Day One
Friday, September 22
9:00 a.m. - 5:45 p.m.

Welcome and Introduction
9:00 a.m. promptly*
Ellen V. Futter
President ,
American Museum of Natural History

Dr. Mack Lipkin Distinguished Lecture
9:10 a.m.
What Does Knowing About Genomes
Mean for Science and Society?
Harold Varmus
President,
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

10:00 a.m.
Introduction
Nicholas Wade
Science Editor,
The New York Times

10:15 a.m.
Sequencing the Human Genome:
Elucidating Our Genetic Blueprint
Eric Green
Chief, Genome Technology Branch,
National Human Genome Research Institute
Director,
NIH Intramural Sequencing Center

10:45 a.m.
After the Genome:
Where Should We Go?
Leroy Hood
Professor and Director,
Institute for System Biology

11:15 a.m.
Break

11:30 a.m.
The Role of Patents
in Exploiting the Genome
Rebecca S. Eisenberg
Robert & Barbara Luciano Professor of Law,
University of Michigan Law School

12:00 p.m.
Questions from the Audience

12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Lunch Break

2:00 p.m.
Introduction
Robert Bazell
Chief Science Correspondent,
NBC News

2:15 p.m.
The Origins of Cancer
and the Human Genome
Arnold J. Levine
President,
The Rockefeller University

2:45 p.m.
Genetic Analysis of
Breast and Ovarian Cancer
Mary-Claire King
American Cancer Society Professor,
Departments of Medicine and Genetics,
University of Washington

3:15 p.m.
Break

3:30 p.m.
Social Side-Effects of the New Human Molecular Genetic Diagnostics
Troy Duster
Professor of Sociology,
New York University

4:00 p.m.
Questions from the Audience

4:30 p.m.
Break

Plenary Address
4:45 p.m.
The Essential and Non-Essential
Nature of the Human Genome
Stephen Jay Gould
Agassiz Professor of Zoology,
Harvard University;
Vincent Astor Visiting
 Research Professor of Biology,
New York University;
Frederick P. Rose Honorary Curator,
American Museum of Natural History

*The IMAX^TM Theater will open at 8:15 a.m. on each day. No one will be admitted while presentations are in progress. Program subject to change.