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Future Friday
March 1, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
A series of community conversations with science and futurist thought leaders
Begun in 2011, the Future Fridays Lecture Series is an evening lecture series that runs in the Fall and Spring and features talks by prominent leaders, authors, and innovators.
The lectures are open to Chabot’s Stellar Society corporate and community members. Additional guests are welcome based on availability.
The Future Fridays Series is generously underwritten by Rudney Associates.
Please contact development@chabotspace.org for more details.
March 1, 2019
6pm-7:30pm
$5 Ticket includes admission to First Friday.
Speaker: Sarah Richardson, Synthetic Biologist.
Title of talk: How to Win Friends and Influence Bacteria: The Science Behind Biomanufacturing.
A computational and molecular biologist, Dr. Richardson specializes in the design of genomes. Dr. Richardson earned her B.S. in Biology at the University of Maryland College Park; with the support of a prestigious DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship she earned a Ph.D. in Human Genetics and Molecular Biology from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. As a Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow of Genomics at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory she worked on massive scale synthetic biology projects and the integration of computational genomics with experimental genomics. In 2015, she was named a SynBio LEAP Fellow, based on her “leadership potential and vision for shaping a future in biotechnology.” In 2015 she was also one of five promising young female scientists to receive a postdoctoral fellowship award from L’Oréal USA; she proposed to study CRISPR systems and the domestication of non-model bacteria. http://www.microbyre.com/team/
