We have a a great visitor in town next week who will give a seminar sponsored by the Environmental and Water Resources Engineering (EWRE) program.
Jordan Peccia of Yale University will speak on Wednesday the 27th at 4 p.m. in ECJ 1.204 on Integrating Molecular Biology with Engineering.
ABSTRACT
"Although expedient, modeling complex biological systems using empirical data and a black box concept is not a robust approach for improving system performance. The advent of high-throughput molecular biology-based methods provides tools to better understand the mechanisms that underlie natural and engineered biological systems. In this seminar, I will present three examples of integrating engineering fundamentals with molecular tools to address problems associated with biological systems. They include: (i) metagenomics to determine the full diversity of, and infectious risk associated with viruses in wastewater, (ii) de novo transcriptomics of oleagenous microalgae to optimize growth conditions and suggest genetic engineering targets to improve biofuel precursor production, and (iii) fungal phylogenetics on house dust samples to determine how fungi are involved in the development of childhood asthma."
Jordan Peccia of Yale University will speak on Wednesday the 27th at 4 p.m. in ECJ 1.204 on Integrating Molecular Biology with Engineering.
ABSTRACT
"Although expedient, modeling complex biological systems using empirical data and a black box concept is not a robust approach for improving system performance. The advent of high-throughput molecular biology-based methods provides tools to better understand the mechanisms that underlie natural and engineered biological systems. In this seminar, I will present three examples of integrating engineering fundamentals with molecular tools to address problems associated with biological systems. They include: (i) metagenomics to determine the full diversity of, and infectious risk associated with viruses in wastewater, (ii) de novo transcriptomics of oleagenous microalgae to optimize growth conditions and suggest genetic engineering targets to improve biofuel precursor production, and (iii) fungal phylogenetics on house dust samples to determine how fungi are involved in the development of childhood asthma."