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| Tuesday, September 18, 2012
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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy – New insights into Disease Pathogenesis
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Speaker; Jeffrey E. Saffitz, Mallinckrodt Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Chairman, Dept. of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Cardiovascular Seminar Series Department of Cardiology | Boston Children’s Hospital
Location: Enders Auditorium, Children's Hospital
This conference is supported by the Faye and Karen Sinclair Research Fund for Congenital Heart Disease
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Michelle Merry
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6:00 PM
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Sigmund Socransky Memorial Symposium
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The Forsyth Institute will be hosting the Sigmund Socransky Memorial Symposium on September 18, 19, and 20, at the Joseph B. Martin Center, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Sigmund Socransky was a true giant in oral microbiology and periodontology for more than a half century. Through his many contributions to basic, translational and clinical knowledge, he helped to launch the era of modern periodontal disease research. The conference will include a day and a half of speaker sessions featuring international experts in inflammation, microbiology and periodontology.
Registration is $75. 10.5 Continuing Education Credits will be provided by The Forsyth Institute.
Learn more about the program and register to attend via Forsyth’s website: http://www.forsyth.org/support/socransky.html
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Pam Quattrocchi
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| Wednesday, September 19, 2012
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6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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| Thursday, September 20, 2012
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Computer-Aided-Biology -> Biology-Aided-Computers
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IEEE Computer Society and GBC/ACM
Broad Institute Auditorium (formerly MIT building NE-30)
George Church, Director of the Center for Computational Genetics and Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard and MIT, Associate member of the Broad Institute
The Omics data explosion is leading to ever higher quality computational models and has already led to computer-aided-design of synthetic systems to swiftly test these models. The exponential improvement in the cost per base pair of sequencing and synthesis of DNA (currently running at 8X/year) is now at the point where it is beginning to overwhelm the 1.5-fold/yr changes in computing efficiency, storage density, and I/O. These developments have the potential to enable new classes of neural systems. DNA nanostructures have already led to compact storage and simple nanorobots, which integrate sensors, logic and actuators capable of specific impact on cancer and T-cells. Such methods may soon also enable new kinds of complex circuits.
DNA is particularly suitable for immutable, high-latency, sequential access applications such as archival storage. DNA storage is very dense and is not restricted to a planar layer, and is often readable despite degradation in non-ideal conditions over millennia. Finally, DNA's essential biological role provides access to natural reading and writing enzymes and ensures that DNA will remain a readable standard for the foreseeable future.
Recent work at the Church lab has been exploring the technologies needed to make DNA programming a reality. More information is online at http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/08/dna-storage.html and http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2012/08/15/science.1226355.full . This talk will report on recent experiments with DNA storage and discuss future use of DNA as a storage, computation and communication mechanism.
George Church is Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard and MIT, an associate member of the Broad Institute, and Director of the Center for Computational Genetics. He graduated from Duke University with degrees in Chemistry and Zoology, co-authoring research on 3D-software & RNA structure with Sung-Hou Kim. His PhD from Harvard (with Wally Gilbert) included the first direct genomic sequencing method in 1984. He helped initiate the Human Genome Project while working Biogen Inc. and as Monsanto Life Sciences Research Fellow at UCSF with Gail Martin. He invented broadly-applied concepts of molecular multiplexing and tags, homologous recombination methods, and array DNA synthesizers. Technology transfer of his work on automated sequencing & related software to Genome Therapeutics Corp. resulted in the first commercial genome sequence (the human pathogen, H. pylori, 1994). He has served in advisory roles for 12 journals (including Nature Molecular Systems Biology) and 5 granting agencies. Innovations in DNA reading & writing & allele replacement in cells lead to current research & commercialization in human genomics (Complete Genomics, PersonalGenomes.org, 23andme, Knome) & synthetic biology (SynBERC, Joule, LS9) & new ethics/security strategies. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Church and http://arep.med.harvard.edu/gmc/ for more details.
George is also the co-author of a new book "Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves". More information is online at http://www.amazon.com/dp/0465021751 .
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Peter Mager
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Week of Sunday, September 16, 2012
