Titel: ESRC Genomics Network 3rd International Conference: Mapping the Genomic Era: Measurements and Meanings

Termin: 7.10.2009 bis 9.10.2009

Veranstaltungsort:
City Hall
Cardiff, UK

Weitere Informationen:
http://www.genomicsnetwork.ac.uk/cesagen/events/conferences/title,8374 ...

Kurzbeschreibung: This conference in the EGN series will provide an opportunity to develop further the debate and dialogue around current and future developments in the life sciences, between academics working in a broad range of social science disciplines and associated stakeholders, including natural and biomedical scientists and policymakers.

The overarching theme of the conference seeks to consider how and where ‘measurements’ of different kinds are at stake, for example:


* The difficulties in producing common scientific, political, economic and social measures

* How the abstraction of measuring transforms the object to be measured

* How measurement can add to meaning and knowledge and/or detract from it

* The hidden costs of precision

* Consequences of particular forms of measurement for various groups and individuals

* Statistical power in relation to genome wide association studies, epidemiology, and their application in biobanking projects and personal genomics

* Measurement of the impact of research

This theme also seeks to examine the contexts in which ‘meanings’ are mediated, discussed and produced, such as in policy making, governance of science and technology, through clinical applications, and within different academic disciplines, public engagement efforts, civil society, activist communities, social movements, the media etc.

Kontakt: Mel Evans
Cesagen
Cardiff University
6 Museum Place
Cardiff, CF10 3BG
United Kingdom
Tel.: +44 - (0)29 - 20 87 00 24
cesagenevents@cardiff.ac.uk
http://www.genomicsnetwork.ac.uk/cesagen/

Veranstalter: Cesagen on behalf of the ESRC Genomics Network

Schlagworte: Genetische Tests/Beratung, Genforschung/-technik, Humangenetik