Extra Credit Blog #1
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| Background information on Reardon |
The event that I attend was a guest presenter named Jenny Reardon from the University of Santa Cruz and it was called Just Genomes? At first, I thought this was going to be the same presentation as the first event I attended with Daniel Navon, but I was complexly wrong. As the presentation began, I was very confused because it seemed she would just reference her book which me and many other students did not read so it was harder to grasps the information. After 15 minutes into the presentation I was able to make the connection from the presentation and had a better understanding. The main argument of this presentation was does genetics have a relationship to peoples race and color in their skin pigmentation, and also cheaper alternative to looking and solving someone’s personal genome.
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| Reardon beginning her presentation |
One correlation I made between this presentation and Navon presentation was the fact both of them did not like leaving questions unanswered. For example, Reardon was talking about when she worked on the genome project, there was a huge argument between scientist and how some just wanted to solve it and other wanted to understand why the genome worked a specific way. This is similar to Navon presentation when he was having a problem with solidifying his confusion but that never stopped him until he got the data needed to prove his theory correct (NAVON, 2018). Another portion of this class that related to this presentation was the section, Medtech and art. These two connected because of the standing issue of some people not having access to the material needed in order to preform specific trials or experiments which makes it that much harder to generate a conclusion and find results. This even also correlated to science and technology because through technological advancements it is making these experimental producers much easier and less expensive. (Snow C.P., 1959). Technology is allowing science research to be performed at a much cheaper and more effective rate.
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| My friends and I at our last event |
This event was definitely helpful despite being one of the more confusing ones. It gave me great background information about the genome project and the limitation many scientists are facing due to insufficient funds for their research projects. This presentation will help me in my final because it gave me the perspective of how many scientists are not able to perform expensive research trials due to not being able to afford the expensive machinery. Thanks to technology, this barrier will soon be diminished because it is making scientific experiments much cheaper. I would have defiantly recommended this event to my fellow peers because it gave a unique perspective to science and technology research. I feel like the negative aspects of science research aren’t really shown as they should, so people aware and possibly increase their research funds.
References
NAVON, Daniel PhD. “The gene didn’t get the memo”. The Social Genome Knowledge & Politics in a Postgenomic Society, 13 April 2018, La Kretz Garden Pavilion, room 1101, Los Angeles, CA. Presentation
Reardon, Jenny PhD. “Just Genomes?”. The Social Genome Knowledge and Politics in a Postgenomic Society, 18 April 2018, La Kretz Garden Pavilion, room 1101, Los Angeles, CA. Presentation.
Snow, C. P. “Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution.” Reading. 1959. New York: Cambridge UP, 1961. Print.
Uconlineprogram. Medicine pt3. YouTube. April 22, 2012. Length 21:19
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