Events: June 2010

Wyss invited lecturer, Jeff Hasty will describe an engineered genetic oscillator in Escherichia coli that is fast, robust, and persistent, with tunable oscillatory periods as fast as 13 minutes.  He will then describe an engineered network with global intercellular coupling that is capable of generating synchronized oscillations in a growing population of cells.

Wyss invited lecturer Fabien Guillemot from the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM) discusses the technology of Laser-Assisted Bioprinting.

Wyss Visiting Scholar and Engineering Professor Daniela Rus discusses the challenges of building brains and bodies to create mobile autonomous systems that can interact in new ways with the physical world.

Wyss Visiting Scholar, Noubar Afeyan of Flagship Ventures will use cases of recent and future start-ups (under development) to expose entrepreneurial innovation as well as innovative entrepreneurship in practice.

Wyss invited lecturer Bernhard Palsson from the University of California, San Diego will discuss meta-structures of bacterial genomes.