Issue 44: Sept / Oct 2012

With a Synthetic Biology Approach, A Quest for Better Medicine and Deeper Biological Insight

• Director's Message
• Room for Debate
• Adapt to Thrive
• Next-Gen Crime and Punishment
• Interactome Highlights
• IGSP 2.0

Issue 43: Education Issue 2012

Catch the Wave: At IGSP, Undergrads Find Fast Track to Success in Early, Open-Ended Research Experiences

• Director's Message
• Creativity Spoken Here
• Let's Work Together
• Two of a Kind

Issue 42: Nov / Dec 2011

Bias on the Brain: Brain Studies Seek the Genetic Roots of Our Differences in Personality and Behavior

• An App for That?
• Peril and Progress

Issue 41: Sept / Oct 2011

Information Age: Driven by Genomic Complexity, Old Barriers Between Disciplines Wear Thin

• Science Matters
• Next Big Things
• Germ Fighters
• Supersize Me
• Life Courses

Issue 40: Apr/ May 2011

Science in the Service of Society: How the Products of Genomics Find Their Way in the World

• When Elephants Fly
• Operation Alzheimer's
• It's a Small World
• Off the Shelf
• Student Highlight

Issue 38: Sept/ Oct 2010

Two to Tango: Genomic Studies of Symbioses Reveal the Impact of Life's Most Intimate Parterships

• Life Recreated? Redefined?
• Synthetic Biology in Washington
• Genomes for Sale
• Who are We, Anyway?

Issue 37: Apr/ May 2010

Genomes for the Masses: With Next-Gen Genomic Tools, Duke Research Tackles Questions in Ways Unthinkable Before

Meet the faculty and students who are using genomic tools to tackle chlamydia, tidal rhythms, the ingredient that makes mustard spicy, yeasts in the wild, the way mice smell, an odd desert fern, a fruit fly mystery, fungal diversity, primate brains, the beneficial bugs in baby poop, and more

Issue 35: Nov/ Dec 2009

Code Finders: In Search of Meaning in DNA Once Thought to be Junk

• Genomes by Design
• Genome Diner
• Summer Fellow Returns
• Genome Research & Ed Society

Issue 34: Sept/ Oct 2009

Got the Bug: By Harnessing the Genome, Duke Scientists Take Aim at Infectious Diseases

• Genomes Gone Wild
• Primate Push
• Minding the Gaps
• Dissecting Dengue Fever
• Hep C Case Cracked
• Race and Medicine
• Catching a Cold Update

Issue 32: Nov/ Dec 2008

Team Science: Reaching Across Disciplines Pays Off with Big Discoveries

• Message from the Director
• An Unruly Environment
• All in the Family
• Charting Medicine's New Course

Issue 31: Sept/ Oct 2008

GINA Prevails: After 13 Years, Federal Law Offers Protection against Genetic Discrimination

• Message from the Director
• In Brief: Focus on Cancer
• Genome Explorations
• On Infertile Ground
• Rare Finds in Dark Matter

Issue 29: Nov/ Dec 2007

Caspi, Moffitt, Nature and Nurture: New Arrivals Explore Genes, Environment and Behavior

• Tunes from the Focus Program
• Accentuate the Positive
• So Easy, a Cave Man Could do it?
• Profile: Charmaine Royal, PhD
• Contagion Fever: Catch It

Issue 28: Sept/ Oct 2007

Network News: Systems Biology Takes Root in Duke Science and Health

• Message from the Director
• Prospecting for Health
• Game, Set Point, Match
• Profile: Ornit Chiba-Falek, PhD
• Recent Books by IGSP Authors

Issue 26: Mar/ Apr 2007

The Revolution will be Blogged: Web Logs Meet Genomics and the Life Sciences

• Message from the Director
• Under the Micro Scope
• Teenage Synthetic Biologists
• Profile: Laura Beskow, PhD
• Profile: David MacAlpine, PhD

Issue 25: Jan/ Feb 2007

Under the Sea: Duke Genomicists and the Sea Urchin Genome

• 2006: The Genome Year in Review
• Reconciling Gods and Genes
• There Oughtta Be a Law
• Bioinformatics: Size Matters
• Faculty Profile: Anil Potti, MD

Issue 23: Sept/ Oct 2006

Putting the DNA into Dance: Lerman and Company Brings “Ferocious Beauty: Genome” to Duke

• Message from the Director
• Family Ties
• Bioart and Genome Science
• Faculty Profile: Susanne Haga

Issue 22: May/ Jun 2006

Of Jocks and Genes: The Uncertain Prospect of Genetic Testing for Atheletes

• Message from the Director
• Nuclear Gene
• The Issue of Tissue
• Only a Fly?
• Faculty Profile: Mike Weale

Issue 20: Jan/ Feb 2006

The Modern Synthesis: Intellectual Property and Synthetic Biology

• 2005: The Genome Year in Review
• The Other Microarray
• Q&A with Stephen O'Brien
• From Genes to Vaccines
• Faculty Profile: Beth Sullivan

Issue 19: Nov/ Dec 2005

A Prescription for Success: Putting Pharmacogenetics into Practice

• Message from the Director
• Faculty Profile: Brian Chadwick
• The Way Things Used to Be
• The Fantastic Plastic Brain
• The Crooked Path to Disease
• Faculty Profile: Jingdong Tian

Issue 17: May 2005

Seize the Day: Goldstein and McNamara Combine Forces Against Epilepsy

• Message from the Director
• DNA Use in Computing
• Alex Rosenberg on Autonomy
• Back to the Mines
• Faculty Profile: Lindsay Cowell

Issue 16: April 2005

The Path of Least Resistance: Using Genome Sciences to Fight Ovarian Cancer

• Message from the Director
• Ovarian Cancer: Causes, Risks
• Whither the God Gene?
• A Conversation: Stuart L. Pimm
• Genome Innovations
• New Faculty Profile: Jun Zhu

Issue 14: February 2005

Goldstein to Head New IGSP Center: Population Genomics & Pharmacogenetics to Focus on Drug Response

• Message from the Director
• Faculty Profile: Paul Magwene
• Q&A with David Botstein
• Brain Gain
• Rubbing Shoulders with Giants

Issue 13: January 2005

In Focus: Program Introduces Genome Revolution to First-Years Students

• 2004: Year in Review
• Lingchong You, PhD
• Getting the Blood Moving
• Networking about Networks
• Designer Proteins
• Genome Innovations

Issue 11: October 2004

The Forest for the Trees: Nicholas School to Host Forestry Genomics Forum at Duke

• Message from the Director
• Meet Phillip Febbo, MD
• Genomic Profiling
• Better Living Through Chemistry
• Reardon Joins IGSP

Issue 10: September 2004

From the Genome to the Chapel: Contemplating Darwin and Divinity

• Message from the Director
• Center for Public Genomics
• In a Brighter Mood
• Running Interference
• As the Worm Turns
• Inaugural Wyngaarden Fellow

Issue 8: May 2004

Fungus Among Us: Dietrich Leads Ashbya Genome Sequencing Effort

• Message from the Director
• Eric Lander on the Genome
• One Gene, Two Diseases
• Faculty Profile: Scott Alper, PhD
• What Your Mother Should Know

Issue 7: April 2004

Whose Genome Is It Anyway? Public Genomics Initiative Coalesces with Input from Sulston

• Message from the Director
• Conversation with Eric Green
• Just Don't Call Them Monkeys
• Go Fish
• Q&A with James Wyngaarde

Issue 5: February 2004

Environmental Genomics: Not Waiting to Exhale. Initiatives Range from Lab to Community

• Message from the Director
• Q&A with David Seo
• Q&A with Maria Sippola-Thiele
• Focus on the Genome Revolution
• Biomedical Engineering

Issue 4: January 2004

Center for Genomic Medicine is Born: Called “Logical Missing Piece”

• The Genome Year in Review
• Duke Undergrads and the Genome
• Reflections on Race
• Nevins Named Director of CGT

Issue 02: October 2003

Inaugural GELP Fellows Seek to Focus on Ethics, Law and Policy in Real Time

• Message from the Director
• Faculty Profile: Arti Rai
• Staff Profile: Chris Tobias
• Nevins and West Join Forces
• Gene Profiling and the NBCC

Issue 1: September 2003

IGSP Bioinformatics and Genome Technology Doctoral Program Graduates to the Big Time

• Message from the Director
• Faculty Profile: Simon Gregory
• Faculty Profile: Laura Rusche
• IGSP Centers Get Home
• Udall Centers Meeting