January 2016 Meeting

• New Attendee Orientation
• Communications Committee Meeting

Welcome, News & Updates

Plenary - Federal Agency Updates

• NIH Update
• NSF Update
• ONR Update
• AFOSR Update
• GUIRR Update
• NIFA Update
• OMB Update
• Grants.gov Update

Plenary - Optimizing the Nation's Investment in Academic Research: A New Regulatory Framework for the 21st Century: D. Robinson, J. Haywood and Moderator:  D. Seligman 

To download or purchase Optimizing the Nation's Investment in Academic Research

Lunch Meetings

• Faculty Lunch Forum - Overview and Discussion of the NPRM and its Implications, Jerry Menikoff, Director, Office for Human Research Protections
• Subrecipient Monitoring Lunch Forum 
  • Northeastern University Subrecipient Monitoring , Dan Gilbert
  • Subrecipient Best Practices , Sarah White 

Committee and Task Force - Concurrent Session 1

• Compliance Committee & Working Groups
  • IACUC: Impact of DEA Regulation of Controlled Substances on Animal Models Research  Nancy Ator, PhD, Johns Hopkins University 
  • IRB, The Consent Toolbox, J. McCutcheon and A. Hardy 
  • Lab Safety
    • A Guide to Implementing a Safety Culture in our Universities (Jan 2016), Alice Young and Robert Nobles
    • Promoting a Culture of Safety in Laboratory Sciences (Sept 2015), Alice Young and Robert Nobles 
    • APLU Toolkit
  • COI, C. Schmidt and D. Dean 
• eRA & Open Government  K. Lee, R. Maziar, and M. Peckham

Committee and Task Force - Concurrent Session 2

• Faculty w/ Working Groups
  • Research Pipeline, Michele Masucci
  • Emerging Research Institutions, J. Underwood
  • FDP Representative Outreach & Support, L. McCabe 
  • Faculty Workload Survey  S. Schneider, S. Bible, and J. Luther
• Subawards J. Barron, A. Hamaker, and A. Humphrey 
• eRA - Grants.gov Workspace - Ed Calimag/Grants.gov, FastLane/Research.gov Update; FY2016 Preview - Bill Daus, NSF 

Committee and Task Force - Concurrent Session 3

• Expanded Clearinghouse , L. Arias, J. Barron and Pamela Webb 
• Next Steps in Addressing Administrative Burden
• eRA - DATA Act Working Session
  • Introductory Slides: FDP JDAWG Panel Debrief
  • Revisited - FDP JDAWG Panel Intro 

Committee and Task Force - Concurrent Session 4

• Membership Standing Committee
• Faculty/Communications/eRA Outreach

Committee and Task Force - Concurrent Session 5

• Faculty Committee
• Administrative Costs Working Group, S. Bible, J. Luther, J. Ginhart, K. Moreland, T. Reuter and N. Martinez-Wayman
• eRA Priorities Working Group

Plenary

• Speaker: Dr. Rush Holt, CEO, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)