Reporter: Aviva Lev-Ari, PhD, RN

Day three of the Biology of Genomes conference

BoG2012: Digging deeper into genomic regulation

Day three of the Biology of Genomes conference is complete. The ELSI session about “Public Genomic literacy for the public” was pretty interesting, and taught us that Americans actually know far more about science than most countries, despite being hobbled by bad high school science education and a preponderance of hostile religious beliefs, and the UK has pretty bad science literacy despite the fact that we once ruled the world. That’s all a bit beyond my pay grade so I won’t comment on it further. I have sort of lost track of the days, so this blog post is a mix of Wednesday and Thursday sessions, tied together by a pretty strong non-coding genome regulation theme. The presentations I am going to talk about came from “Computational Genomics” and “Functional And Cancer Genomics”.

http://www.genetic-inference.co.uk/blog/2012/05/bog2012-digging-deeper-into-genomic-regulation/