The Future of Synthetic Biology

Computer Society and GBC/ACM

George Church

Professor of Genetics, & Health Sciences & Technology of Harvard & MIT (HST)

Director of HMS NHGRI-Center of Excellence in Genomic Science

Director of the Personal Genome Project

Broad Institute & Wyss Harvard Inst. of Biologically Inspired Engineering

George Church is Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is Director of the U.S. Department of Energy Center on Bioenergy at Harvard and MIT and Director of the National Institutes of Health Center of Excellence in Genomic Science at Harvard.

George is widely recognized for his innovative contributions to genomic science and his many pioneering contributions to chemistry and biomedicine. In 1984, he developed the first direct genomic sequencing method, which resulted in the first commercial genome sequence (the human pathogen, H. pylori). He helped initiate the Human Genome Project in 1984 and the Personal Genome Project in 2005. George invented the broadly applied concepts of molecular multiplexing and tags, homologous recombination methods, and array DNA synthesizers.

George is also the co-author of “Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves”. More information is online at http://www.amazon.com/dp/0465021751.

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