From Double Helix to Human Sequence - and Beyond

From Double Helix to Human Sequence - and Beyond

Natcher Auditorium
National Institutes of Health

April 14-15, 2003

Agenda

• Monday, April 14, 2003
• Tuesday, April 15, 2003

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Video Playlist: Deciphering Nature's Alphabet
A compilation of the 10-minute films that were produced by State of the Art, Inc. (SOTA) for NHGRI and premiered at the Scientific Symposium in 2003.

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Monday, April 14, 2003

First Session: DNA at 50 years 8:30 a.m. Welcome Elias Zerhouni National Institutes of Health 8:40 a.m. Opening Remarks Francis Collins National Human Genome Research Institute Aristides Patrinos Office of Biological and Environmental Research Department of Energy 8:50 a.m. Reflections on the 50th Anniversary James Watson Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Sir Francis Crick (recorded) Salk Institute for Biological Studies   Session Chair: Herb Boyer, Universty of California at San Francisco 9:15 a.m.  Deciphering Nature's Alphabet: How Does DNA Work?  A Conversation 9:25 a.m. Deciphering the Genetic Code Marshall Nirenberg National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, NIH 9:45 a.m. Manipulating and Cloning the Double Helix Stanley Cohen Stanford University 10:05 a.m. Break   Session Chair: Edward Rubin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Joint Genome Institute, DOE 10:30 a.m.  Deciphering Nature's Alphabet: Manipulating DNA A Conversation 10:40 a.m. Decoding the Information in DNA Phillip Sharp Massachusetts Institute of Technology 11:00 a.m.  Deciphering Nature's Alphabet: Developing Genetic Tools A Conversation 11:10 a.m. Ideological Consequences of the Human Genome Project Horace Freeland Judson The George Washington University 11:30 a.m. Lunch   Second Session: The Human Genome Project Session Chair: James Wyngaarden, Duke University 12:30 p.m.  Deciphering Nature's Alphabet: Imagining the Genome A Conversation 12:40 p.m. History of the Project: Beginnings Charles DeLisi Boston University 1987 - 1990 Bruce Alberts National Academy of Sciences Getting the Job Done Maynard Olson University of Washington Looking Beyond the Lab: The Ethical, Legal and Social Implications Program Eric Juengst Case Western Reserve University 1:40 p.m. Beyond the Human Genome Eric Lander Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research MIT 2:05 p.m. Break   Session Chair: Richard Gibbs, Baylor College of Medicine 2:25 p.m. Introduction to the Watson Lecture Kay Jamison Johns Hopkins University James Watson Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 2:30 p.m. Watson Lecture: Biology in the Era of Complete Genomes Shirley Tilghman Princeton University 3:00 p.m.  Deciphering Nature's Alphabet: The Impact of the Human Genome Project A Conversationhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y0gAU9Zfzo 3:10 p.m. HGP: Beyond the Human Sequence The Mouse Genome: A Reflection on the Human Genome Robert Waterston University of Washington New Frontiers in Comparative Genomics Eric Green National Human Genome Research Institute NIH The Genome's Life Stories Patrick Brown Stanford University Computational Genomics: Sequence, Function and Evolution David Haussler University of California, Santa Cruz Human Sequence Variation David Bentley The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute 4:30 p.m. The Road Ahead Aristides Patrinos Office of Biological and Environmental Research Department of Energy 4:40 p.m. A Vision for Genomics Research Francis Collins National Human Genome Research Institute NIH 5:00 p.m. Adjourn

 

Tuesday, April 15, 2003

Third Session: Implications of Genomics for Human Disease Session Chair: Caroline A. Kovac, IBM Life Sciences 8:30 a.m. From Genome to Successful Treatment in Leukemia Janet Rowley University of Chicago Genetic and Genomic Insights into Cardiovascular Disease Richard Lifton Yale University School of Medicine Paradigms for the Genetic Component of Diabetes Nancy Cox University of Chicago Gene Identification for Infectious Disease Resistence: The First 50 Years Adrian Hill The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics Genetics of Asthma: Role of Nonlinear Gene-Environment Interactions Fernando Martinez University of Arizona 9:45 a.m. Questions and Discussion 10:10 a.m. Break   Fourth Session: Implications of Genomics for Human Disease Session Chair: Michael Gottesman, National Institutes of Health 10:30 a.m. Genetics of Speech, Language and Reading Disorders Anthony Monaco The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics Hereditary Hearing Disorders in the Genomics Era Thomas Friedman National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders NIH Impact of the Human Genome Project on Hereditary Blindness, Simple and Complex Val Sheffield University of Iowa Genetic Analysis Reveals Unexpected Connections Between Neurodegenerative Diseases John Hardy National Institute on Aging NIH Genomic Views of Psychiatric Illness Aravinda Chakravarti Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 11:45 a.m. Questions and Discussion 12:10 p.m. Lunch   Fifth Session: Implications of Genomics for Healthcare Session Chair: Raynard Kington, National Institutes of Health 1:30 p.m. Genomic Health Care Wylie Burke University of Washington Genes, Genomes and Drugs Peter Goodfellow GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals 2:20 p.m. Questions and Discussion 2:40 p.m. Break   Sixth Session: Implications of Genomics for Society Session Chair: Ellen Wright Clayton, Vanderbilt University 3:00 p.m. Race, Science and Society Harold Freeman Columbia University and Harlem Hospital Center Intellectual Property: A Boon or a Barrier to Genomics? Maria Freire The Global Alliance for Tuberculosis Drug Development The Genetic Revolution and its Impact in the Workplace Paul Miller U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Forensic DNA Testing and Human Identification Robert Shaler Office of the Chief Medical Examiner New York City 4:00 p.m. Questions and Discussion 4:30 p.m. Genomics and Global Health Sir David Weatherall University of Oxford 5:00 p.m. Adjourn

 

Last Reviewed: February 4, 2012