Dr. Stephen Turner
Founder and CTO, Pacific Biosciences of California
April 22, 2014 | 12:30 to 01:30 | 540 Cory Hall
Host: Ming Wu
Since the advent of the first single molecule detection technologies in the late 1980s, scientists and technologist dreamed of being able to sequence an individual molecule of DNA. This goal has been realized and commercially deployed by Pacific Biosciences of California. This talk will outline the foundational technology developments in nanophotonics and biochemistry on which the method is based, as well as some anecdotes about the multidisciplinary development effort to bring it to the marketplace. It will conclude with a discussion of some of the biological, medical and environmental breakthroughs that have been permitted because of this powerful sequencing method.
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