# Special Emphasis Panel in Bioengineering and Environmental Systems; Meeting
In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, as amended) the National Science Foundation announces the following meeting.
*Name: * Special Emphasis Panel in Bioengineering and Environmental Systems (1189); Workshop on Quantitative Systems Biology.
*Date and Time: * Sept. 13, 2000; 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Sept. 14, 2000; 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
*Place: * Room 110, NSF, 4201 Wilson Blvd, Arlington, VA (Room 580 on 9/14).
*Type of Meeting: * Open.
*Contact Person: * Michael Domach, Program Director, Division of Bioengineering and Environmental Systems, National Science Foundation, Suite 565, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22230; Telephone: (703) 292-8320. For easier building access, individuals planning to attend should contact Marcia Rawlings at 703-292-8320 or at [email protected] so that your name can be added to the building access list.
*Minutes: * May be obtained from the contact person listed above.
*Purpose of Meeting: * To identify goals, opportunities and specific objectives for a new NSF research funding initiative in quantitative systems biology.
*Agenda: * Discussion on issues, opportunities, and future directions for quantitative systems biology, particularly systems (engineering) approaches to and applications for predicting the phenotypic behavior of a living organism from the genomic information being generated for that organism and the well defined environmental conditions that cause the expression of that genome.
Dated: August 18, 2000.
Karen J. York,
Committee Management Officer.