Renowned Harvard scientist George Church will share his progress toward the “Next Generation for Genome Reading, Writing and Computing” at the Biodesign Institute at ASU Auditorium on Thursday, Oct. 28, at 9:00 AM.
George Church, Ph.D., a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and director of the Center for Computational Genetics, helped to launch the government-funded Human Genome Project that decoded the blueprint for life in 2000. He also founded Knome, a whole-genome sequencing and interpretation company in Cambridge, Mass., that claims to have sequenced and analyzed more human genomes than any other company worldwide.
Church collaborated to invent a faster way to create cellular mutations with automated genetic engineering, or MAGE, which uses DNA synthesized on chips. This technology may just be the leap scientists need to evaluate what impact environmental factors have on the human blueprint.
The seminar is open to the public, but seating is limited. On-site overflow rooms also will be made available. The seminar is being hosted by Biodesign Institute’s Center for Biosignatures Discovery Automation director Deirdre Meldrum. Meldrum leads the Microscale Life Sciences Center, a National Institutes of Health Center of Excellence in Genomic Science.
The Biodesign Institute is located on Arizona State University’s Tempe Campus at 727 E. Tyler Rd., Tempe, Ariz. 85287 (map and directions).
Read more about Church in “Innovator: George Church” Bloomberg Businessweek or his Harvard website.
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