2012 Agenda

• 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)
  
  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

  PGP Exclusive (Seminar Rm, 3rd floor)
  
  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.

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• 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

  Vignette: Exceptional Human Traits
  Face Blindness featuring Ken Nakayama

• 5:45pm
  Wrap-up & Reception

*Agenda is subject to change