Jean Peccoud, from the Synthetic Biology group at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA,
will give a talk entitled “Cyber-infrastructures for genetic design automation” next Friday February 3 at 12h, at the Marie Curie room at the PRBB. He has been invited by Mark Isalan (CRG).

Peccoud combines experimental and computational efforts to understand how regulatory networks are encoded in genomic sequences by approaching DNA as a programming language. He uses transdisciplinary research, at the interface between biology, computer science, and physics, with the hope it will lead to the development of synthetic viruses engineered to prevent infectious diseases and cancer.