ELPL 2007

From RadishDB

Announcement

• Advertised via Lansing City-wide announcement system and ELPL event calendar.

What is Genome

Every one of us is consisted of around 50 trillion tiny units called cells. Each cell contains a copy of our genome, a long string of 3 billion A’s, T’s, G’s, and C’s, that encodes the instructions how nearly everything should work in our body. How do scientists study genomes? How can knowledge about genomes lead to advances in areas that will better our health, improve food quality, and protect the environments? Where can the knowledge be applied and what are the concerns? This one and half hour event will include a presentation on exciting breakthrough in genome science, a hand-on experience in navigating our genome using online resources, and a discussion and question/answering session about impacts of genome studies. There will be pizza and snacks and participants will get a free book, “Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters” by Matt Ridley.

Where

The East Lansing Public Library, conference room

When

1-2:30pm, March 13, 2007

Activities

Presentation

• Presentation PDF
• Get to know each other
• What is cell, nucleus, chromosome, and DNA?
• What is genome?
• What's in a human genome?
• Why sequencing human genome?
• What's personalized medicine?
• What kinds of scientific breakthrough does human genome sequencing lead to?

Genome playground

National Center for Biotechnology Information

this is the major information depository for nearly everything about genomes.

NCBI Genome Portal

All abut genome sequencing projects

Our NSF funded project

Comparative sequencing program for radish, a crop, a weed, and an important model system for evolutionary biology.

Discussion

• What are the ethical concerns?
• What are the legal concerns?
• What are the social impacts of genome sequencing?