From Natural to Synthetic Life: how genomic technologies will change life as we know it

Wednesday 21 October
6.00pm - 7.00pm

Mutual Community Lecture Theatre
Basil Hetzel Building
City East campus

Currently biology is experiencing exponential growth curves in technologies for reading and writing DNA.

These advances are set to change both how we live and how we look at life itself. Soon, DNA sequencing will be so cheap that we will easily be able to detect the genome sequence of any living creature, including humans. DNA synthesis will be so available that we will be able to recreate the genome sequence of any living creature with ease.

This lecture will also highlight the exciting possibilities that these technologies will bring, and the problems that can be solved - from health, to energy, to water.

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Science & Engineering for a Sustainable Future.
Division of Information Technology, Engineering & the Environment

Associate Professor Desmond Lun

Beyond his role as an Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at UniSA, Associate Professor Lun is Director of the Phenomics and Bioinformatics Research Centre.

His experience extends to the illustrious hallways of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Medical School where he was a Computational Biologist and Research Fellow in the Department of Genetics respectively. In 2006 he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois. Further to his academic achievements, he co-wrote the book Network Coding: An Introduction.