SynBERC:Seminar series/Steve Benner

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</nonwikionly> Synthetic Biology from Molecules Up: Applications to the Needs of Systems Biologists

Dr. Steve Benner, Director of the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution

Time: 4:00pm, Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

Location: Warren Alpert Building, Room 341, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Benner is a pioneer in synthetic biology, chemical genetics, evolutionary bioinformatics, and paleomolecular genetics. He is leading scientists at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution (FfAME) in a variety of multidisciplinary research in fields as diverse as chemistry, informatics, biology, geology, and astronomy to place biological chemistry within its larger "systems" context, from the cell to the organism, and from there to the ecosystem and the planet. Emerging from their work are new tools for systems biology and personalized medicine, as well as answers to some "big" questions: Where did we come from? What is our future? Are we alone? Team FfAME has recently entered the competition for the $10 million dollar Archon X PRIZE for Genomics; the objective is to sequence 100 human genomes in 10 days.

Contact: Harris Wang (hhwang AT fas.harvard.edu)

Remote Participation

A video stream of the talk will be available for real-time viewing. Just point Quicktime or VLC to the following stream:

rtsp://caprica.csail.mit.edu/SynBERC.sdp

If you have an openwetware account, also consider joining the chat to discuss Steve Benner's talk (or ask for technical help should the need arise).

If you don't watch the talk live, a link to a copy of it will be available on blip.tv.

UPDATE 3:50 PM 21-3-07 Unfortunately, all the ethernet ports in the conference room have been disabled. I am going try to webcast a lower-resolution version of the stream via the room's wireless network, but it's not clear it has sufficient bandwidth to support this. In any case, a high resolution copy will be online later. --Mac Cowell 16:00, 21 March 2007 (EDT)