Kevin CostaWednesday, April 22, 2020, 8 am PDT
Pamela is a founding member of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School. Her work involves building synthetic cells that act as sensors, memory devices, bio-computers, producers of high-value commodities and energy from the sun, and novel subsystems such as proteins with designed properties for therapeutic use. Among her most recent innovations are bacteria that can sense and respond to gut inflammation. She also created the Bionic Leaf, which couples sunlight capture to bioproduction at an efficiency exceeding plants.
Pamela will share her thoughts on:
- What our response to the novel coronavirus reveals to her about science and technology
- What synthetic biology is doing well, and what work remains to be done
- How Pamela see the future of health, medicine, and industry
