HC70A Winter 2006Genetic Engineering in

Medicine, Agriculture, and Law

Professor Bob Goldberg

Class Announcements 2/2/06

Take-Home Exam& Oral Mid-Term Exam

•Questions Out - 2/14

•Questions Due - 2/28

•Mid-Term Oral - 2/28

Tuesday Lecture & Reception For

Officer Harry Klann“Using DNA To Catch Criminals and

Exclude the Innocent”

•Reception On Patio After Class For Everyone Questions, Questions, Questions!!!!

•Dinner in Faculty Center For Those Scheduled With Me!!!!

RSVP Dinner (jluke@mcdb.ucla.edu)

Lecture & Reception For Dr. Richard Hamilton

“How To Make a Biotech Company”

•Reception On Patio After Class For Everyone Questions, Questions, Questions!!!!

•Dinner in Faculty Center For Those ScheduledWith Me!!!!

RSVP Dinner (jluke@mcdb.ucla.edu)

Who Is Richard Hamilton?CEO, Ceres, Inc., Thousand Oaks,

CA

http://www.ceres-inc.com/ rhamilton@ceres-inc.com

Chief Executive Officer – Dr. Richard Hamilton – Dr. Hamilton joined Ceres in 1998. He served as the Chief Financial Officer until September 2002, at which time he was

appointed President and Chief Executive Officer and subsequently elected to the Ceres Board of Directors. Dr. Hamilton is Vice Chairman of the Biotechnology Industry

Organization and Chairman of their Food and Agriculture Governing Board. Earlier in his career Dr. Hamilton was a Principal at Oxford Bioscience Partners, one of the

leading investors in the genomics field and a founder of Ceres. From 1990 to 1991 he was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Hamilton holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from Vanderbilt University.

Relevant Reading For Discussion & Lecture

•Human Genome Project Information

doegenomes.org

Founder Mutations

•The Genographic Projectnationalgeographic.com

•American Society of Law, Medicine, & EthicsDNA Forensics and Civil Liberties Workshop Summary

The Land of Milk & Honey

The Alternative Genome

Discussion 2/8/06

•Review

•Films on DNA Testing & The Law