August 25 The Human Genome Symposium is convened at UC Santa Cruz to discuss the world-changing impact of sequencing the human genome and practical, ethical, legal and privacy issues in a post-genomic world.
The Symposium included a scientific workshop and a public forum. Panelists at the forum were Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute; Robert Sinsheimer, chancellor emeritus and professor emeritus of biology, UC Santa Cruz; Gene Myers, vice-president of informatics research, Celera Genomics; and Mary-Claire King, professor of Medicine and Genetics, University of Washington. The moderator was Richard Harris, science reporter for National Public Radio and an alumnus of UCSC. The video and panel discussion recordings are available online.
As seen in University of California Santa Cruz Foundation Annual Report 2000–01, in a photo taken at or near the time of the August 25 The Human Genome Symposium is convened at UC Santa Cruz) | Left to right: Arthur Graham, UC Santa Cruz Foundation Trustee; Robert Sinsheimer, Chancellor Emeritus, UCSC; M.R.C. Greenwood, Chancellor, UCSC; David Haussler, professor of computer science and bioinformatics, UCSC; and UCSC graduate student Jim Kent