National Press Week

What is Press Week?

Each summer, The Jackson Laboratory joins with Johns Hopkins University to host Press Week, held in July during the second week of the world-renowned Short Course in Medical and Experimental Mammalian Genetics. Press Week gives science writers and journalists from across the nation a chance to hear first-hand from some of the world's leading researchers and clinicians about the latest breakthroughs in the rapidly advancing fields of molecular biology and medical genetics.

Major research findings are often announced during Press Week briefings, giving journalists the opportunity to file national news stories daily. And with the number of Press Week participants limited to fewer than two dozen, journalists can have direct, one-on-one access to top scientists who attend the Short Course.

Press Week 2008

Wednesday, July 23, 5 p.m.  through Wednesday, July 30, noon.

Design your own Press Week! Feel free to come early or stay late to attend the scientific lectures and workshops at the Short Course, which takes place Sunday, July 20 through Friday, August 1. More information about the 49th Annual Short Course in Medical and Experimental Mammalian Genetics.

Who attends Press Week?

Press Week attendees have included journalists from Newsday, Wired, The Boston Globe, Scientific American, Time Magazine, Dallas Morning News, Associated Press, UPI, Readers Digest, Chicago Tribune, Newsday, Nature, Science, Toledo Blade, The Washington Post, Science News, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Forbes Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times.

2008 Press Week Travel Fellowships

The Jackson Laboratory is sponsoring four $1,000 fellowships to enable graduate-level science writing students or relatively new science writers working at smaller media outlets to attend Press Week 2008 in beautiful Bar Harbor, Maine. The application deadline was April 30. Fellowship recipients will be notified by May 30.

Press Week 2007 topics included:

    • Complex traits
    • Individualized medicine
    • Ethical, legal and social implications of the genetics revolution
    • Genetic treatment and diagnostics: the latest


Contact:

Office of Public Information
The Jackson Laboratory
600 Main Street
Bar Harbor, Maine 04609-1500
Phone: (207) 288-6051
Fax: (207) 288-6076
E-mail: pubinfo@jax.org

For information on travel and accommodations to Bar Harbor, contact us or or visit the Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce. More program details available in January 2008.