1:30 – 4:30 p.m.
US Geological Survey, Biological Informatics
Office
12201 Sunrise Valley Drive ,
Room 4A322 (Fourth Floor)
Reston , VA 20192
Welcome and Introductions Cotter/Spengler
Review Agenda Spengler/Cotter
Briefings
Minutes and Action Items Review Carroll
Other/New Business All
Next Meeting Spengler/Cotter
Note 1. The International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups (ICBG) Program is a unique effort that addresses the interdependent issues of drug discovery, biodiversity conservation, and sustainable economic growth. Efforts to examine the medicinal potential of the earth’s plants, animals, and microorganisms are urgently needed, since enduring habitat destruction and the resulting diminishment of biodiversity will make it increasingly difficult to do so in the future. Forty to fifty percent of currently used drugs have an origin in natural products.