Biofuels and DNA sequencing: two sides of the same coin?

The National Institutes of Health have a goal of $1000 to sequence a human genome. Last year in Lima, Peru, 190 countries committed to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Maybe not intuitively, these two goals are tightly connected.

In the first part of the talk, I will discuss the basics of molecular biology, explaining how we currently understand genetic information. I will also discuss our current energy sources and some alternative, focusing on bioenergy. In the second part, I will connect these two areas, explaining how advances in molecular biology can contribute to the development of alternative energy.

Speaker: Nadav Sorek