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October 23, 2003
Gregory Stephanopoulos
Department of Chemical
Engineering MIT Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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"Metabolic Engineering in a Rapidly Changing World"
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Abstract
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Chemical & Metabolic engineering is a young field, just over ten years old. During this period, it has developed a well-defined methodology and a focused research portfolio of rich intellectual content and particular relevance to biotechnology and biological engineering. Now, it needs to adapt itself to rapid changes whereby we have instead of too few genes lots and lots of genes and, instead of a handful of measurements, avalanches of data. Although the focus (e.g. improving cells) and a central component (e.g. assessing cell physiology) of metabolic engineering remain the same, new tools are required to take advantage of these developments. Such tools will come from systems theory and multivariate analysis and will strengthen the integrating and quantifying aspects that have given this field its unique identity. In this talk we will review how metabolic engineering, as a field, helped crystallize these concepts along with the main challenges in aligning metabolic engineering with the goals and mind-frame of the new biology.
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Room: 1064 Duncan Hall . Time: 2:30 PM For more information contact: |
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