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(L-R) Christina Palmer, Rich Moushegian, Brad Fidler, Jenn Hahn-Holbrook, Hannah Landecker, Mark Peterson, Nathan Ha, Aaron Panofsky, Taka Imai, Gabriela Cybis, Amisha Gadani, Eric Viliain (Director), Marine Lappé, Mike Alfaro, John Novembre, Otniel Dror, Victoria Vesna, Debra Greenfield, Jessica Lynch Alfaro, Lindsey Chambers, Patrick Allard and Alice Wexler.
Upcoming Events
Friday, Jun 21, 2013
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Strathmore Building, Room 200
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Thursday, Sep 12, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
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News + Blog
Chinese project probes the genetics of genius
The US adolescents who signed up for the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY) in the 1970s were the smartest of the smart, with mathematical and verbal-reasoning skills within the top 1% of the population. Now, researchers at...Genome of Tibetan Antelope Sequenced
An international team of genetic scientists has completed the genomic sequence of the Tibetan antelope (Pantholops hodgsonii), a native of the high mountain steppes and semi-desert areas of the Tibetan plateau. The scientists have decoded the genome of Tibetan antelope...The Medievalist and the Microbiologist: How Plague and Leprosy Have Opened Up New Perspectives on the History of Health
[Plenary Lecture given on *May 27, 2012* at the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine Annual Conference, University of Waterloo] Monica Green, an Arizona State University professor known as “the foremost authority on medicine in the Middle Ages,” examines how her field...European Society of Human Genetics Urges Caution Over Use of New Genetic Sequencing Techniques
The use of genome-wide analysis (GWA), where the entirety of an individual's DNA is examined to look for the genomic mutations or variants which can cause health problems is a massively useful technology for diagnosing disease. However, it can also...Articles + Resources
2013 | Hannah Landecker + Aaron Panofsky – From Social Structure to Gene Regulation, and Back: A Critical…
ISG professors Dr. Hannah Landecker and Dr. Aaron Panofsky have published a paper [...]
2013 | Patrick Allard – “A C. elegans Screening Platform for the Rapid Assessment of Chemical…”
ISG faculty Patrick Allard published a paper, “A C. elegans Screening Platform [...]
2013 | Christina Palmer et.al – “Deaf Genetic Testing and Psychological Well-Being in Deaf Adults”
ISG faculty Christina Palmer, Janet Sinsheimer, and Wayne Grody along with ISG [...]
2013 | Melissa Hines – “Gonadal Hormone Influences on Human Neurobehavioral Development…
ISG Visiting Scholar, Melissa Hines, published the article, “Gonadal Hormone [...]
