The 2009 annual meeting of the American Institute of Biological Sciences will be held 18 and 19 May on the theme of "Sustainable Agriculture: Greening the Global Food Supply," at The Westin Gateway, Arlington, Virginia. The program chair is 2009 AIBS President May Berenbaum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As a special event, a reception and lecture will be held the evening of 18 May at the National Academy of Sciences, Keck Center, in Washington DC. The evening will also include an after-hours tour of the Koshland Science Museum.
The meeting brings together plenary speakers, panelists, and discussion groups from both the basic and applied life sciences to examine the topics of food sustainability, supply, and security. The two-day program is geared toward the science-policy interface for an audience of scientists, educators, students, representatives of nongovernmental organizations, members of Congress, and the media.
The meeting is taking place during the "Year of Science 2009," co-organized by AIBS and involving more than 400 organizations, which is aimed at communicating to the general public the nature and value of the scientific enterprise.
The rest of the meeting's program will be rounded out by events including a contributed poster session, AIBS awards, a teachers workshop organized by the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study and the National Association of Biology Teachers, and a workshop by the AIBS Public Policy Office based upon the AIBS publication, Communicating Science: A Primer for Working with the Media.
http://www.aibs.org/annual-meeting/annual_meeting_2009.html
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