Sponsored by the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate
Faculty Forum on the
Energy Biosciences
Institute
8 March 2007, 4 – 6 p.m.
Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center
MODERATOR
Linda Schacht – Lecturer, Graduate School of Journalism
Linda Schacht is an Emmy-award winning television reporter with more than 20 years experience
in local television. She has won two Emmy awards and an American Bar Association national
award for her political coverage. She has been on the faculty since 1992 and continues to work
on special television and documentary projects.
PANELISTS (in order of presentation)
Beth Burnside - Vice Chancellor for Research; Professor, Molecular & Cell Biology
The EBI competition and application process
Beth Burnside is Vice Chancellor for Research and Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology. Vice Chancellor Burnside
is responsible for university/industry relations, research compliance, research communications and research support
for the Berkeley campus. She has been appointed a Chancellor Professor at Berkeley and a Fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science. She has also served on the Scientific Advisory Board and the National
Advisory Eye Council of the National Eye Institute of the NIH.
Jay Keasling
– Director, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory;
Professor, Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering
Jay Keasling is Professor of Chemical Engineering, Professor of Bioengineering, head of the Physical Biosciences
Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and director of the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research
Center (SynBERC). Director Keasling also is a member of the California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical
Research (QB3), a partnership between the State of California, industry, and the UC campuses at San Francisco,
Berkeley and Santa Cruz.
Ignacio Chapela – Associate Professor, Environmental Science, Policy, & Management
Ignacio H. Chapela is Associate Professor in Environmental Science, Policy and Management, and Scientific Director
of The Mycological Facility: Oaxaca in Mexico. A biologist dedicated to ecological research on fungi, his career has
spanned from a purely biochemical/ecological base in Mexico through research stages in academia and three years
of scientific research to an involvement in the debate on biodiversity loss, its economic and social consequences, and
the perspectives for future action.
David Vogel – Professor, Haas School of Business & Political Science; Affiliate Professor, Goldman
School of Public Policy
Corporate responsibility
David Vogel has been on the Berkeley faculty since 1973 and has received the Solomon P. Lee Distinguished
Professorship in Business Ethics. He is the author of six books on business political influence and the politics of
environmental regulation. He is currently writing a monograph on corporate social responsibility and a book
comparing risk management policies in the European Union and the United States.
S. Shankar Sastry – Director, CITRIS; Professor, Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering
Corporate partnerships
S. Shankar Sastry is currently the Director of CITRIS (Center for Information Technology in the Interest of Society).
He is the NEC Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and a Professor of
Bioengineering. He has served as Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (20012004). Professor Sastry’s research interests include Biosystems; Control, Intelligent Systems, and Robotics, as well
as Computer Security.
Robert Reich – Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy
Academic freedom
Robert B. Reich has served in three national administrations, most recently as Secretary of Labor under President Bill
Clinton. He has written 10 books, including The Work of Nations, The Future of Success and Locked in the Cabinet;
and most recently, Reason. Professor Reich is co-founder and national editor of The American Prospect magazine. In
2003, Professor Reich was awarded the prestigious Vaclav Havel Vision Foundation Prize, by the former Czech
president, for his pioneering work in economic and social thought. His commentaries can be heard weekly on public
radio’s “Marketplace.