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Smithsonian NHGRI Genome Exhibition

Smithsonian NHGRI Genome Exhibition



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Genome: Unlocking Life's Code Exhibition Closing Symposium New

Genome Unlocking Life's Code - An interactive kiosk at the exhibition, gobo girl with letters of T C G A,  the elephant at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum with DNA helices in the background

Genomics and Global Health: What does the future hold? 
When: SepSymposium postertember 30, 2014, at 1 p.m.
Where: National Museum of Natural History, Baird Auditorium

The closing symposium, in partnership with NHGRI, the National Museum of Natural History, and the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health focuses on how genomics can prevent, diagnose, treat and cure diseases for individuals, their families and global populations, and what the next decade holds in terms of genomic advances.

The closing symposium includes a day program from 1 p. m.- 5.p.m., and an evening program from 6:45 p.m. - 8:45 p.m.

Registration is required for both sessions: go.si.edu/genomefuture

Speakers include: Eric Green (NHGRI), Richard Lifton (Yale University), Pardis Sabeti (Harvard University and the Broad Institute), Charles Rotimi (NHGRI), and Anne Wojcicki (23and Me).

The special evening program features Carolyn Hax, Washington Post Advice Columnist and Barbara Biesecker (NHGRI), who will answer questions related to health, genetics and dealing with disease.

For more information: go.si.edu/genomefuture

The Genome Unlocking Life's Code Exhibition

On June 14, 2013, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. opened the high-tech, high-intensity exhibition Genome: Unlocking Life's Code to celebrate the 10th anniversary of researchers producing the first complete human genome sequence - the genetic blueprint of the human body - in April 2003. The exhibition is a collaboration between the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) of the National Institutes of Health.
Beginning in early 2013, the National Human Genome Research Institute began a series of scientific symposia and other public events to celebrate the HGP's completion and the launch of the genome exhibition at the National Museum of Natural History.  For a list of those celebratory events, go toThe Genomics Landscape a Decade After the Human Genome Project

Ongoing Programs

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Synthesizing Art and Science Through the Senses: Exploring the Aesthetics of DNA (September 23, 2014) [smithsonianassociates.org]
A panel of artisis, scholars and scientists comes together for a fascinating conversation on how arts and popular culture can provide unique insights into the narrative of human history told through our DNA. Afterward, raise a glass to the science and the art of winemaking in a special tasting.
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About the Exhibition's Funding

Funds for the Smithsonian-NHGRI exhibition and related initiatives were raised privately by both the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health.
Already, Life Technologies Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Life Technologies Corp. of Carlsbad, Calif., has pledged $3 million to fund the production of the exhibition itself. Additionally, more than $500,000 has been raised through the Foundation for The National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md., and from the Brin Wojcicki Foundation of Palo Alto, Calif.; the Celgene Corporation of Summit, N.J.; Pacific Biosciences of Menlo Park, Calif., Pac Bio president and chief executive officer Mike Hunkapiller, Ph.D., and his wife Beth; the New England Biolabs of Ipswich, Mass.; and from Genentech, Inc. of South San Francisco, Calif.

The Smithsonian NHGRI Exhibition Advisory Board

Learn about the people who helped to create the new exhibition: NMNH/NHGRI Advisory Board

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