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Animals and Bioengineering - Agenda

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All sessions will be located in Room 3041 of the Law Building. Luncheons will be held in the Law School Annex (Gross Chemistry Building)

Friday November 9, 2007

8:15 A.M. - 8:45 A.M.

  • Registration Table opens - 3rd floor Loggia, Law Building

9:00 A.M. - 9:15 A.M.

  • Welcoming Remarks - Dean David Levi, Duke University School of Law; Gilda I. Mariani, Chair of ABA/TIPS Animal Law Committee; Peter Bennett, Esq., Chair, ABA Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section

9:15 A.M. - 10:10 A.M.
Group #1 - A Little Legal History

  1. History of the Animal Welfare Act - Betty Goldentyer, DVM, Eastern Regional Director, Animal Care Program, United States Department of Agriculture
  2. History of Government Oversight of Genetically Modified Animals - Rachel G. Lattimore, Esq., partner, Arent, Fox LLP, Washington D.C.

10:10 A.M. - 10:20 A.M.

  • Break

10:20 A.M. - 11:40A.M.
Group #2 - Introduction to the Science of Animal Genetics

  1. Improving Animals Each Generation by Selecting from the Best Gene Sources - Paul M. VanRaden, Ph.D., Research Genetist (Animals), United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service
  2. The Science of Making Clones and Transgenic Animals - Robert Wall, Ph.D., Research Physiologist (Animals), United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural and Research Service

11:45 A.M. - 1:30 P.M.

  • Lunch with speaker (Sponsored by the North Carolina Association for Biomedical Research): Bioengineering Research and Health: The NIH Perspective - Norka Ruiz Bravo, Ph.D., National Institutes of Health, Deputy Director for Extramural Research. Introduced by Deborah Runkle, Senior Program Associate, American Association for the Advancement of Science

1:30 P.M. - 3:30 P.M.
Group #3 - Perspectives on Public Policy

  1. Patenting of Animals - Joyce Tischler, Esq., cofounder, Animal Legal Defense Fund
  2. Strengths and Weakness of the Animal Welfare Act - Cathy Liss, President, Animal Welfare Institute
  3. A Veterinarian's Perspective of Regulation of Animal Care - B. Taylor Bennett, DVM, Ph.D., Management Consultant - regulatory compliance and program management and Senior Scientific Advisor for the National Association for Biomedical Research (NABR)
  4. The Animal Biotechnology Industry Perspective of Regulation of Animals Derived through Biotechnology - Barb Glenn, Ph.D., Managing Director of Animal Biotechnology in the Food & Agriculture Section, Biotechnology Industry Organization
  5. Do State Anti-cruelty Laws Apply to Animals Used in Scientific Research? Professor William A. Reppy, Duke University School of Law

3:30 P.M. - 3:40 P.M.

  • Break

3:40 P.M.- 5:00 P.M.
Group #4 - What Is Happening Out In The Field

  1. Transgenesis for Human Health and BSE Resistance - Eddie Sullivan, Ph.D., Chief of Operations, HemaTech, LLC
  2. Enhancing Genetic Improvement - Irina Polejaeva, Ph.D., ViaGen, Inc.
  3. Transgenesis for Food Application - Joseph McGonigle, AquaBounty Technolgies, Waltham, MA

7:00 P.M.

  • Dinner for conference speakers and organizers sponsored by Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, at the Washington Duke Inn

Saturday November 10, 2007

8:15 A.M. - 8:45 A.M.

  • Registration Table opens - 3rd floor Loggia, Law Building

8:50 A.M. to 9:00 A.M.

  • Welcoming Remarks - Gilbert Whittemore, Esq., Chair ABA Section of Science and Technology Law

9:00 A.M. - 9:30 A.M.
Group #4 - What Is Happening Out In The Field (Cont'd)

4. The Nuts and Bolts of Genetic Engineering of Animals - Thomas M. Coffman, MD., Chief Division of Nephrology, Duke School of Medicine

9: 30 A.M.- 11:00 A.M.
Group #5 - Ethical Issues in the Use of Animals

  1. Ethics and the Genetic Engineering of Animals - Bernard Rollin - University Distinguished Professor, Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Professor of Animal Sciences, and University Bioethicist, Colorado State University
  2. The Ethics of Animal Biotechnology - Professor Margaret Riley - Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law

11:00 A.M. - 11:10 A.M.

  • Break

11:10 A.M. - 11:50 A.M.

  • Special Guest Speaker
  • Harvard College v. Canada Commissioner of Patents (the Harvard mouse case) - Justice Michel Bastarache, Supreme Court of Canada. Introduced by Nathaly Vermette, Chair of the ABA Tort Trial and Insurance Practice's Intellectual Property Committee

11:55 A.M. - 1:25 P.M.

  • Lunch with speaker (Sponsored by the Animal Legal Defense Fund): The Influence of Bioengineering And Alternatives to the use of Animals - Charles Hamner, D.V.M., Ph.D., chairman of the board, The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences, and former president, North Carolina Biotechnology Center. Introduced by Ramie O'Neill, chair of Duke Law School's Animal Law Society
     

1:30 P.M. - 3:00 P.M.
Group #6 - Future Prospects of Law and Regulation

  1. Legal control over the genetic modification of animals - Professor Steve Wise, former president of the Animal Legal Defense Fund
  2. Is more regulation needed? - Jeannie Perron, J.D., D.V.M., Covington & Burling LLP
  3. Developing Public Policy for Genetic Manipulation of Animal Genes - Professor David Favre, Michigan State University College of Law

3:00 P.M.

  • Conference ends

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November 9-10, 2007
Duke University School of Law
Durham, NC