[CSBi-events] CSBi Seminar Series-3/3/06 (Dr. Drew Endy)

[CSBi events]

Dear CSBi Community,

This note simply serves to notify you of our upcoming CSBi Seminar 
Series event on Friday, March 3rd.  Please join us if your schedule 
permits!  Thank you.

Dr. Andrew Endy
Cabot Assistant Professor
Biological Engineering Division
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Languages and Grammars for Programming DNA"

Friday, March 3, 2006
Maclaurin Building (3-270)
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Light refreshments served beginning at 2:45 p.m.

Abstract

Recent investments in fabrication process engineering have improved 
the technology of DNA synthesis such that it is now reasonable to 
construct synthetic genes and small viral genomes.  Expected 
improvements in synthesis technology are sufficient to encourage 
several groups to begin work constructing synthetic bacterial genomes 
and yeast chromosomes.  The advent of large-scale synthesis 
technology will directly impact the science of genetics, promoting 
"perturbation design" as a new foundational approach (building on 
past foundations in logic, mapping, and pattern recognition). 
Synthesis also directly enables the engineering of genetic and 
genetically-encoded systems.  However, today, biological engineering 
lacks any robust framework that supports making good use of synthesis 
to encode useful, many-component integrated biological systems. 
While we can write DNA, we have very little to say.  Here, I'll 
review the current state of gene and genome synthesis technology, our 
initial framework for programming DNA, and discuss ongoing research 
to improve this framework.

Host:		Dr. Douglas A. Lauffenburger
	Biological Engineering Division
	Contact:	Isadora Deese		617.253.5494


Sponsored by CSBi
http://csbi.mit.edu/
Annual CSBi Seminar Series in Computational and Systems Biology
The entire MIT Community is welcome to attend!

-- 
Brenda E. Pepe
Administrative Assistant to Professor Christopher B. Burge
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Cambridge, MA  02139
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