ALife Boston
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Overview
ALife Boston is a friendly discussion group for artificial life, synthetic biology, digital evolution, molecular systems biology and other related disciplines. My thesis work blends these fields with quantum information processing. Many people in the Boston area have begun to synthesize new biomolecular systems, build useful quantum mechanical machines, or are interested in the philosophical, economic or social implications of such work. Our meetings should complement the Systems Biology Theory Lunch by emphasizing the possibilities of life as it could be rather than life as it is. Meetings are open to everyone and focus on current research. The seminar was originally founded by Carlo Maley, Geo Homsy and Erik Rauch as the MIT ALife group; it has been continued by Alexander (Sasha) Wait as ALife Boston. To get an idea of what was discussed in the past, you can browse the list of MIT ALife talks 1994-1998 or look at the topics below.
--Await 21:40, 25 Sep 2005 (EDT)
Announcements
- There is a new thread on the discussion page - please, join in or start your own thread!
- If you'd like notification of meetings, subscribe to the mailing list.
{please move old announcements to ALife announcements}
Upcoming talks
Fall 2005
- October 25, 2005. Lunch and discussion.
Noon at the Pho Pasteur in Harvard square.
If you can come, RSVP below:
- Alexander (Sasha) Wait
- Jeremy Zucker
- David Croll
- Brian Peltonen
- Adam Ierymenko
- Wikipedia:User:Sj
{I have made a reservation for six under the name "Sasha" - please be on-time.}
Previous talks
Fall 2004
- November 22, 2004. Nathan Walsh on Counting up to one with DNA.
- Decemeber 20, 2004. Alexander Wait on New ideas to fund ideas.
Winter 2004
- January 27, 2005. Irene Chen on Building protocells.
- February 11, 2005. Alexander Wait on Spacetime crystallography of a quantum mechanical biosphere.
Spring 2005
- June 8, 2005. Julie Norville on Building protein crystals by engineering methods.
- June 15, 2005. Aneil Mallavarapu on Little b, a language for building modular models of biology.
Summer 2005
- June 22, 2005. Farren Isaacs on Multiplex DNA synthesis and some applications.
- June 29, 2005. Joao Magalhaes on Molecular mechanisms of aging.
- July 6, 2005. Jay Shendure on DNA sequencing with polonies.
Fall 2005
- September 29, 2005. Lunch with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales.
