Here Is a Human Being by Misha Angrist Read Free Book Online Page B

Anna Need, Jason Smith, Linda Hong, Ryan Campbell, Jessica Maia, Abanish Singh, Tom Urban, Mingfu Zhu, Jacques Fellay, Liz Cirulli, Kim Pelak, Elizabeth Ruzzo, Curtis Gumbs, Erin Heinzen, Angie Cherry, Charmaine Royal, Chris Heaney, Subashini Chandrasekran, Sara Katsanis, Christine Oien, Alan Cowles, Sabrina Australie, Georgia Barnes, Jay Hamilton, Shelley Stonecipher, Ken Rogerson, Julianne O’Daniel, John Harrelson, Sharon Ellison, John Falletta, Geoff Ginsburg, Rob Mitchell, Amy Laura Hall, Priscilla Wald, Greg Wray, Philip Benfey, Dan McShea, Alex Rosenberg, Alex Cho, Christina Kapustij, Susan Brooks, Lauren Dame, Susanne Haga, Laura Beskow, Tomalei Vess, Lynne Skinner, Chris Tobias, Amy Fowler, Tom Burke, Cathy Sciambi, Donna Crutchfield, Ellen Brearley, Cindy Wicker, Simon Gregory, and my dear friend/philosopher/PERL maven, Mark DeLong.
    And to my collaborators from elsewhere: Louiqa Raschid, Ritu Agarwal, Samir Khuller, and Brad Malin—thank you for including me.
    Warm thanks to Maynard Olson, Oliver Smithies, Sam Levy, Vera Rubin, Craig Venter, and Heather Kowalski.
    To everyone involved with Project Jim, thank you very much: Jim Watson, Jonathan Rothberg, David Wheeler, Michael Egholm, Richard Gibbs, and especially Amy McGuire.
    Thank you, Jim Evans and Gail Henderson—see you at Glasshalfull. Much gratitude to Hal Dietz, a gifted physician and researcher, and a mensch. Thank you to Tiffany Marum for her lack of cynicism. Thanks to Bob Davis and Peter Whitehouse. Special thanks to Mary-Claire King.
    Thank you to Skip Gates, aka The Man, for his generosity and time. Thank you to his colleague at Harvard and my friend Duana Fullwiley. Many thanks to Rick Kittles. Thanks also to Amy Gosdanian and Abby Wolf.
    Chad Nusbaum was incredibly helpful; I hope I have not damaged his career. Others at the Broad Institute who were kind enough to speak with me include Stacey “Noodles” Gabriel, Pardes Sabeti, and Carsten Russ.
    The sequencing and genome biology community was rife with fascinating and generous people. These included Rade Drmanac, Jennifer Turcotte, Andy McCallion, Elaine Mardis, Steve Turner, Trevin Rard, Kevin McKernan, Alan Blanchard, Steve McPhail, Jay Flatley, Tristan Orpin, Ian Goodhead, Steve Quake, Evan Eichler, Hugues Roest-Crollius, Anne Pontius, David Bentley, Mostafa Ronaghi, Eddy Rubin, Richard Fair, Pauline Ng, Zhen Lin, Nelson Axelrod, and Zhuo Li.
    Many thanks go to my graduate adviser and friend Aravinda Chakravarti for the years of wisdom, openness, and hospitality.
    Thank you, friends: Cathy Olofson, Tara Matise, Sarah Shaw Murray, and Sue Slaugenhaupt.
    Thanks to John Inglis at Cold Spring Harbor. Thank you to Wendy Kramer and the Donor Sibling Registry. Thanks to Bill Catalona for his time and insight and to Cissy Lacks. Thank you also to Deb McDermott.
    Thank you to the indefatigable staff at
Genome Technology,
especially Julia Karow and Meredith Salisbury. Thank you also to Kevin Davies of
Bio-IT World
and Orli Bahcall and Myles Axton at
Nature Genetics.
    I am indebted to the genome bloggerati, especially Daniel Macarthur, Blaine Bettinger, Hsien Hsien Li, Jonathan Eisen, and Steve Murphy. Thanks also to Bora Zivkovic, David Kroll, and Sheril Kirshenbaum.
    Many thanks to the Genetics & Public Policy Center and to Paul Easton.
    Thanks to my writer friends, whose support never flagged: Rich Remsberg, Barry Yeoman, Carl Zimmer, Rebecca Skloot, Richard Ziglar, David Dobbs, David Ewing Duncan, Amy Harmon, and Thomas Goetz. Thanks to Nicole Chaison and Jen Bergmark. I offer my humble gratitude to Theresa Rebeck for all kinds of stuff.
    Warm thanks to Sea Cow, the best band a guy could have: DJ, Jennie, Shoney, and Sneezy. Thanks also to Durham’s answer to Martha Stewart, Julie Maxwell.
    Finally, I could not have written this book without the love, help, and buy-in of my family. Josh and Mira Angrist and their kids Noam and Adie housed and fed me time and again and tolerated my chronic