The Awesome Power of Genetics

Whitehead Institute's 2006-2007 Lecture Series for High School Teachers

All seminars will be held at 4:00 p.m. in the McGovern Auditorium, first floor, Whitehead Institute. For more information, contact Amy Tremblay at tremblay@wi.mit.edu or 617-258-7270.

Schedule of Seminars

Kick-Off Session: Tuesday, October 10

Hidde Ploegh, Member, Whitehead Institute
Thoughts on Viruses and the Immune System

Monday, November 6

Susan Lindquist, Member, Whitehead Institute
Using Yeast as a Model to Study Neurodegenerative Disorders [3.2 mb pdf]

Monday, December 4

Andreas Hochwagen, Fellow, Whitehead Institute
How Meiosis Relates to Birth Defects/Cancer [5.1 mb pdf]

Monday, January 8

Rudolf Jaenisch, Member, Whitehead Institute
Nuclear Cloning, Embryonic Stem Cells and Cell Therapy: Promises, Problems, Reality [4.8 mb pdf]

Monday, February 5

Mark Daly, Assistant Professor, Massachusetts General Hospital
Population Genetics [4 mb pdf]

Monday, March 5

Alex Marson, MIT graduate student and Harvard Medical School student
Cracking Open the Black Box of Autoimmune Disease [2.1 mb pdf]

Monday, April 2

Leona Samson, Director, Center for Environmental Health Sciences,
MIT Biological Engineering Division
Genetics of DNA Repair [5.4 mb pdf]

Monday, May 7

Glenn Miller, Scientific Director, Genzyme Corp.
Personalized medicine: the promise, the hype, the reality [4.1 mb pdf]

Monday, June 4

Judith Tsipis, Director, Genetic Counseling Program,
Brandeis University
Genetic Counseling: What is it? How Does it Work? [1.8 mb pdf]

Last updated June 7, 2007.