Symposium Schedule
Saturday, November 15, 2008
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
LOCATION CHANGE - 2050 Valley Life Sciences Building, Chan Shun Auditorium
Joe Palca (NPR)-Moderator
9:00 AM Introduction
Ed Penhoet (UC Berkeley): Genomics and Society
9:15 AM Keynote
David Botstein (Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton)
Jasper Rine-Discussant
10:00 AM Coffee Break
10:30 AM Human evolution
Svante Paabo (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig)
Tim White, Dan Rokhsar-Discussants
11:15 AM Infectious disease
Jean-Laurent Casanova (Rockefeller University, New York)
Monty Slatkin, Richard Locksley-Discussants
12:00 PM Lunch
1:30 PM Language
Karin Stromswold (Rutgers University, Department of Psychology, New Brunswick)
Dan Geschwind, Marc Feldman-Discussants
2:15 PM Genetics of psychosis
David Porteous (Molecular Medicine Centre, Edinburgh)
David Cox, Bob Knight-Discussants
3:00 PM Coffee Break
3:30 PM Ethics and epigenetics
Alta Charo (University of Wisconsin Law School)
Radhika Rao,
Sam Barondes-Discussants
4:15 PM Closing remarks
Sydney Brenner (Salk Institute, La Jolla and UC Berkeley)
5:00 PM Reception
We appreciate the generous contribution from GENENTECH