On Monday I went to a seminar about biobanking and ethics led by Barbara Koenig, of the Mayo Clinic. Biobanks store blood samples and use them for research purposes. There are issues of possible misuse and theft, implications for insurance, and privacy concerns, but on the whole it was just interesting to see how these seminars work. It's pretty much just like the graduate class I took on Human Fertility - the leader of the seminar is the professor and we're all her students, except she values our input much more. But people still ask the same sort of questions as we do in undergrad classes, which is reassuring because it means I'm not expected to know everything, just to be attentive and learn quickly. I managed to write down some useful notes and names of people at the Bloomberg School (Johns Hopkins) and even a guy at UBC.
NOTE TO SELF: Stop wearing heels to work! I've had to walk around more than I thought and I have the worst blisters. Heels are not for transportation, just decoration.
Mondays' bonus of the day: someone brought in birthday cake, and it was delicious.
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