Appendix B
Committee Meeting Agendas
Committee on Biotechnology Capabilities for National Security Needs
These open and closed sessions were part of the committee’s information-gathering process. They are listed in chronological order. Presentations that were pre-recorded are noted.
MEETING 1
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
HYBRID
OPEN SESSION
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM ET: Sponsor Briefing
MEETING 2
JANUARY 20, 2022
VIRTUAL
OPEN SESSION
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM ET: Biological Means of Information Transfer and Applications of Stored Data
- Elliot Chaikof, Harvard Medical School (moderator)
- Yaniv Erlich, Eleven Therapeutics
- Pinar Zorlutuna, University of Notre Dame
- Mark Bathe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Yevgeniy (Eugene) Vorobeychik, Washington University in St. Louis
- Nicholas Evans, University of Massachusetts Lowell
MEETING 3
JANUARY 21, 2022
VIRTUAL
OPEN SESSION
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM ET: Molecular Communication and Computation and Biology’s Impact on Information Science
- Andrew Kilianski, IAVI (moderator)
- Andrew Eckford, York University
- Ángel Goñi-Moreno, Technical University of Madrid (UPM)
- Urbashi Mitra, University of Southern California
- Nicholas Evans, University of Massachusetts Lowell
MEETING 4
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
VIRTUAL
CLOSED SESSION
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET: Committee meeting to discuss the consensus report.
MEETING 5
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
IN PERSON
CLOSED SESSION
9:00 AM – 4:30 PM ET: Committee meeting to discuss the consensus report.