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This session may be of particular interest to:  Practicing and Applied Anthropologists     Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges     Students
Program Number: 3-142
Type: Invited Session
Session Title: CONSUMING GENOMICS: ANTHROPOLOGY AT THE CROSSROADS
Session Sponsor: AAA Presidential Session
Session Date/Time: Sat., 1:45 PM-5:30 PM
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Organizer(s): DEBORAH BOLNICK (University of Texas at Austin), JOANNA RADIN (University of Pennsylvania) 
Chair(s): DEBORAH BOLNICK (University of Texas at Austin), JOANNA RADIN (University of Pennsylvania) 
Participants:  
1:45 PM: DEBORAH BOLNICK (University of Texas at Austin) -- Commercial Genetic Ancestry Testing as a Window into Anthropological Pasts, Presents, and Futures  
2:00 PM: JOANNA RADIN (University of Pennsylvania) -- Counseling Kinship: Genetic Genealogists and the Negotiation of Non-Paternity  
2:15 PM: RIPAN MALHI -- Viewpoint on DNA tests for Native American ancestry from private business and academia  
2:30 PM: CATHERINE BLISS (Brown University) -- Genomic Intersections with Race: The Invention and Expansion of an Ancestry Estimation Technology  
2:45 PM: GISLI PALSSON (Iceland) -- PERSONAL GENOMICS: deCODE, ICELAND, AND BEYOND  
3:00 PM: DISCUSSANT: JONATHAN MARKS (UNC-Charlotte)  
3:15 PM: DISCUSSION  
3:30 PM: BREAK  
3:45 PM: RICK KITTLES (University of Chicago) -- Inferring the ancestry of African Americans: Science and Cynicism  
4:00 PM: MICHAEL FORTUN (Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst) -- WHAT GENOMICS COMPANIES EAT  
4:15 PM: JONATHAN KAHN (Hamline University Law School) -- The Power of Race as a Residual Category in Pharmacogenomic Product Development and Marketing  
4:30 PM: ALONDRA NELSON (Yale University) -- Thresholds and Seams: Rethinking the Boundaries of Genetic Testing  
4:45 PM: OSAGIE OBASOGIE (UC Hastings College of Law) -- Regulatory Approaches to Genetic Ancestry Tests: Towards Race Impact Assessments  
5:00 PM: DISCUSSANT: SUSAN LINDEE (University of Pennsylvania )  
5:15 PM: DISCUSSION  
5:30 PM: End of Session
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