On Wednesday 15 January, Professor Martyn Amos, Manchester Metropolitan University, will give the talk 鈥淧opulation-based microbial computing鈥�
Location:听Building 53 Room 4025, Highfield Campus,
Time:听3-4pm (this is an hour earlier than usual).
Booking:听All CS4 talks are free and refreshments will be provided from 5pm. No registration is required.
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Abstract:
Synthetic biology is an emerging research field, in which engineering principles are applied to natural, living systems. A major goal of synthetic biology is to harness the inherent 鈥渂iological nanotechnology鈥� of living cells for the purposes of computation, production, or diagnosis. As the field evolves, it is gradually moving away from a single-cell approach (akin to using standalone computers) to a distributed, population-based approach (rather like using networks of connected machines). In this talk we present several recent results from our group, describing various aspects of this new form of biological engineering. Specifically, we show, using computational studies aligned with laboratory work, how reconfigurable logic devices may be constructed using bacteria, how these may be used as the basis for a 鈥渃lient-server鈥� model of microbial computing, and how bacterial conjugation may provide a new (and, potentially, very rich) communication scheme.
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