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News from pgEd

• Read Ting Wu and Dana Waring's interview, " When Genetics Gets Personal" in the recent issue of the Harvard Gazette.
• Thank you to Think Gene and editors Josh Hill and Andrew Yates for featuring pgEd's lesson plans as part of their education and outreach mission. 
• pgEd was recently cited by Genome Technology Online's Daily Scan feature. 
• pgEd is proud to be an Educational Partner of "Genome: The Future is Now", a documentary series produced by Marilyn Ness of Necessary Films. The series will examine the personal impact of genome sequencing on a group of volunteers, alongside the broader questions of how genomics may alter society as a whole.
• Welcome Boston Globe readers! Drop us a line if you'd like to learn more about workshop possibilities in the New England area.
• Genome Technology Online and the PredicterER blog recently featured pgEd - Thank you very much!
• Read Dana Waring's recent interview with The Genetic Genealogist.
• Thank you to Genome Boy and Eye on DNA for mentioning our work!

Events and public talks:

Members of the Wu lab and some of our collaborators occasionaly give public talks as part of our effort to educate and engage the community about personal genetics and the associated ethical, legal, and social implications.

Upcoming events: 

Please check back soon for updated information on our 2009-2010 events.

Recent events:

Professor Ting Wu and Dana Waring participated in Harvard Medical School's Project Success series, which is offered by the Office for Diversity and Community Partnership, on July 31, 2009. They discussed social, ethical, and scientific issues in personal genetics as well careers in science related to personal genetics.  

Professor Jack Bateman and Dana Waring presented on the scientific and social issues in personal genetics as part of the seminar series for the University of Pittsburgh Department of Biological Sciences Summer 2009 HHMI Fellows on July 8-9, 2009.  

Dana Waring presented " Personal Genome Sequencing: What, why when, and what if?" at Brunswick High School, Brunswick ME, on May 18th, 2009. 

Ting Wu and Dana Waring, in collaboration with Professors Marcy MacDonald and George Church, taught a nanocourse called " Personal Genetics: Discussions about Technology, Inheritance, Medicine and Society"  at Harvard Medical School on April 10th and April 17th. 

Dr. Ting Wu joined Professors George Church and David Altshuler for a panel discussion on personal genetics as part of Harvard Medical School's   "Mini - Med School" seminar series on March 18, 2009.

Dana Waring presented at SYNAPSE, the Symposium for Young Neuroscientists and Professors of the Southeast on March 28th, 2009, on personal genomics and the ethical challenges ahead for medical professionals.

Dana Waring presented a workshop called " Personal Genome Sequencing: Teaching the ethical, social, and legal questions" at the DNA and Health Conference at Bridgewater State College on Thursday February 5, 2009.  The conference was part of Bridgewater's Center for the Advancement of Science Exploration (CASE)

Dana Waring spoke on November 12, 2008 as part of the Cornerstones of Science series at the Brunswick Public Library. The discussion was about the ethical and social issues in preimplantation genetic diagnosis.   

Jack Bateman presented at the Brunswick Public Library's Cornerstones of Science program, as part of their weekly discussion series of Philip Reilly's book, " The Strongest Boy in the World ". His focus was on ethics and gene therapy. 

Dana Waring presented a poster entitled " The Personal Genetics Education Project: Education and Public Engagement" at the " Personal Genomes" meeting at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory October 9-12, 2008.

Dana Waring modeled a "science cafe" about personal genomes as part of Nova ScienceNow's presentation " Can Science Be Social?" at the National Science Teacher Association's annual conference in Boston, MA.

Dana Waring presented a guest lecture to Dr. Chris Korey's Molecular Biology students at the College of Charleston on the ethical and social issues of personal genome sequencing and the role young scientists may play in this new technology.

Dana Waring presented at Synapse, the Symposium for Young Neuroscientists and Professors of the Southeast, on ethical issues related to neurological disease, personal sequencing, and preimplanation genetic diagnosis.