{"id":1045,"date":"2010-05-17T16:06:42","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T20:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2010-05-17T16:06:42","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T20:06:42","slug":"robert-green-to-speak-at-world-science-festival-and-consumer-genetics-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/2010\/05\/17\/robert-green-to-speak-at-world-science-festival-and-consumer-genetics-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Green to Speak at World Science Festival and Consumer Genetics Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GSI Member, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alzresearch\/team\/faculty\/green.html\">Robert Green<\/a> will be a guest speaker at two prominent events this June: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldsciencefestival.com\/our-genomes-ourselves\">The World Science Festival<\/a> in New York and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumergeneticsshow.com\/\">Consumer Genetics Conference<\/a> at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston.\u00a0 Below is the description of Dr. Green&#8217;s discussion at the World Science Festival.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Our Genome Ourselves<\/strong> &#8211; World Science Festival<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span>Thursday, June 3,  2010, <span>8:00 PM<\/span><span> &#8211; <\/span><span>9:30  PM<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;There is a revolution underway in the world of medicine. \u00a0As  researchers identify the genetic variants responsible for cancer,  schizophrenia and diabetes, and doctors tailor medications and  diagnostic tests specifically for your genomic makeup, we inch closer to  personalized medicine. But what does this mean for you today? \u00a0And how  will it impact your health care ten, 20 or 30 years in the future? Join  scientists standing on the leading edge of genomics to learn the  promise, pitfalls, and realities barreling toward us.&#8221; &#8211; WSF Website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GSI Member, Robert Green will be a guest speaker at two prominent events this June: The World Science Festival in New York and the Consumer Genetics Conference at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston.\u00a0 Below is the description of Dr. Green&#8217;s discussion at the World Science Festival. Our Genome Ourselves &#8211; World Science Festival Thursday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2897,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2897"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions\/1046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}