Monday, October 25
4:30 p.m.(AST)
On Zoom
New Technologies Impacting Medicine
By Professor George Church, Harvard University and MIT
Abstract
Biotechnologies are advancing exponentially spanning 20-million-fold cost and quality improvements in a decade with applications to multiplex genome editing, xenotransplantation, resistance to all viruses, portable sequencing, nanometer-resolution 3D imaging/sequencing. We’ll discuss the future of such approaches.
About the speaker
Professor at Harvard and MIT, co-author of 600 papers, 155 patent publications and the book “Regenesis”; developed methods used for the first genome sequence (1994) and million-fold cost reductions since (via fluor-NGS & nanopores), plus barcoding, DNA assembly from chips, genome editing, writing & recoding; co-initiated BRAIN Initiative (2011) and Genome Projects (GP-Read-1984, GP-Write-2016, PGP-2005: world’s open-access personal precision medicine datasets); machine learning for protein engineering, tissue reprogramming, organoids, xeno-transplantation, in situ 3D DNA, RNA, protein imaging.
