ELSI in Action: Eight Presentations from the ELSI Virtual Forum

The ELSI Virtual Forum, held online in June 2020, presented eight of the talks planned for the 2020 ELSI Congress, sadly canceled due to the pandemic. The recorded presentations are now available in the CERA Video archive and are well worth watching for anyone who missed the live events. Please click on any title for more information and to watch the video.

Integrating ELSI and Genomics: Past, Present, and Future (Keynote)

Eric Juengst, PhD; Pilar Ossario, JD, PhD; Eric Green, MD, PhD

Moderator: Amy McGuire, JD, PhD

Studying America’s Eugenics Era through an ELSI Lens: Data, Context, and Relevance

Natalie Lira, PhD; Nicole Novak, PhD, MSc; Elyse Thulin, MS; Alexandra Minna Stern, PhD

Polygenic Risk Scores & Behavioral Traits: Interrogating the Science & Ethics

Dalton Conley, PhD; Michelle Meyer, JD, PhD; Steve Hyman, MD

Moderator: Paul Appelbaum, MD

New Models for Ethical AI in Precision Medicine: Empirical and Normative ELSI Inquiry

Pamela Sankar, PhD; David Magnus, PhD; Ariadne Nichol, BA; Mildred Cho, PhD

CRISPR and Human Identity: Governing Germline Gene Editing

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, PhD; George Daley, MD; Bartha Knoppers, PhD