2008 National DNA Day Online Chatroom Transcript

This is just one question from an archive of the National DNA Day Moderated Chat held in April 2008. The NHGRI Director and many genomics experts from across NHGRI took questions from students, teachers and the general public on topics ranging from basic genomic research, to the genetic basis of disease, to ethical questions about genetic privacy.

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Can you explain to me how do you do your job?      Kris Wetterstrand, M.S.: Working with the Sequences, Maps and Bacterial Artificial Chromosome (BAC) Libraries Program and the ENCODE (ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements) project. My office's role is to fund research. So, I am not in a lab, but I work to support labs that conduct research. I attend a lot of meetings, do a lot of thinking and get to interact with a lot of great people. Flint Northern Academy in MI (11th grade student)

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