A boy and his dog
I’m at GME 2007, taking it all in and even comprehending some of it. The best moment so far came during the Q&A after Venter sequencing maven Sam Levy finished his remarkable talk on the Craigome:
Q: Several years ago we studied the dog genome and found a variety of SNPs and indels. Have you thought about comparing Craig’s genome to his dog’s genome?
Sam Levy (with impeccable comic timing): Well, when we saw that half of his indels were also found in the chimp we stopped right there.
I work as an Assistant Professor in the Duke University Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy (although this site and its content are my own).
In 2007 I became the fourth subject in Harvard geneticist George Church's Personal Genome Project. As the PGP moves forward, I am chronicling the dawn of personal genomics, that is, people obtaining their genomic information for whatever reason(s) and figuring out what to do with it. I am interested in the relevant technologies and especially the attendant privacy and other ethical/legal/social issues.
This blog may also discuss some of my non-genome interests or, to paraphrase Dwight Yoakam, "Guitars, Cadillacs, hillbilly music, etc etc."
The header image comes from the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange's multimedia performance piece, "Ferocious Beauty: Genome."