Taming Biology as an Engineering Discipline
- đ¤ Speaker: Tom Knight, MIT and Ginkgo BioWorks
- đ Date & Time: Thursday 31 March 2011, 13:00 - 14:00
- đ Venue: Lecture Theatre, Dept of Plant Sciences, Downing Street
Abstract
Tom Knight is a senior research scientist in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. A computer scientist by training with a strong interest in cellular biology, he is acknowledged as one of the fathers of synthetic biology. In his MIT lab he created the concept of the BioBrick and began creating a library of BioBricks that could be used to build biological computation structures and standardised biological parts. He will talk about the challenges and prospects of moving biology to an engineering discipline.
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Tom Knight, MIT and Ginkgo BioWorks
Thursday 31 March 2011, 13:00-14:00