CAPSTONE LECTURE
Pittcon is pleased to announce that Steven A Benner, Distinguished Fellow at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, will be the Capstone Lecture speaker for Pittcon 2012.
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Steven A Benner
Distinguished Fellow at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution
Title: Redesigning DNA: Fixing God’s Mistakes Read Abstract
Date: Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Time: 5:00 PM
Location: Chapin Theater, Orange County Convention Center
BIOGRAPHY
Steven A. Benner is a Distinguished Fellow at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, which he founded following service on the faculty at Harvard University, the ETH Zurich, and the University of Florida. His research spans many fields in the physical sciences, information sciences, and natural history, more specifically in the emerging fields of Synthetic Biology, Paleogenetics, Evolutionary Bioinformatics, and Astrobiology. His laboratory invented several redesigned versions of DNA, evolution-based genome databases, some of the first compelling tools to predict protein folds, and models for the origin of life. His most recent book is entitled "Life, the Universe, and the Scientific Method."
Read more about Steven Benner at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution website
