pgEd has a session and a booth at the NABT Annual Conference in San Diego, CA on Nov 8-11. Our session on “Genome Engineering and Ethical Issues - Tackling the scientific and ethical questions in the high school classroom” is scheduled for Friday Nov 9th (2-3:15pm) in the Executive Conference 1 of the Sheraton San […]
Marnie will be a panelist at this event on Precision Medicine, part of the Equity and Social Justice series organized by the Harvard Medical School Office for Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership. The goal of the event is to foster a dialogue on health equity, health disparities, and health policy issues related to involving diverse […]
The pgEd team will be leading a session at the "Social Issues in Biology" course at Harvard University titled "Engaging Diverse Publics on Issues in Genetics." This is a discussion-based course focusing on controversial issues in biology and the social responsibility of scientists, and students in this class are drawn from PhD programs across biology-related […]
The Sinai and Synapsis Fellowship is a group of interfaith fellows that meet several times over two years, with each meeting dedicated to a specific topic. This meeting is focused around the question "Is science letting us play God?". Nadine has been invited as a speaker to discuss new genetic technologies and the ethical questions […]
David Potter and Ed Furshpan Native American Education Program is a three week summer program for about 20 high school students of the Native community. During this time students come to Harvard Medical School to learn about neurobiology and explore the science of substance abuse and addiction. This year, pgEd has been invited to talk […]
Veritas Institute is a program that helps undergraduate students write about science, technology, philosophy, and religion for public audiences. As part of this program, Nadine will join pastor Nathan Barczi in a session titled "Genetics, Personhood, and Religious Communities" - to talk about how to engage scientific and faith communities, and how to create bridges […]
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 Nadine gave an overview of what pgEd is and an introduction to our lessons to a workshop of teachers learning to use the new LabXchange platform under development. These teachers were challenged to think of ways pgEd topics could be adapted for or supplemented by the LabXchange platform.
Marnie and Nadine met with the 7 Project Success students in the class of 2019 to talk about the potential benefits as well as ethical implications of genome editing and CRISPR. Project Success is a program, run by the Office for Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership at HMS, for underrepresented high school students to participate […]