Friday, April 11, 2025
1:20 – 2:25 pm
Location TBD
On Friday, April 11 at 1:20 pm, you are invited to join S&J affiliate and Associate Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Karen Miga’s BME 80G Bioethics course for a talk by Christof Koch – a panel discussion will follow.
A zoom option or recording may be available for members of the campus community who cannot attend in person. Register for the Zoom link here (TBD).
Christof Koch is a Meritorious Investigator at the Allen Institute.
Friday, April 04, 2025
1:20 – 2:25 pm
Location TBD
On Friday, April 04 at 1:20 pm, you are invited to join S&J affiliate and Associate Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Karen Miga’s BME 80G Bioethics course for a talk by Jonathan Lo Tiempo – a panel discussion will follow.
A zoom option or recording may be available for members of the campus community who cannot attend in person. Register for the Zoom link here (TBD).
Jonathan Lo Tiempo is a Fellow in Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Genetics and Genomics at Penn Medical Ethics & Health Policy.
Friday, April 18, 2025
1:20 – 2:25 pm
Location TBD
On Friday, April 18 at 1:20 pm, you are invited to join S&J affiliate and Associate Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Karen Miga’s BME 80G Bioethics course for a talk by Kim TallBear – a panel discussion will follow.
A zoom option or recording may be available for members of the campus community who cannot attend in person. Register for the Zoom link here (TBD).
Kim TallBear is Professor, Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience, and Society.
Friday, May 09, 2025
1:20 – 2:25 pm
Location TBD
On Friday, May 09 at 1:20 pm, you are invited to join S&J affiliate and Associate Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Karen Miga’s BME 80G Bioethics course for a talk by Stephanie Malia Fullerton – a panel discussion will follow.
A zoom option or recording may be available for members of the campus community who cannot attend in person. Register for the Zoom link here (TBD).
Stephanie Malia Fullerton, is Professor in the department of Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Washington School of Medicine.
Friday, May 16, 2025
1:20 – 2:25 pm
Location TBD
On Friday, May 16 at 1:20 pm, you are invited to join S&J affiliate and Associate Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Karen Miga’s BME 80G Bioethics course for a talk by Benjamin Capps – a panel discussion will follow.
A zoom option or recording may be available for members of the campus community who cannot attend in person. Register for the Zoom link here (TBD).
Benjamin Capps is Associate Professor at Dalhousie University.
Friday, May 30, 2025
1:20 – 2:25 pm
Location TBD
On Friday, May 30 at 1:20 pm, you are invited to join S&J affiliate and Associate Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Karen Miga’s BME 80G Bioethics course for a talk by Joanna Radin – a panel discussion will follow.
A zoom option or recording may be available for members of the campus community who cannot attend in person. Register for the Zoom link here (TBD).
Joanna Radin is Associate Professor of History of Medicine and History, Yale University.
Friday, June 05, 2025
1:20 – 2:25 pm
Location TBD
On Friday, June 06 at 1:20 pm, you are invited to join S&J affiliate and Associate Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Karen Miga’s BME 80G Bioethics course for a talk by Tina Lasisi – a panel discussion will follow.
A zoom option or recording may be available for members of the campus community who cannot attend in person. Register for the Zoom link here (TBD).
Tina Lasisi is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan.
Wednesday, June 07, 2023
5:20 – 7:00 pm
Classroom Unit 2 (map) or Zoom (registration TBD)
On Wednesday, June 07 at 5:20 pm, you are invited to join S&J affiliate and Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Karen Miga’s BME 80G Bioethics course for a talk by Susan Reverby on “Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and it’s Legacy” – a panel discussion will follow.
A zoom option is available for members of the campus community who cannot attend in person. Register for the Zoom link here (TBD).
Susan M. Reverby is Marion Butler McLean Professor Emerita in the History of Ideas; Professor Emerita of Women’s and Gender Studies at Wellesley College. Reverby is a historian of American health care, women, race, and public health with a focus on equality and ethics.
Monday, June 05, 2023
5:20 – 7:00 pm
Classroom Unit 2 (map)
On Monday, June 05 at 5:20 pm, you are invited to join S&J affiliate and Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Karen Miga’s BME 80G Bioethics course for a talk by Alexandra Minna Stern on “Eugenics, State Harm, and Reparations in California: An Unfinished History.”
Alexandra Minna Stern is the Humanities Dean and Professor of English and History, and at the Institute for Society and Genetics, at the University of California, Los Angeles. Stern founded and co-directs the Sterilization and Social Justice Lab, an interdisciplinary, multi-institutional research team that is reconstructing and analyzing the history of eugenics and sterilization in five U.S. states (Michigan, North Carolina, Iowa, Utah, and California).
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
5:20 – 7:00 pm
Zoom (registration)
On Wednesday, May 31 at 5:20 pm, you are invited to join S&J affiliate and Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Karen Miga’s BME 80G Bioethics course for a talk by Marcy Darnovsky on “Should We Genetically Modify Our Children?” – a panel discussion will follow.
Register for the Zoom link here.
Suggested Reading: Geneva Statement on Heritable Human Genome Editing: The Need for Course Correction, Trends in Biotechnology, Volume 38, ISSUE 4, P351-354, April 2020.
Marcy Darnovsky, PhD, is Executive Director at the Center for Genetics and Society, a nonprofit organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area that works to bring perspectives grounded in social justice, human rights, and healthy equity to considerations of human genetic and assisted reproductive technologies. She speaks and writes widely on the societal implications of human biotechnologies. Her articles have appeared in scholarly and general-audience publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Nature, and Trends in Biotechnology; she is co-editor of Beyond Bioethics: Toward a New Biopolitics (with Osagie K. Obasogie, University of California Press). She has appeared on dozens of television, radio, and online news shows; and has been cited in hundreds of news and magazine articles. Her PhD is from the History of Consciousness program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.