Beauty of the genomes

Biology, Physics, Chemistry. 23/09/10

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This is a conversation with Manolis Kellis. He is a professor at MIT and head of the MIT Computational Biology Group. Here we talk about Manolis's journey to become an MIT professor, life as information, elements of genomes, human genome project, and current progress in understanding of human genomes.


About the guest

  • 00:00:00 Introduction

  • 00:01:30 Manolis's journey to become an MIT professor

  • 00:13:58 Life as an information

  • 00:28:30 Second law of thermodynamics and genomes

  • 00:36:20 Reading the information (genomes) in simple and complex organisms

  • 00:38:45 Human genome project and understanding of life

  • 00:48:09 Similarity between humans and chimpanzees

  • 00:56:09 What increase in genome complexity means?

  • 00:59:16 Junk DNA

  • 01:16:16 Future of research on genomes

  • 01:19:53 Looking at genomes through a different glass

  • 01:22:47 Synthetic life

  • 01:27:16 Artificial intelligence

  • 01:30:37 Biggest discovery of 21st century

  • 01:33:54 Beauty of the genomes

  • 01:36:51 Thank you!

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