DBIO hasn't made any firm decisions yet, but here are a few topics that have come up in our discussions that haven't been mentioned in other posts.
Mary Ellen Bates contacted us about doing a program; her suggested topics included search tips, art of negotiation, beating Google, or alternative search engines.
Tony Stankus is interested in doing a possibly 2 hour program on biological journals aimed at new librarians, including a segment on Open Access.
Two other DBIO members would like to see a program on recent legislature dealing with open access and open data.
Other ideas, not thought out in any detail, include:
Get a Wikipedia editor to come
Take lead in getting an environmentalist for the spotlight speaker-Bjorn Lomborg (Skeptical Environmentalist), David Suzuki (environmentalist/geneticist from Vancouver), Patrick More (Greenpeace)
Mount St. Helens
Environmental toxicology/endocrine disruptors
Fish farming
The tension between rare species protection and censorship in reporting locations
Get a speaker from Seattle's Allen Institute for Brain Science
We would probably be interested in taking the lead with something with bioinformatics.
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I don't know how significant this Seattle Climate Action Plan is, but you can see what they are trying to do, here: http://www.seattle.gov/climate/
I'd be interested in seeing more environmental topics included.
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