"Questions of Conscience" is the culmination of a 9th grade bioethics research project of Casco Bay High School students. Dana will attend as an expert panelist to have conversations on topics such as CRISPR, privacy, epigenetics, and genetic discrimination.
The freshman students in the Brockton High School Biotech program have been designing biological systems to treat or cure a human disease and thinking deeply about the ethics of genetic engineering. Robin will be attending the poster session where the students will present their capstone projects to judge, discuss and celebrate their work.
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 […]
At the end of October, Nadine will travel to the headquarters of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany. There she will meet with Lucia von Bredow, EMBL's Science & Society Programme Manager, as well as several of her colleagues to discuss collaboration efforts between pgEd and EMBL. Furthermore, Nadine will attend the […]
In partnership with WETA and the Emory Center for Ethics, pgEd will be participating in a panel discussion in association with a screening of the new Ken Burns documentary,The Gene: An Intimate History at the Atlanta Science Festival on the evening of Tuesday, March 10.
pgEd has been invited to the 2020 meeting of the North Carolina Community College Association of Biology Instructors, to present a workshop on our educational materials.
Marnie will be speaking virtually with students at Tufts University as part of a freshman seminar called Science and the Human Experience. This course is taught by Jonathan Garlick, who directs a science education and civic engagement initiative known as Civic Science at Tufts University.
The upcoming PBS documentary "The Gene: An Intimate History" takes an in-depth look at the history of genetics, including pivotal discoveries, current applications, and the social implications of the use and misuse of genetic science. pgEd has partnered with WETA, who is producing the film, to create educational resources for the PBS Learning Media site. […]
Marnie will be in Washington, D.C. to share the latest from pgEd’s Building Awareness, Respect, and Confidence through Genetics (ARC) project with other science educators who receive funding from the Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) program of the National Institutes of Health.
April 7 Update: The Allied Genetics Conference is moving sessions online, and we are pleased to announce that this session has been rescheduled for May 26th. Stay tuned for details. Marnie has been invited to speak about the history of the American eugenics movement in a session at The Allied Genetics Conference (TAGC), a conference […]