Please join us for our 10th Anniversary Conference. . .
The Consortium and the Joint Degree Program regularly organize conferences and symposia with the support of other units on campus. Featuring nationally-known speakers and University of Minnesota faculty, these events have focused on issues raised by patenting genes, genetically modified organisms in the food supply, pharmacogenomics, the limits of biomedical privacy, children's environmental health, public health responses to bioterrorism, how to regulate assisted reproduction, and agricultural intellectual property rights.
The links below lead to information on upcoming and past conferences, including videos.
2008-09
What's Next in Law, Health & the Life Sciences? Debating Openness, Access & Accountability
Friday, March 6, 2009 8:30 am-5:30 pm
Cowles Auditorium, Hubert H. Humphrey Center, University of Minnesota
2007-08
Emerging Problems in Neurogenomics: Ethical, Legal & Policy Issues at the Intersection of Genomics & Neuroscience
Friday, February 29, 2008 8:45 am-5:00 pm
Cowles Auditorium, Hubert H. Humphrey Center, University of Minnesota
2006-07
Creating Stem Cells by Research Cloning: Scientific, Ethical, Legal & Policy Challenges
Monday, February 26, 2007 8:30am-5:00pm
Theater, Coffman Memorial Union, University of Minnesota.
Managing Incidental Findings in Human Subjects Research: From Imaging to Genomics
Tuesday, May 1, 2007 8:00am - 5:00pm
Cowles Auditorium, Hubert H. Humphrey Center, University of Minnesota
2005-06
Terrorist Threats to our Food Supply: Food Protection and Defense—Science, Ethics & Law
Friday, April 21, 2006 8:30am - 4:45pm
Cowles Auditorium, Hubert H. Humphrey Center, University of Minnesota
The Risks Posed by New Biomedical Technologies: How Do We Analyze, Communicate & Regulate Risk?
Friday, May 19, 2006 8:15am - 5:00pm
Room 25, Mondale Hall, University of Minnesota Law School
| Annual Event Themes | |||
| 2008-09 | Synthetic Biology: The Science, Ethics & Law of Creating New Life | ||
| 2007-08 | Neurogenomics, the global biofuels debate, assisted reproduction and its markets, oversight of biomedical technologies, and emissions responsibilities within and between nations | ||
| 2006-07 | Nutrigenomics, nutraceuticals, and direct-to-consumer marketing of genomic nutritional profiling, and science and politics--controversies in regulation and national security | ||
| 2005-06 | Implications of neuroscience, and the science, ethics and policy of energy and the environment | ||
| 2004-05 | Medical devices and innovation, cutting-edge issues in stem cells, and the use of racial and ethic categories in biomedical research | ||
| 2003-04 | Human subjects research, agricultural and environmental ethics, children's environmental health, and intellectual property rights | ||
| 2002-03 | Public health | ||
| 2001-02 | The revolution in genetic, reproductive, and stem cell technologies | ||
| 2000-01 | Environment and biotechnology | ||