Breakfast at the Barracks – Season 2, Episode 23 – Video

Posted: January 8, 2013 at 6:46 am

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Breakfast at the Barracks - Season 2, Episode 23
Desmond Lun, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Computer Science and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology Desmond Lun is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and a member of the Center for Computational and Integrative Biology at Rutgers University. Prior to his present position, he was an Associate Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics and Director of the Phenomics and Bioinformatics Research Centre at the University of South Australia. From 2006 to 2008, he was a Computational Biologist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and a Research Fellow in Genetics at Harvard Medical School. He received bachelor #39;s degrees in mathematics and computer engineering from the University of Melbourne, Australia in 2001, and SM and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT in 2002 and 2006, respectively. His research interests are in synthetic biology, systems biology, biological signal processing, and network science. He is co-author, with Tracey Ho, of Network Coding: An Introduction(Cambridge University Press, 2008). Lun is researching how to alter the genetic makeup of E. coli to produce biodiesel fuel derived from fatty acids. Creating renewable energy by making fuels, like making ethanol out of corn, has been a common practice in trying to achieve sustainability. Lun is collaborating with researchers from Harvard University on his E. coli project. He teaches computational and integrative ...

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