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Stephen Scherer, “Our Human Variability” (Open Agenda, 2021)

Oct 29, 2021
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
Was Waterloo the Natural Destination?
01:51 • 2min
3
The Key Job Everybody Wanted Was at the National Research Council
03:54 • 3min
4
Biochemistry: A Predisposition to Biochemistry?
06:38 • 2min
5
The Human Genealogy Project - Can I Work on This in Canada?
08:15 • 3min
6
How to Replicate a Human Genome
11:02 • 2min
7
How Do You Separate a Human?
13:08 • 3min
8
Enzymes - Is This Trial an Error?
15:52 • 5min
9
The Origin of the Understanding of Copy Number Variation
20:50 • 2min
10
Genetic Mapping for Sistic Vibrosis
22:38 • 2min
11
Do You Know if a Marker Is Linked to Fibrosis?
24:30 • 3min
12
Cf Is a Pancreatic Answera Developmental Disease
27:46 • 3min
13
What Is a Jean?
30:18 • 2min
14
What Is a Protein?
32:44 • 4min
15
Mutation
37:06 • 2min
16
The Human Gene Project of Public Enemy
39:14 • 3min
17
Spectral Genomics
41:45 • 2min
18
How Much Do You Have to Do With All This Noise?
43:32 • 3min
19
How to Get Access to the Salera Data
46:39 • 3min
20
The Canadian Connection
49:10 • 3min
21
Genealogy - The Single Nucleotide Variation
52:25 • 2min
22
Copy Number Variables in Diseases
54:14 • 4min
23
Is There an Opportunity for Mutations?
58:00 • 2min
24
Genetic Variation
01:00:24 • 3min
25
The Guno Mide Copy Number Variant
01:03:38 • 4min
26
Mutations Variants - What's Our Best Guess?
01:07:19 • 1min
27
How Much Do You Know About Chromozomes?
01:08:46 • 3min
28
Is There a Possible Mutation in Autism?
01:11:21 • 3min
29
Mutations and ER Variation in Human Behavior
01:13:55 • 4min
30
Autism Spectrum Disorder
01:17:30 • 2min
31
Is There a Chromosome 16 Change?
01:19:30 • 3min
32
I'm Not Happy With Random Effects
01:22:01 • 4min
33
Gene Therapy
01:26:23 • 2min
34
Protein Folding
01:28:24 • 5min
35
Gene Therapy
01:33:01 • 2min
36
Is There a Biggest Grey Zone in Neuropsychiatry?
01:35:01 • 3min
37
Genetic Variation in the Human Genome
01:37:35 • 2min
38
Is There a Link Between Genetics and Plasticity?
01:39:23 • 4min
39
Are There Any Enhanced Concerns About Genetics?
01:43:39 • 4min
40
Genetic Testing Is Getting Better and Better, Right?
01:47:15 • 3min
41
Is There a Predisposition for Something?
01:50:01 • 3min
42
What's the Legal Obligation?
01:53:14 • 2min
43
How Many Have You Found Anything of My Dena?
01:54:58 • 3min
44
Personalized Medicine for Astigmatism
01:57:29 • 2min
45
The New Genomics Is Just Coming Now, Right?
01:59:44 • 3min
46
The Advantage of the Mutation in Lung Disease
02:02:35 • 3min
47
The Human Brain May Not Be the Best Way
02:05:20 • 2min
48
How Did You Get Into Autism?
02:07:04 • 4min
49
Is Big Data a Good Idea?
02:11:32 • 5min
50
Are You Concerned About Winning the Nobel Prize?
02:16:54 • 2min
51
Your Life Really Becomes a Responsibility
02:18:34 • 2min
52
You Won't Have Time. If You Win, You'll Have Ya
02:20:35 • 2min
53
What Makes Us Human?
02:22:53 • 3min