Dan Gibson
Synthetic Genomics, Inc.
DNA Technologies
Design & synthesis of cells from the bottom up
Friday, February 16, 2018
12:00 noon
RRI 101
Host: Ian Ehrenreich
Abstract: The American physicist Richard Feynman once said, ‘What I cannot create, I do not understand’. With that inspiration, we set out to attain a deeper understanding of life by assembling it ourselves. Over the past 15 years, our teams at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) and Synthetic Genomics, Inc. (SGI) have been developing tools to design whole genomes, synthesize and assemble them in the lab, and install them into a living cell. Our goal was not just to elucidate the genetic components required for life, but also to establish the capacity to create organisms custom-tailored to specific industrial applications. Progress towards these goals will be discussed.
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