History of Molecular Biology and Genomics Lecture Series
Event Details
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
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Last updated: July 2, 2019