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Date: Thursday
February 2, 2012
Time: 6:00 - 9:00 pm, presentation begins at 6:45 pm
Location: Triple Ring Technologies, 39655 Eureka Dr. Newark
Speaker: Andrew Hessel
Cost: The seminar is free of charge, but registration is required for planning purposes
On-Site registration: A limited number of on-site registrations will be available
About the Seminar:
Welcome to the exciting field of synthetic biology, where cells are computers, genomes are operating systems, and viruses are "apps". Founded on the most powerful yet inexpensive technologies humanity ever developed - digital computing, DNA sequencing, and DNA synthesis - synthetic biology has been building up a head of steam for the last decade. Making a biotechnology company used to take a roomful of brilliant PhDs, state-of-the-art labs, millions of dollars, and a decade of R&D to reach market. Not anymore. With synthetic biology, anyone with a copy of Biology for Dummies, a laptop, and a credit card can give it a go. What does the future hold? Andrew Hessel, geneticist turned futurist, will walk you through some of the startling possibilities.About the Speaker:
Andrew Hessel is a consulting biologist and visionary in synthetic biology and open source biology. His efforts to raise awareness of the benefits in this field have been supported by the University of Oklahoma, the University of Toronto, MIT, and most recently, the Alberta Ingenuity Fund. Andrew is the co-founder of the Pink Army Cooperative, the world's first cooperative biotechnology company and co-chairs the Biotechnology and Bioinformatics track at the Singularity University. He has been responsible for program development for iGEMS, the international Genetically Engineered
Machines synthetic biology training program. Andrew earned his MSc. in bacterial genomics from the University of Calgary.
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