Agenda

April 25, 2012

07:45am

 

Registration Opens

 

 

 

08:15am

 

Welcome and Opening Remarks
George Church

 

 

 

08:30am

 

Pioneer Session

 

"N=1: Pioneers of self-tracking"
 
Eric Alm -- 1 year daily sampling of gut microbiome
David Ewing Duncan -- experimental man
Larry Smarr -- 60 datapoints over 10 years
 
Moderated by Steven Dean

 

 

 

09:30am

 

Breakout Session
 
Flash Talks (amphitheater)

 
 
PGP Exclusive (Seminar Rm, 3rd floor)

 

 
Greg Biggers -- new research paradigms
Robert Green -- translational genomics
Isaac Kohane -- contest for genome interpretation
James Musick -- merging science and social media
Gregory Stock -- biomarkers for mercury toxicity
Latanya Sweeney -- MyDataCan.org
Dana Waring -- taking action: national education
 

 Invitation-only session for all Personal Genome Project participants attending the GET Conference, PGP staff & advisors.

 

 

 

10:45am

 

short break

 

 

 

11:00am

 

Breakthrough Technologies

 

 
Jay Lee -- single cell sequencing
Steven Gordon -- clinical sequencing
Stefan Roever -- nanopore sequencing
 
Moderated by Juan Enriquez

 

 

 

12:00pm

 

 

Vignette: Exceptional Human Traits

 

 

 

Absolute Pitch
Peter Gregersen and Elena Kowalsky

 

 

 

 

12:15pm

 

A Genomic View of Human Origins

 

 

 

Svante Pääbo, PhD

 

 

 

1:00pm

 

 

Lunch: take a break, or join a discussion or activity

 

 

 

 
"Personal genomics education: Take action in your community" Discussion session, 1:15-2:00pm (Room 258) More details
 
 
Join Dana Waring, Education Director of the Personal Genetics Education Project (pgEd), and Chris Korey, Professor of Biology from the College of Charleston (also PGP participant #huA4F281) for a conversation about how you can contribute to personal genomics education. What insights do you have that could help accelerate public understanding of the advantages as well as complexities of knowing one's genome?
 
In addition to exchanging ideas on the most pressing issues concerning the scientific and social implications of personal genetics, participants will leave with a set of tools to conduct formal and informal sessions that can educate the public in an unbiased manner. Our premise is that PGPers have a unique and powerful voice with which to engage the general public about the hopes, realities, and ethical nuances of personal genomics.

 Connected Health Pedometer Distro
1:15-2:00pm (2nd floor, Room 214)
Pedometers will be distributed to select PGP participants. More details to be announced soon.
 
 
QS Show & Tell
1:15-2:00pm (2nd floor, Room 217)
Learn about Quantified Self movement and see a few short "show and tell" talks by practitioners.

 

 

 

2:15pm

 

Genetics and Health 1.0
"How will genetic data be used by health care institutions?"

 

 
Ira Klein, Aetna
Eric Perakslis, FDA
Micheal Vincent, Pfizer
John Wilbanks, WeConsent.us
 
Moderated by Esther Dyson

 

 

 

3:30pm

 

Breakout Session
 
Flash Talks (amphitheater)  
Pete Estep -- PGP saliva to data pipeline
Jimmy Lin -- crowdfunding for rare disease
Jose Gomez-Marquez -- trickle up innovation
Holly Menninger -- wildlife of your home
Abigail Wark -- measuring circles in human evolution

  
 
Genome Workshop (Room 217)
"So, you have some genome data. What now?"
Led by Madeleine Ball, Joel Dudley, Daniel MacArthur
 
 
Genentech: Infinite Variations (Room 214)
Social media as an outreach tool for research
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4:30pm

Prototypes of the the Future

Cells as Technology & Personalized Tissues
Geraldine Hamilton -- Organs on Chips
George Church -- Personal Pluripotent Cells, Organs & Superpowers For All

 

 

 

5:30pm

 

 

Vignette: Exceptional Human Traits

 

 

 

Face Blindness featuring Ken Nakayama

 

 

 

 

5:45pm

Wrap-up & Reception

 

 

 

 

 

*Agenda is subject to change