Event Details
Event Title ELSI and the Virome: Bugs, Drugs, and Precision Viral Care
Location Bondurant G100
Sponsor UNC Center for the ELSI of Biotechnology
Date/Time 05/08/2024 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
For more information, contact the event administrator: Kriste Kuczynski kriste.kuczynski@unc.edu
Event Presenters
Name Title  
Karen Meagher, PhD Assistant Professor of Biomedical Research, Mayo Clinic https://www.mayo.edu/research/faculty/meagher-karen-m-ph-d/bio-20457745
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This is an in-person event only. It will be recorded via Lecture Capture.

Advancing understanding of the human virome (all viruses that live in and on us) is a national scientific priority. Commensal relationships with viruses prompt questions of what it means to be human and healthy, shifting with new understandings of our complex cohabitation with the most abundant replicating entity on the planet.  Applications of human viromics include the capacity to detect directionality of disease transmission, bacteriophage therapy development, and virulence factor studies. In this presentation, ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of these viromics topics will be presented via vignettes which comprise textual scenarios designed to elicit attendee reflection.  We will discuss the ELSI implications of each, soliciting feedback on draft vignettes which will be used in future research.   


Lunch will be provided for the first 50 attendees.

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