Festivus for the rest of us
A programming note: On Saturday afternoon I will be at the World Science Festival, which looks like more fun than people should be allowed to have. There I will infiltrate…pretend I belong on…annoy…er, appear on an otherwise esteemed panel, including Nobel laureate Paul Nurse, NHGRI Director Francis Collins (what the…?), computer scientist Latanya Sweeney, sociologist Nikolas Rose and geneticist Jim Evans. We will be talking about how personal genomics affects/will affect our lives; my genome and phenome (yawn) and, I expect, the PGP will be topics for discussion. Please stop by and say hello if you’re so inclined. (Thanks to the indefatigable Alison Snyder for making this panel happen.)
And even if genes and identity aren’t your thing, I encourage those in the NYC area to check out the rest of the Festival. Brian Greene, Tracy Day and company have done a masterful job in putting together an amazing program. It’s dork heaven. baby!
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."
May 29th, 2008 at 1:27 am
Funny,
I was kicked from that panel……but they Alison didn’t tell me. I had to email her 1 month prior to the event. Only then did she say OMG so sorry….. Please come to the opening cocktail party…..too bad I was just stuck on the Croos Bronx for 2 hours and missed Francis
Hope you enjoy the panel. I will not be attending
-Steve
www.thegenesherpa.blogspot.com