EASY SCIENCE CONFERENCE: We have your future under control... dream or nightmare?

 

Measuring, comparing, classifying and discovering. All modern experimental sciences rely on this simple combination. But any time we, scientists, change the way we measure things, we are also forced to change the way we think. New ideas often come from different research fields. We call this “interdisciplinarity. Neuroscience is a good example of this, where a lot of disciplines get together to solve puzzles and find answers.

At the same time, technology have reached a stage where almost everybody can afford to have a individuals-tracking device (from mice to humans), like your own smartphone. With these devices we can gather loads of data to the point of soon been able to model, analyze and compare behaviors like if they were simple phenotypes, like height and weight. The data produced by these devices can be compared to the amount produced in any genomics research.

Cedric Notredame is a senior group leader of the Comparative Bioinformatics group at the CRG. He will try to show how this can be turned in the most less invasive diagnostic tool mankind has ever had in its reach.
 

Speaker: Cedric Notredame, leader of the Comparative Bioinformatics group, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG)

Date: 19th June 2013

Time: 19:00 h

Place: Sala Cotxeres, Palau Robert. Passeig de Gràcia, 107 08008 Barcelona

Other useful information: Limited seating (130 people). The talk will be in English and there will be simultaneous translation service.