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SUMMARY:Taming Biology as an Engineering Discipline - Tom Knight\, MIT and
  Ginkgo BioWorks
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CONTACT:Dr Jim Haseloff
DESCRIPTION:Tom Knight is a senior research scientist in the MIT Computer 
 Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. A computer scientist by tr
 aining 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 con
 cept of the BioBrick and began creating a library of BioBricks that could 
 be used to build biological computation structures and standardised biolog
 ical parts. He will talk about the challenges and prospects of moving biol
 ogy to an engineering discipline.
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre\, Dept of Plant Sciences\, Downing Street
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