Keynote Videos

Sharon Terry
"Lay Perspective on Genetic Variation"

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Sharon Terry has served as the president of the Genetic Alliance for the last two years and is the founding executive director of PXE International, a lay advocacy group for the genetic condition pseudoxanthoma elasticum, a condition both of her children have been diagnosed. More information...

Steve Olson
"Stories from our Genome"

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Steve Olson is the author of the award winning Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins (2002). He has been a consultant for the National Academy of Sciences and NIH, and served as Special Assistant for Communications in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. More information...

Vivian Ota-Wang
"Implications of Genetic Variation and Race"

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Vivian Ota-Wang is currently a program director for the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications Research Program at the National Human Genome Research Institute. She currently serves on several national advisory committees for the NIH. More information...

Francis Collins
"Bringing the Genome Home"

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Francis S. Collins is a physician-geneticist and the Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH. In that role he oversaw a fifteen-year project aimed at mapping and sequencing all human DNA. More information...