pgEd is looking forward to heading to Vancouver this fall for the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics. Marnie will be moderating an invited session entitled “Education in Action: Meeting the Challenges of 21st Century Genetics” on Wednesday, October 19 from 11am-1pm. Ting will be one of the speakers featured in this session to highlight pgEd's programs and the […]
Marnie and Ting will be speaking with top executives from MilliporeSigma, sharing pgEd’s experiences and strategies for engaging the public.
Ting will be a guest of the Hastings Center at the Advisory Council Meeting for their Program on Gene Editing. Her presentations will describe the cutting edge of genetic technologies as well as the various strategies that pgEd uses to engage the general public in conversation about genetics.
pgEd director Ting Wu will be speaking at the upcoming Cambridge Roundtable on Science, Art and Religion on Dec 1. Bringing together academics, clergy and other professionals over a weekly dinner, the goal of the Roundtable is to foster dialogue that explores the intersection of academic and Christian thought on issues related to science and […]
Marnie will be speaking on a multi-disciplinary panel discussion on CRISPR with Jamie Metzl (Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council), Roberto Barbero (Former Assistant Director on Biological Innovation, White House Office of Science & Technology Policy), and Matthew Liao (Director, Center for Bioethics, New York University). The discussion will consider potential applications of CRISPR, policy questions, long-term societal implications, and […]
Dana has been invited to give a talk on genome editing as part of the Smithsonian traveling exhibition "Exploring Human Origins: What Does It Mean To Be Human?" at the Bangor Public Library in Bangor, Maine.
pgEd Director, Ting Wu, will be speaking on a panel on gene editing at the Association of Health Care Journalists conference in Orlando, Florida. This panel, sponsored by The Hastings Center, also features Josephine Johnston of The Hastings Center and will be moderated by Dina Fine Maron of Scientific American.
pgEd director, Ting Wu, will join Dr. Paul Appelbaum and Dr. Arthur Caplan for a panel discussion before a live television audience as part of the program on Sequencing the Genome: Examining modern medicine. Moderated by Dr. James Hamblin of the Atlantic, the panel will address the “Opportunities and Challenges Ahead.”
pgEd's Ting Wu (Director) and Marnie Gelbart (Director of Programs) have been invited to Denver, Colorado to infuse pgEd's expertise and experiences engaging communities into this transdisciplinary conference, organized by James Corbett and his team at Centura Health, on the cutting edge of healthcare. Ting will be speaking together with pgEd Advisor and Harvard Medical School Professor, George […]
pgEd's Dana Waring is organizing an invited workshop for the 4th ELSI Congress on “Genomics and Society: Expanding the ELSI Universe.” According to the ELSI Congress website, this will be "the latest in a series of major conferences for researchers and others interested in the ethical, legal and social implications (ELSI) of genomic research." The title of Dana's […]
