Date:
Friday, October 2, 2015, 9:30am to 4:30pm
A Science Symposium of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
This one-day science symposium will focus on the explosion of knowledge about past and present DNA and will include discussions about possible directions and applications for future research. The event will include experts in ancient DNA, de-extinction, human origins, population genetics, forensic science, ethics, business, future synthetic life, and the personal genome.
Register online and view the full schedule: http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2015-past-present-future-dna-symposium.
Speakers:
- Danielle Allen, director, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, and professor, Department of Government and Graduate School of Education, Harvard University
- Arthur Caplan, Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor of Bioethics, and director, Division of Medical Ethics, Department of Population Health, NYU Langone Medical Center
- George Church, Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
- Jacob Corn, scientific director, Innovative Genomics Initiative; assistant adjunct professor of biochemistry, biophysics, and structural biology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
- Greg Hampikian, professor, Department of Biological Sciences and Department of Criminal Justice, and director, Idaho Innocence Project, Boise State University
- John Hawks, Vilas-Borghesi Distinguished Achievement Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Alison Murdoch, professor of reproductive medicine and head of department, Institute of Genetic Medicine, International Fertility Centre for Life, Newcastle University (United Kingdom)
- Janet Rich-Edwards, codirector of the science program, Radcliffe Institute; associate professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School; associate professor, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- Floyd Romesberg, professor, Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute
- Christine Seidman, Thomas W. Smith Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Beth Shapiro, associate professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Ronald S. Sullivan Jr., clinical professor of law and director, Criminal Justice Institute, Harvard Law School
- Spencer Wells, director, Genographic Project, and explorer-in-residence, National Geographic
This event is free and open to the public.