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History of Molecular Biology and Genomics Lecture Series

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The NHGRI History of Molecular Biology and Genomics Lecture Series emerged out of the Capturing the History of Genomics workshop with the explicit purpose of bringing in talented and well-known historians, sociologists and philosophers. The goal of the lecture series is to increase the understanding of genomics in the scholarly community and to present contemporary research of immediate interest to NHGRI staff.

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Agenda

  • Tuesday, July 2, 2019
  • Philosophical Explanation in Genomics and the 20th Century Life Sciences

    The Two-Soul Problem: Aristotle, the Stoics, Galen
    Brooke Holmes, Ph.D.
    Professor, Princeton University
    Video

    Metabolic Materialism
    Hannah Landecker, Ph.D.
    Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
    Video

    The Concept of Metabolism, Biological Identity and the Challenges from Microbiome Research
    Cecilia Bognon-Küss, Ph.D
    Postdoctoral Fellow, Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences
    Video
  • Tuesday, February 19, 2019
  • Model Organisms in the 20th Century: Historical, Philosophic and Scientific Questions
    William deJong-Lambert, Ph.D.
    Professor of History
    Bronx Community College, CUNY
    Video

    Thomas Stoeger, Ph.D.
    Data Science Scholar
    Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems
    Center for Genetic Medicine
    Video
  • Monday, April 29, 2019
  • Darwinism, Democracy, and Race
    David J. Depew, Ph.D.
    Professor of Communications Studies
    University of Iowa

    John Jackson, Ph.D.
    Professor, James Madison College
    Michigan State University
    Video
  • Tuesday, February 19, 2019
  • Model Organisms in the 20th Century: Historical, Philosophic and Scientific Questions
    William deJong-Lambert, Ph.D.
    Professor of History
    Bronx Community College, CUNY
    Video

    Thomas Stoeger, Ph.D.
    Data Science Scholar
    Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems
    Center for Genetic Medicine
    Video
  • Thursday, August 16, 2018
  • Gene Drive, Gene Edits, and CRISPR: Are There Conceptual Implications Beyond the Technohype?
    Sahotra Sarkar, Ph.D.
    Associate Professor of Philosophy
    The University of Texas at Austin
  • Friday, July 27, 2018
  • Cancer Genomes and Shifting Standards of Completeness
    Anya Plutynski, Ph.D.
    Associate Professor of Philosophy
    Director of Graduate Studies in Philosophy
    Washington University in St. Louis
  • September 6. 2017
  • Natural selection and the genome: Episodes in the history of population genetics
    Jean-Baptiste Grodwohl, Ph.D.
    Research Associate, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
    University of Cambridge
  • August 3, 2017
  • When Did the Genome Disappear?
    Ehud Lamm, Ph.D.
    Senior Lecturer, The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas
    Tel Aviv University
  • December 19, 2016
  • The Multifaceted Legacy of the Human Genome Program for Evolutionary Biology
    Philippe Huneman, Ph.D.
    Director of Research
    Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences
    Video
  • September 8, 2016
  • Physics, Genetics, and Investigative Reasoning in Developmental Biology
    Alan Love, Ph.D.
    University of Minnesota
    Department of Philosophy
    Video
  • April 14, 2016
  • Intellectual Disability in the Genomic Era: DIagnosis, Prevention, and Identity
    Andrew Hogan Ph.D.
    Creighton University
    Department of Philosophy

Last updated: July 2, 2019