Date: 4 July 2005

Time: 6.30 pm

Venue: University Cultural Centre, NUS

Title: Molecular biology and Nanotechnology.

Abstract:

An increasing number of physical scientists and engineers are beginning to devote considerable attention to biological problems. As more physical and mechanistic understandings of biological systems emerge, we are beginning to develop a deeper, quantitative understanding of how biological systems work. With this understanding, we are beginning to appreciate the extraordinarily clever ways living systems have chosen to solve what can be thought of as essentially “engineering problems.” I will present examples of the engineering problems and solutions that life has chosen that range from how the ear works, how proteins are made, and the biological basis that forms the basis of nature-driven bio-engineering.