The Scottish Healthcare Genetics
Public Engagement Network
Events in August 2010
Sunday August 15th 2010, 18.00
Public talk
Edinburgh International Book Festival
Are Friends Electric?
Biologists have claimed we can only deal with a certain number of close friendships. Facebook’s 400 million active users average 130 friends each. Twitter averages 50 million tweets a day. With this much information and this many people, are we emotionally and personally connected, or just sharing information? Join Jason Bradbury, Gadget Show host and one of the world’s most influential Twitterati, and Mariann Hardey, social media researcher and blogger extraordinaire, for interactive chat.
Organised by: Edinburgh International Book Festival
Events in
September 2010
Friday September 3rd
to Monday September 6th,
DISC1 2010 Conference
Saturday September 4th,
Cystic Fibrosis - Better Understanding, Better Lives
Sunday September 5th,
Ancient Viral Voyagers
Wednesday September 15th,
Sharing Human Tissue
Friday September 17th,
Health technology assessment for genomic medicine: Challenges and prospects,