Nadine is invited as a guest speaker to a meeting of the American Scientific Affiliation (ASA) chapter in Washington DC. She will lead a dialogue on genome editing; covering the technological advances, the potential for improving human health, as well as ethical perspectives.
In the final week of June, Nadine will join the IRAS 2019 summer conference "The CRISPR Apple on the Tree of Knowledge: Bioengineering, Gene Editing, and the Human Future" as an invited speaker. The dialogue will focus on the genome editing technique CRISPR from the underlying science, to the possible impact on our society, to […]
Robin and Marnie will be traveling to Lincoln, NE to have a conversation with faith leaders from various religions about the ways new genetic technologies are impacting society and members of the faith communities they serve. We hope to encourage dialogue about genetics within faith communities.
pgEd will be in Cleveland at the start of October to attend a scientific meeting as well as visit several schools and communities in the area to start dialogues about personal genetics.
On October 22nd, Robin and Mare Parker-O'Toole, from the Newton Free Library, will be co-presenting a table talk at the 2019 New England Library Association Annual Conference titled "Volumes Written in Four Letters: Talking with library patrons about personal genetics".
HRYN (high risk youth network) hosts monthly meetings for various organizations to meet collectively, learn about each others work and discuss opportunities for collaboration that will benefit the youth of Boston and Greater Boston areas.
HRYN (high risk youth network) hosts monthly meetings for various organizations to meet collectively, learn about each others work and discuss opportunities for collaboration that will benefit the youth of Boston and Greater Boston areas.
pgEd has been invited to a community conversation around precision medicine and men's health organized by Michael Friend, founder of the Health Ministries Network (HMN) and co-founder of the Minority Coalition for Precision Medicine (MCPM). Nadine will travel to Baltimore to talk with attendees about how genetic testing might enter our daily lives.
pgEd Director, Ting Wu, will be a panelist for Detroit Public TV's virtual screening of the Ken Burns' documentary, "The Gene: An Intimate History". Other panelists will be Dr. Susan Baserga, Dr. George Church, Dr. Howard Markel, Dr. Stanley Perlman, and filmmaker Chris Durrance. For more on this two-part documentary, which premieres on April 7 […]
pgEd has been invited for a dialogue with LEAH project students about the science and ethics of genome editing and the environment.