Second International Forum on Biosecurity

Budapest, Hungary

March/April 2008

Monday, March 31

Plenary (1) Introduction to the Forum

Roderick Flower, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry

Framing the Issue: Web of Prevention, Web of Opportunities and Opportunities with International Organizations

Robin Coupland, ICRC

Ottorino Cosivi, WHO

Alexandre Bartsev, OECD

Jason Chin, Cambridge University

Jörg Stelling, ETH Zurich

Jane Calvert, Edinburgh University

Plenary (3) Introduction of the Breakout Session

Leiv Sydnes, University of Bergen

David Franz, Midwest Research Institute

Angelo Azzi, Tufts University

Breakout Session 1

Tuesday, April 1

Plenary (4) Awareness About and Attitudes towards Biosecurity

Li Huang, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Ronald Atlas, University of Louisville

Brian Rappert, University of Exeter and Malcolm Malcolm Dando, University of Bradford

Breakout Session 2

Culture of responsibility	Research oversight	Science advising
Alastair Hay	Ruth Berkelman	Patrick Rubaihayo
Gerald Epstein	David Carr	Koos van der Bruggen

Plenary (5) The 2008 BWC Intersessional Meetings

Ambassador Georgi Avramchev, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Macedonia to the United Nations Office at Geneva; Chair of the 2008 Meetings of the Biological Weapons Convention

Wednesday, April 2

Plenary (6) Summary of Breakout Sessions

Plenary (7) Summary of the Meeting

Michael Clegg, University of California, Irvine