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Genetics and Social Justice: Professional Development Workshop, Boston, MA

Harvard Medical School 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA, United States

Join us! This one-day interdisciplinary workshop will explore issues of social justice and the ethical, legal and social implications of genetics. Attendees will learn cutting-edge, engaging content and participate in activities that model classroom lessons for students. Participants will receive free pgEd curriculum and join a community of educators who value thought-provoking content and activities. The workshop […]

Association of Health Care Journalists conference

Rosen Centre Hotel Orlando, FL, United States

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.

Science by the Pint, Cambridge Science Festival

Aeronaut Brewing Co. 14 Tyler St., Somerville, MA, United States

pgEd's Johnny Kung has been invited to speak at "A Panel Discussion on Genetic Engineering," an event being organized by Harvard Medical School's Science In The News (SITN) as part of the Cambridge Science Festival. Other panelists will include bioethicist George Annas and scientists George Church and Wilson Wong.

Visit to South Dakota

Sioux Falls, SD, United States

pgEd will be traveling to Sioux Falls, South Dakota to visit Elizabeth McMillan and the Sanford Program for the Midwest Initiative in Science Exploration (PROMISE). Liz is a partner on our SEPA grant and is working with us to organize a Summer Institute for teachers in Sioux Falls in 2018. Highlights will include a community […]

AtlanticLIVE

New York, NY, United States

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.”

“Little Narwhal” film staging

Harvard Medical School 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA, United States

Dr. Carylanna Taylor and Mr. Jacob Okada will be spending these days with the Wu laboratory to stage the filming of a fictional movie that incorporates the laboratory’s work on ultraconserved elements. The storyline also addresses complex issues of privacy, human subjects research, and somatic and germline editing.

Future of Medicine conference

Denver Art Museum Denver, CO, United States

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 […]

Precision Medicine and Personal Genetics: Promoting Conversations

Harvard Medical School 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA, United States

pgEd is partnering with the Minority Coalition for Precision Medicine to hold an event for the faith-based community that focuses on precision medicine and the potential for genetics to advance our understanding of health and disease. The goal of this event will be to share information and generate discussion. As a group leader in Precision Medicine, the […]

SciEd conference

Grand Hyatt at Metro Center Washington, D.C. , United States

Marnie will be traveling to Washington, D.C. for the Annual Conference for NIH Science Education Projects. She will be meeting with science educators and presenting an update on pgEd's 5-year ARC curriculum development and professional development project, supported by the SEPA program.

2017 ELSI Congress

The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine Farmington, CT, United States

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 […]