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8:45	Welcoming remarks and overview of the symposium	Cathy Wu, University of Delaware
9:00	Microbiology in the 21st Century	Joan Bennett, Rutgers University
9:40	Digital science perspective - From Brains to Microbes [ PDF ]	Mark Ellisman, UC, San Diego, CA
10:10	Coffee Break
10:40	Industrial perspective: Development of an MTA harmonious with a Microbial Research Commons	Stephen McCormack, Exela, Inc., Claremont, CA
11:10	Developing country perspectiv: Microbial Research Commons Including Viruses	Ashok Kolaskar, University of Pune, India
11:40	Panel discussion of Session 1 speakers with other Symposium participants regarding the commonalities and potential conflicts among different groups/sectors
12:15	Lunch at the Academy

13:15	Designing a semicommons for materials in microbiology	Jerome Reichman, Duke University Law School
13:45	Comments from different perspectives and panel discussion Federal Government Culture Collection - The Agriculture Research Service Culture Collection (NRRL): Germplasm Accessions and Research Programs Cletus P. Kurtzman, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, USDA   Not-for-profit Culture Collection - ATCC: A Model for Biological Materials Resource Management Frank Simione, American Type Culture Collection   Legal - Contracting to Preserve Open Science: Lessons for a Microbial Research Commons Peter Lee, UC Davis School of Law   Economic - The Impact of Open Access Institutions on Life Sciences Research: Lessons from BRCs and Beyond Scott Stern, Northwestern University
15:30	Break

16:00	Designing the digital commons in microbiology - Moving from Restrictive Dissemination of Publicly-Funded Knowledge to Open Knowledge Environments: A Case Study in Microbiology	Paul Uhlir, National Research Council
16:30	Comments from different perspectives and panel discussion Web applications - The Web-Enabled Research Commons: Applications, Goals, and Trends Thinh Nguyen, Creative Commons and Science Commons   Legal - Comments on Designing the Microbial Research Commons: Digital Knowledge Resources Katherine Strandburg, New York University Law School   Federal information policy - Toward a biomedical research commons: A view from NLM-NIH Jerry Sheehan, National Library of Medicine, NIH   Academic publications Frederick Rainey, Louisiana State University   Web information services - StrainInfo.net: Reducing Microbial Data Entropy Peter Dawyndt, Ghent University, Belgium
18:30	Dinner for the speakers in the Members' Room

8:30	The Materials Semicommons in Microbial Energy and Environmental Research and Applications Chair: Stephen McCormack, Excela, Inc. Research funder- The Department of Energy: Genome Sciences Daniel Drell, Department of Energy   Researcher - Large Scale Microbial Ecology Cyberinfrastructure (CAMERA) Paul Gilna, UC San Diego   International cooperation - Proposal for a microbial semi-commons: Perspectives from the International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups Flora Katz, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health   Intergovernmental organization - The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources Shakeel Bhatti, Food and Agriculture Organization   Institutional design - Microbial Commons: Governing Complex Knowledge Assets Minna Allarakhia, University of Waterloo, Canada [ Background Paper (PDF) ]
10:15	Coffee Break
10:45	The Digital Commons in Microbial Energy and Environmental Research and Applications Chair: Micah Krichevsky, Bionomics International Digital research - Microbial Genomics Nikos Kyrpides, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab   Digital user - Accessing Microbiological Data: A User's Perspective Mark Segal, Environmental Protection Agency   Academic journals - The Microbial Commons: Journals and Professional Societies Samuel Kaplan, UT Houston Medical School, and former Chair of the American Society for Microbiology's Publications Board   Economic and institutional - Mitigating Anti-commons Constraints on Global Scientific Research: A "bottom up" approach to instutitional reforms Paul David, Stanford University
12:30	Lunch at the Academy

13:30	Microbial Commons: Overview of the Governance Considerations - A Framework for Discussion	Tom Dedeurwaerdere, UC Louvain, Belgium
14:00	Comments from different perspectives and panel discussion Institutional design and Governance in Microbial Research Commons Charlotte Hess, Syracuse University   U.S. foreign policy - International Developments: A Context for the Creation of a Microbiology Commonsy Anita Eisenstadt, Department of State   International food and agriculture - Options for governing the microbial commons informed by the need to bridge the 1993 CBD divide Michael Halewood, Bioversity International, Italy    Access and Benefit Sharing under the CBD and access to materials for research Stefan Jungcurt, International Institute for Sustainable Development, Canada
15:45	Concluding remarks by the Symposium Chair	Cathy Wu, University of Delaware
16:00	End of meeting