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The Genomics Landscape
In the September 2021 issue of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., details how social media provides NHGRI staff with a space to talk about their work, make genomics topics easy to understand, and show how genomics can positively affect people.
… Sequencing and Radiomics Working Group has issued a Request for Information (RFI) soliciting feedback from stakeholders … virtual activities. This year’s course featured the new Microbiome Lesson Plans , developed by educators and …
Virtual Exhibit
The Human Genome Project changed traditional understandings of how and why scientific research is conducted. It was, however, not without its detractors. Early in 1990, there was an effort to stop funding for the nascent Human Genome Project, in the form of a letter writing campaign.
… Caption: A copy of the first page of Martin Rechsteiner’s letter, … argued that the Human Genome Project would not draw new professionals in science and medicine towards the field … to the Coleman, the project “wouldn’t have much appeal for me or my colleagues.”   While it’s true that much of the …
Historical Collections
The NHGRI History of Genomics Program produced this series of virtual exhibits using archival materials from our own special collections to tell interesting and important stories from the Human Genome Project and the larger history of genomics.
… The NHGRI History of Genomics Program produced this series of virtual exhibits … from the Human Genome Project and the larger history of genomics. … View the Exhibits … Virtual Exhibits … Virtual Exhibits … The NHGRI History of Genomics Program produced this series of virtual exhibits …
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The Gene Sweepstakes — or GeneSweep as it became popularly known — was a three-year-long, sweepstakes-style contest organized by British bioinformatician Ewan Birney, Ph.D., of the European Bioinformatics Institute. Scientists participated in the contest by betting on the total number of protein-coding genes that would be identified in the human genome sequence generated by the Human Genome Project.
… was increasingly performed in more automated ways using new software tools, which quickly became much more efficient … manual approaches. The Ensembl Project website thus became a key place to get the most up-to-date information about the … name out there, get us out there, Ensembl. I did it almost for PR reasons, as well as for fun, as it were. I definitely …
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… Inter -Society Coordinating Committee for Practitioner Education in Genomics (ISCC) Meeting Minutes … project groups. He also relayed some logistics, including introducing the new dissemination and review policy, the need for a new logo, and summarized the new google drive available to …
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… CA . • The next in- person Board meeting is scheduled for March 14- 15 in Chicago, Illinois. Education • NSGC is approved as a provider of CEUs for genetic counselors. Application … • The 2014 AEC is scheduled for September 17- 20, 2014 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Information about the 2014 AEC …
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… QZ 50) The World Health Organization welcomes requests for permission to reproduce or translate its publications, in … farmers. In many countries, particularly those which are introducing recombinant DNA technology for the first time, … studying DNA fragments immobilized on nitrocellulose. This method was seminal to advances in human molecular genetics. …
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… 2014, NSGC had 3,159 members . Dues renewal is underway for 2015. Board of Directors • The NSGC Board of Directors … monthly by phone and met in -person September 16, 201 4 in New Orleans, LA . • The next in- person Board meeting is … -24, 2015 in Chicago, IL. Education • NSGC is approved as a provider of CEUs for genetic counselors. Please contact …
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… IL . • The next in- person Board meeting is scheduled for September 16, 2014 in New Orleans, LA . Education • NSGC is approved as a provider of CEUs for genetic counselors. Please contact …
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… National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research September 2017 Eric Green, M.D., … Committee for Practitioner Education (ISCC) Document 45 Method for Introducing a New Competency: Genomics (MINC) Document 46 I. …