Going East to talk about the genome
Date Released: 12 March 2009A new collaboration took one Egenis fellow to Estonia.
In an exciting new collaboration Senior Research Fellow Dr Christine Hauskeller co-organised a workshop on identity in the genomic era in Tartu, Estonia.
‘What Cells and Genes Say About Who We Are’ was an open panel discussion organised in association with Dr Sabine Brauckmann from the Science Centre at the University of Tartu.
On the panel from the University of Tartu were Anne Kull of the Department of Theology, Toivo Maimets of the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, and Andres Soosaar of the Department of Public Health, as well as Dr Hauskeller and Andres Metspalu of the Estonian Genome Project.
“We live in the age of biotechnology with biobanks storing our DNA, scientists creating biomaterial hybrids for cell-based therapies of cancer, and when personal genomes will become available as public commons on the Internet,” said the workshop organisers. “In this workshop we presented the challenges we are facing, communicated recent experimental data and put up for discussion some issues concerning identity in the age of molecular data.”
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