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SUMMARY:Decoding human genomes on a population scale - Shankar Balasubrama
 nian
DTSTART:20141120T180000Z
DTEND:20141120T190000Z
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DESCRIPTION:One copy of the human genome comprises a code made up of an ar
 rangement of just over three billion units of the DNA bases (or '"letters"
 ) G\, C\, A and T. The Human Genome Project took many years and thousands 
 of instruments to decode the first human genome at a cost of several hundr
 ed million dollars. A human genome can now be decoded on a single instrume
 nt in one day for a thousand dollars.\n\nIn this lecture Professor Shankar
  Balasubramanian will discuss the history of DNA sequencing and a method f
 or rapidly decoding the genomes that originated in Cambridge in the 1990s.
  Professor Balasubramanian will also consider the impact of rapid genome s
 equencing on the life sciences\, medicine and society.\n\nShankar Balasubr
 amanian is the Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and a Senior
  Group Leader at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute. He co-invente
 d the leading method for decoding DNA that has made routine\, accurate\, l
 ow-cost sequencing of human genomes a reality. He was an undergraduate and
  postgraduate at Fitzwilliam College (1985-1991) and has been a Fellow of 
 Trinity College since 1994.\n\nThe lecture is free and open to all\, with 
 refreshments to follow. Please book your place at www.fitz.cam.ac.uk/found
 ationlecture
LOCATION:Auditorium\, Fitzwilliam College\, Cambridge
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