2024 Genomics and Society Seminar Series
We’re excited to announce the 2024 Genomics and Society Seminar Series!
In our second year of this series, we’re highlighting the exceptional knowledge, history, and scholarship we have at Yale. Our two speakers are historians and authors who will help us explore how science has shaped history, and how history continues to shape the science we do today. We’ll look at the foundational role eugenics played in the field of human genetics, including work at Yale, and how the field currently wrestles with this inherited legacy as it tries to promote equity in biomedicine. We’ll dive into the histories of biobanks, discussing how the ethical, legal, and cultural debates about biosamples impact choices being made in genomics.
Mark your calendars for the first two Wednesdays of May, at 1:30-2:30pm in the Sterling Hall of Medicine Library room L-115 (333 Cedar Street). A reception will follow outside the library. Out esteemed speakers include:
May 1st: Daniel HoSang Ph.D.: Toward an Anti-Eugenic Genetics: Practices, Pedagogies and Possibilities
May 8th: Joanna Radin Ph.D.: How Not to Build a Biobank, A History
We’re excited to have you join us and hope you might be able to spread the word to your friends and colleagues.
Best
-Steve Reilly, Dominica Cao & Jared Akers