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CIEMAS Building Student at Microscope Mark Jelley FOCUS students Lisa Bukovnik - DNA sequencing facility Dan Mace, Terry Furey, and Bill Majoros Genome Focus class Microarray Chip E coli

What's Now in the IGSP

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Science & Society Journal Club

On Friday, May 9th 2008 at 12pm in 100 North, Bill English will be presenting on the topic of Devaluing Science. Please make sure you read the review of a book called The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics by Roger A. Pielke, Jr. (Cambridge, 2007). The other article, The New Politics of Technology, is optional.ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

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Cancer Genomics Meeting Cancelled

There will NOT be a Cancer Genomics Meeting on Monday, May 12th. The next Cancer Genomics Meeting is on Monday, May 19th 2008 at 1:00pm in CIEMAS, Rm 2240. The speaker will be Sarah Meadows from the Chute Lab. The topic is Human Radiation Exposure Predicted by Genome Profile Analysis. Please mark your calendars. FULL SCHEDULE

Epigenetics

Tuesday Seminar Series

The last Tuesday Seminar Series for the Spring Semester 2008 will be held on May 13th. Steven Henikoff from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center will give a talk on Histone Variant Dynamics and Epigenetics. The lecture will be held at 12:30pm in room 147 Nanaline Duke Building. Students interested in meeting Dr. Henikoff and attending the student lunch, should contact the lunch host Karen Hayden.FULL SCHEDULE

Shamil Sunyaev

Special Seminar

Please join us for a special seminar entitled Selective Constraints in Human Non-coding DNA by Prof. Shamil Sunyaev from Harvard Medical School this coming Wed. May 14th at 2:30pm in the French Family Science Center Building room 4233. Faculty, postdocs, or students interested in meeting with Prof. Sunyaev should contact Molly Megraw.