Genomes@4

Bi-weekly presentations emphasizing diverse perspectives on the impact of the Genome Revolution

Spring 2008 Schedule

1st and 3rd Thursdays
4:00 - 5:00 pm
Bryan Research Building, Rm 103
Followed by IGSP Social Hour (2nd Floor IGSP Lobby, CIEMAS Building)

Date Presenter Title
January 17th David Goldstein, Director (view slides)
Allen Buchanan (view slides)
Cognitive Genomics and the Ethics of Cognitive Enhancement
February 7th Erich Jarvis A Window into Molecular Systems for Vocal Learning
February 21st Misha Angrist Your Sequence is Showing: A Whirlwind Tour through the Land of Personal Genomics
March 6th Terrie Moffitt and Avshalom Caspi Gene-environment interactions in mental health
March 20th Fred Dietrich Massively Parallel Whole Genome Sequencing
April 3rd NO MEETING
SPECIAL EVENT
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NO MEETING
April 17th Christopher Holman
(UMKC School of Law)
Human Gene Patent Litigation in the U.S.: Past, Present and Future
May 1st Dr. Howard L. McLeod (UNC) Discovery and Application of DNA Markers for Toxicity and Efficacy

Previous Years

Fall 2007 Schedule

1st and 3rd Thursdays
4:00 - 5:00 pm
Bryan Research Building, Rm 103
Followed by IGSP Social Hour (2nd Floor IGSP Lobby, CIEMAS Building)

Date Presenter Title
September 6th Evan Charney, Depts of Public Policy Studies and Political Science Genes and Ideologies
September 20th Nina Sherwood, Dept. Biology Harvesting the Fruit (Flies) of the Genome Revolution Towards Understanding Nervous System Function and Dysfunction
October 4th Keith Whitfield, Dept. Psychological and Brain Sciences A Quantitative Genetic Application to the Study of African Americans
October 18th Dave and Jane Richardson
Dept. of Biochemistry
Bioinformatics in 3D: Comparing ribosomes and tuning up structural genomics
November 1st IGSP Special Seminar:  Dr. Ulrike Eggert, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School A Combined Chemical Genetic/RNAi Approach: New Tools to Study Cell Division
November 15th Piotr Marszalek, Dept. Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science Nanotechnology in DNA Research
December 6th Trudy Mackay, William Neal Reynolds Professor of Genetics, North Carolina State University Drosophila Quantitative Genomics

Spring 2007 Schedule

4:00pm - 5:00pm

Schiciano Auditorium B, CIEMAS Building
Or
103 Bryan Research Building

Followed by IGSP Social Hour, 2nd floor IGSP Lobby, CIEMAS Building

Date Title Speaker Site
1/18 Genome Science-based Enhancements of Human Beings: Some Ethical Issues Allen Buchanan
IGSP Scholar in Residence
CIEMAS
2/1 The Nonribosomal Code: Natural (& Unnatural) Products from the Biosphere's Microbial Drug Factories Bruce Donald
IGSP, Depts. Computer Science and Biochemistry
CIEMAS
2/15 Signatures for Drug Discovery Todd Golub - IGSP Distinguished Lecturer
Broad Institute
Bryan
3/1 The Promise of Genomic Medicine: Perspectives from the Inside and Outside Geoffrey Ginsburg
Director, IGSP Center for Genomic Medicine

Patricia Deverka IGSP James Wyngaarden Fellow
CIEMAS
3/15 Science Literacy in Durham and Kenya: Understanding the Origins of HIV Sherryl Broverman
Dept. of Biology
Bryan
4/5 Of Yeast, Birds, Mice and Men: Bayesian Machine Learning and Systems Biology Alex Hartemink
IGSP, Dept. of Computer Science
CIEMAS
4/19 Stem Cells: Advances in Research and Issues for Current Practice Tannishtha Reya
Depts. Pharmacology and Cancer Biology

Philip Rosoff
Depts. Pediatrics and Medicine
Bryan
5/3 Studying Gene-Environment Interactions in Human Diseases Marcy Speer
Interim Director, Center for Human Genetics

Silke Schmidt
Center for Human Genetics
Bryan
5/17 Large-scale Genomic Databases: Practical and Policy Considerations for Use Jamie Cuticchia
IGSP, Director Duke Bioinformatics Group

Laura Beskow Associate Director, Research Ethics, IGSP Center for Genome Ethics, Law & Policy
CIEMAS

Fall 2006 Schedule

Date Title Speaker
9/7 The Other Codes: What Does the Genome Do? Hunt Willard
Director, IGSP
9/21 US Health Research - Where Does the Money Come From? Why Did It Get So Big? Bob Cook-Deegan
Dir, IGSP Center for Genome Ethics, Law & Policy
10/5 Genomic Research in Neonatology


The Challenges of Communicating Genetic Risk Information
Mike Cotton
Dept. Pediatrics

Isaac Lipkus
Dept. Medical Psychiatry
10/19 Presentation for this date only will be held in the Reynolds Lecture Hall (room 0016) of the Divinity School  
11/2 Novel Intellectual Property Strategies for Addressing the Drug Discovery Problem Arti Rai
Duke Law School
11/16 Systems Biology at Duke Philip Benfey
Chair, Dept. of Biology
12/7 A Genomic Approach to Personalized Medicine in Lung Cancer Anil Potti
Dept. Medicine

All presentations will be held from 4:00pm - 5:00pm in the Bryan Research Building, Room 103

Each seminar will be followed by IGSP Social Hour, 2nd floor IGSP Lobby, CIEMAS Bldg


Spring 2006 Schedule

Bi-weekly presentations engaging diverse perspectives on the impact of the Genome Revolution

Date Presenter/Title
February 3rd Phil Febbo "Applying Genomic Medicine to Cancer Care"
February 17th Bob Cook-Deegan "Tracing the policy history of seminal genomic inventions: who made the tools you use? who got rich?"
March 3rd Amy Laura Hall - Duke Divinity "The 'Atomic Age' and the 'Genomic Revolution': Rhetorics of Hope"
March 17th Lingchong You - "Biology by design: reduction and synthesis of cellular networks"
March 31st Richard Konstance, MD - Cardiology "Understanding the Impact of the FDA Guidelines on Pharmacogenomics"
April 7th UPGG Special Seminar: Carol Grieder "Telomerase and the Consequences of Telomerase Dysfunction"
April 21st Pricilla Wald - English "Blood and Stories: How Genomics is Rewriting Race, Medicine and Human History"
May 5th Greg Wray - "Rewiring gene networks: Is evolution a tinkerer or an engineer?"
May 19th Geoff Ginsburg - "On the Road to Personalized Medicine: Translating Biomarkers into Clinical Medicine"
June 2nd Eric Toone - Chemical Biology: Small Molecule Approaches to Biological Discovery
June 16th Kelly Marcom - "Clinical application of germline cancer genomics"

Fall 2005

Bi-weekly presentations engaging diverse perspectives on the impact of the Genome Revolution

Date Presenter/Title
September 1st Hunt Willard: "Genome Sciences and Policy in Washington: Perspectives from the Secretary's Advisory Committee"
September 15th David Goldstein: "Should you take a genetic test before you take your medicine?"
September 29th UPGG Special Seminar: Dr. Judith Kimble
October 6th Joe Nevins, Tom Burke, Holly Dressman, Kevin Shianna: "Genome Technologies at Your Fingertips: IGSP Ctr for Applied Genomics & Technology"
October 20th Alex Rosenberg: "Does the genome really contain information and why should we care"
November 3rd UPGG Special Seminar: Dr. Joan Brugge
November 17th Pascal Goldschmidt, MD : "Genomics of Atherosclerosis"
December 1st James W. Vaupel, PhD : "Genetics and Genomics of Human Aging"
December 15th Wesley Cohen, PhD : "The effect of intellectual property on upstream academic research"
December 16th UPGG Special Seminar: Dr. Susan Lindquist