Speaker 1

George Church, PhD

Speaker Bio

Professor at Harvard & MIT, co-author of 716 papers, 164 patent publications & a book "Regenesis"; developed methods used for the first genome sequence (1994) & million-fold cost reductions since (via fluor-NGS & nanopores), plus barcoding, DNA assembly from chips, genome editing, writing & recoding; co-initiated BRAIN Initiative (2011) & Genome Projects (GP-Read-1984, GP-Write-2016, PGP-2005:world's open-access personal precision medicine datasets); machine learning for protein engineering, tissue reprogramming, organoids, gene therapy, aging reversal, xeno-transplantation, in situ 3D DNA/RNA/protein imaging

Host

Wyss Institute

Contact

Jacob Watts

Phone

6174327038

Email

events@wyss.harvard.edu