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 (Learn more)	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

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