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[Esther L.]

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Subject: Drew Endy - Seminar Series April 20th
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 12:05:36 -0400
From: Miriam Scoggins <miriam.scoggins at duke.edu>
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This is the last Seminar Series of the semester. Thank you for your
participation and support.  Please forward this announcement to others in
your respective areas and departments.





Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy
Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology

Seminar Series
Wednesday, April 20, 2005, 3:00pm
(130 North Bldg – Research Drive)

Drew Endy, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biological Engineering, MIT

"Building Biological Systems"

A combination of technologies is enabling the cheap and automatic
fabrication of long fragments of synthetic DNA.  Increasingly, if we can
specify the information encoding a genetic system then we can construct a
physical instance. As a result, two constraints that impact the design of
natural genetic systems are removed. First, engineered genetic systems do
not need to descend directly from pre-existing systems. Second, the
designs of engineered genetic systems do not need to be able to change or
persist across evolutionary timescales. Here, I will discuss (i) our
redesign of the genome of a natural biological system, bacteriophage T7,
and efforts to construct and test the new genome, (ii) a proposed
framework for designing many-component integrated genetic systems, (iii)
work that needs doing in support of engineering biology, and (iv) possible
consequences of success with respect to current and future biological
risks.

Reception outside Room 118 North Bldg.





Miriam Phillips
Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy
Duke University
919.684.0884 - 919.668.2465 (fax)



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