8:30 a.m. |
Welcome |
Elias Zerhouni
National Institutes of Health |
8:40 a.m. |
Opening Remarks |
Francis Collins
National Human Genome Research Institute
Aristides Patrinos
Office of Biological and Environmental Research
Department of Energy |
8:50 a.m. |
Reflections on the 50th Anniversary |
James Watson
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Sir Francis Crick (recorded)
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
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Session Chair: Herb Boyer, Universty of California at San Francisco |
9:15 a.m. |
Deciphering Nature's Alphabet: How Does DNA Work?
A Conversation |
9:25 a.m. |
Deciphering the Genetic Code |
Marshall Nirenberg
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, NIH |
9:45 a.m. |
Manipulating and Cloning the Double Helix |
Stanley Cohen
Stanford University |
10:05 a.m. |
Break
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Session Chair: Edward Rubin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Joint Genome Institute, DOE |
10:30 a.m. |
Deciphering Nature's Alphabet: Manipulating DNA
A Conversation |
10:40 a.m. |
Decoding the Information in DNA |
Phillip Sharp
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
11:00 a.m. |
Deciphering Nature's Alphabet: Developing Genetic Tools
A Conversation |
11:10 a.m. |
Ideological Consequences of the Human Genome Project |
Horace Freeland Judson
The George Washington University |
11:30 a.m. |
Lunch
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Session Chair: James Wyngaarden, Duke University |
12:30 p.m. |
Deciphering Nature's Alphabet: Imagining the Genome
A Conversation |
12:40 p.m. |
History of the Project: Beginnings |
Charles DeLisi
Boston University |
1987 - 1990 |
Bruce Alberts
National Academy of Sciences |
Getting the Job Done |
Maynard Olson
University of Washington |
Looking Beyond the Lab:
The Ethical, Legal and Social Implications Program |
Eric Juengst
Case Western Reserve University |
1:40 p.m. |
Beyond the Human Genome |
Eric Lander
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
MIT |
2:05 p.m. |
Break
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Session Chair: Richard Gibbs, Baylor College of Medicine |
2:25 p.m. |
Introduction to the Watson Lecture |
Kay Jamison
Johns Hopkins University
James Watson
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |
2:30 p.m. |
Watson Lecture:
Biology in the Era of Complete Genomes |
Shirley Tilghman
Princeton University |
3:00 p.m. |
Deciphering Nature's Alphabet: The Impact of the Human Genome Project
A Conversation |
3:10 p.m. |
HGP: Beyond the Human Sequence |
The Mouse Genome:
A Reflection on the Human Genome |
Robert Waterston
University of Washington |
New Frontiers in Comparative Genomics |
Eric Green
National Human Genome Research Institute
NIH |
The Genome's Life Stories |
Patrick Brown
Stanford University |
Computational Genomics: Sequence, Function and Evolution |
David Haussler
University of California, Santa Cruz |
Human Sequence Variation |
David Bentley
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute |
4:30 p.m. |
The Road Ahead |
Aristides Patrinos
Office of Biological and Environmental Research
Department of Energy |
4:40 p.m. |
A Vision for Genomics Research |
Francis Collins
National Human Genome Research Institute
NIH |
5:00 p.m. |
Adjourn |