthehealthgap.org
Victoria Stodden, Two Ideas for Open Science
Scientific computation is emerging as absolutely central to the scientific endeavor, but is having profound effects on the scientific method. The prevalence of very relaxed practices is leading to a credibility crisis. Reproducible computational research, in which all details of computations—code and data—are made conveniently available to others, is a necessary response to this crisis. In this talk I argue reproducibility is the key issue underlying the imperative of open data and code in computational science. I describe approaches currently underway to facilitate reproducible computational research, and outline how these efforts dovetail with the Open Science Movement.
Peter Murray-Rust, Open Knowledge Foundation
Morgan Langille, BioTorrents
Jason Hoyt, Mendeley Research Networks
Martha Bagnell, The Third Reviewer
DJ Strouse & Casey Stark presenting CoLab
Jason Levitt, Kaltura
Doug Hershberger, Bioinformatics, the ultimate open source research platform Bay Area Bioinformatics forum (BayBIFX)
Josh Perfetto, OpenPCR, OpenPCR.org
James Peyer, Open Biotech Education, OTYP
Todd Kuiken, Responsible Science for DIY biologists, a new Woodrow Wilson Center Initiative
Sacha De’Angeli, ChemHacker
Bryan Bishop, Open Source Hardware
7:00-8:00 pm: Meet + Greet then adjourn to local bars
Friday, July 30th
8:00-9:30 am: Registration
9:30-10:00 am: Welcome Introduction
Theme I: Genomics, Gene Patents, and the Future of Biology
10:00-11:00 am: Retrospective on Human Genome Project, Prospective Look at Synthetic Biology
Alexander (Sasha) Wait Zaranek, Tim Hubbard, Drew Endy, Tom Goetz
Ten years after the completion of the Human Genome Project, we stand on the cusp of an era of personalized medicine and the much hyped, sometimes maligned possibility of a “synthetic biology.” George Church, a leading figure in the human genome project, has long advocated the virtues of an “Open Source approach” (see Polonator.org the first open source sequencing machine). The Biobricks Foundation, and the newly created BioFab, works to create an open standard for the field of synthetic biology. Can an “Open Source” model, in which essential biotechnologies are accessible as an “innovation commons,” provide a way forward? See Freeman Dyson for a vision of an era of radically “democratized,” decentralized biology.
BioBazaar: The Open Source Revolution and Biotechnology
11:00-12:00 pm: Gene Patents: Moving Beyond the Myriad Fallout
David Koepsell, author Who Owns You?
Luigi Palombi, author Gene Cartels
Rochelle Dreyfuss, member SAGCHS
Misha Angrist, author Here Is a Human Being: At the Dawn of Personal Genomics
12:00-12:45 pm: Lunch
12:45-1:00 pm: Introduction to Open Access and Latest Developments
Nick Shockey, Director, Right to Research Coalition
Theme 2: The Scientific Process
1:00-2:00 pm: State of Open Data/Open Access Journals Group Discussion
Michael Eisen, Co-Founder PLoS
Victoria Stodden, Yale Information Society
Jean Claude Bradley, UsefulChem Project
Cameron Neylon, Science in the Open
Carole Goble, Professor University of Manchester
Peter Murray-Rust, Open Knowledge Foundation
Morgan Langille, BioTorrents
Nick Shockey, Director, Right to Research Coalition
2:00-3:15 pm: Epistemology 2.0: Reputation Engines, Peer Review, and the Future of Online Science
2:00-2:14 Michael Nielsen, Open science author and blogger, former theoretical physicist
2:14-2:28 Michael Vassar, The Darwinian Method: Why Science Works and How Scholarship Helps
2:28-2:40 Jorge Hirsch, the H-index/Impact Factor
2:40-3:15 Panelists discuss the future prospects of peer review and reputation metrics in online science, (joined by participants from earlier session)
3:15-4:15 pm: Microfinance, Crowd-Funding for science (continuation of Peer Review discussion at beginning)
David Vitrant, Mark Friedgan, Fund Science
David Fries, president SciFlies
Jason Blue Smith, Zach Berke, EurekaFund
Theme 3: The rise of Distributed, Decentralized, Amateur/Citizen Science and Do It Yourself Biology
4:15-5:15 pm: A look at recent examples of citizen science in biology
Hugh Reinhoff, My Daughters DNA
Raymond McCauley, Founder Exponential Bioscience
Jason Bobe, Mac Cowell, co-founders DIY Bio
Tito Jankowski, Pearl Biotech LLC
Meredith Patterson, biohacker extraordinaire
5:15-6:30 pm: Safety and Security Concerns, Open Source BioDefense
Rob Carlson, Biodesic
Christine Peterson, Foresight Institute/Open Source Sensing
J Christopher Anderson, UC Berkeley professor of synthetic biology
Special Agent Edward You, FBI
Len Sassaman, Researcher Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
6:30-8:00 pm: Dinner
8:00-10:00 pm: Discussion at Local Bars
Saturday, July 31th
Theme 4: The Open Innovation Paradigm
9:30-10:30 am: Alternative Funding Mechanisms for Science, R&D
Aiden Hollis, Health Impact Fund/Incentives for Global Health
Jamie Love, Knowledge Ecology International
10:45-12:00 pm: Cure Entrepreneurs
Scott Johnson, Myelin Repair Foundation
Craig Benson, Beyond Batten Foundation
Beth Anne Baber, The Nicholas Conor Institute
12:00-12:45 pm: Lunch
12:45-2:00 pm: Open Source Drug Discovery
Jonathan Izant, Sage Bionetworks
Barry A. Bunin, CEO Collaborative Drug Discovery
Andrew Hessel, Pink Army, pinkarmy.org
Theme 5: Intellectual Property Management to Facilitate Collaborative Innovation
2:00-3:20 pm: Patent Pools
Alan Bennett, executive director, PIPRA
Rebecca Goulding, ISIS Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
Keith Bergelt, Open Invention Network
Theme 6: The Role of Universities
3:20-4:45 pm: The role of the University in the knowledge economy: Agonies of Academia and Tribulations of Technology Transfer.
Ethan Guillen, Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, Talk title: Saving lives through university patent policy
Carol Mimura, Office of Intellectual Property & Industry Research Alliances, University of California, Berkeley” Talk Title: Humanitarian rights clauses in contracts
Lisa Green, Creative Commons
Rebecca Goulding, ISIS Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, Talk Title: Alternative licensing solutions for Global Access
4:45-5:00 pm: José Cordeiro, The Future of Education Millennium Project
Closing Commentary on Personal Genomics
David Ewing Duncan, author, Experimental Man
