HPH NOW, February 3, 2006, Princeton's David Botstein Describes New Biology for New Age of Computers

David Botstein

Knowledge of the sequence of an organism's entire complement of genes, along with the use of computers and other sophisticated tools to integrate large amounts of biological information, now allow for a far more complete and enriched study of biology previously impossible in a "pre-genomic" universe, asserted Princeton Professor David Botstein in a Distinguished Lecture on January 12 in Snyder Auditorium. The talk was co-sponsored by the Division of Biological Sciences and the Office of the Dean.

"This new kind of biology is more quantitative, more mathematical, and more comprehensive," said Botstein, Anthony B. Evnin Professor of Genomics, and Director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University. "The aim is to understand how the parts fit together, because for the first time in the post-genome world, we can actually do very classic experiments and see what all the parts are doing."

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Watch a webcast of the lecture at http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/ddl