Bringing GE³LS Research "Home" to Canadians

The successful GEEE! in Genome Exhibit, developed in partnership with the Canadian Museum of Nature, continued its cross-country tour with stops in Thetford Mines Quebec (Jan 2009 – April 2009), Kitchener Ontario (May 2009 – Sept 2009), Vancouver British Columbia (Oct 2009 – Jan 2010) and Prince George British Columbia (May 2010 – Sept 2010).

Canadians and future generations are the ultimate beneficiaries of Genome Canada's investments in genomics research. They are also those with the greatest risks and benefits at stake. Strategic efforts aimed at bringing home for them – in a language they can both trust and understand – the advancements of science and its societal implications, are the key ingredient for success of the genomics research enterprise. GE³LS provides the critical interface in which that constructive dialogue can take place. Providing Canadians with effective communication tools needed to: animate informed science-society conversations at the family dinner table; engage meaningfully as key stakeholders in research funding and science policy debates; and ask socially-relevant questions of their policy-makers, advocacy groups and political representatives – either directly, or through the media as a vehicle – is the objective of this key element of the National GE³LS Strategy.

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