Abstract

Every living cell contains a story written with a chemical alphabet in the form of a genome. It is a story that speaks of struggles, failures, injustices, grit and triumph, unbreakable alliances and shocking treason. To read these stories, we need to understand the most difficult grammar, but the payoff is a better understanding of ourselves and the diseases that plague us. At the limit of our abilities, genomes teach us how change is the only way to keep life.

Short Bio

From my training in classic biochemistry, I moved into bioinformatics as it became clear that our capabilities to read biological information were progressing beyond any reasonable rate. I participated in the sequencing of reference genomes for multiple species  of interest and then in the International Cancer Genome Consortium. Lately, my group has been researching about what happens with our genomes as we age.

What is an AIAS Seminar?

The AIAS Seminar Series is a session of seminars held by the AIAS fellows, AIAS Visiting or Tandem Fellows or by other speakers proposed by the fellows. In each seminar, a fellow will present and discuss her/his current research and work-in-progress to an interdisciplinary audience for 30 minutes, closing off with 30 minutes for questions, comments and discussion.

All seminars are in-person and held in English. To attend online, please contact Cecilie Horshauge at cecilie@aias.au.dk by 9:00am on the day of the seminar as the latest to request a link.