Luogo: PovoZero, via Sommarive, 14 - Povo - Sala Seminari "-1"
Ore: 11:30

Relatore: 

• Luca Cardelli (University of Oxford)

Abstract:

leading to recent advances in our ability to structure our society and to
communicate in richer ways. They also allow us to orchestrate physical
forces, transforming and optimizing our manufacturing processes. What they
cannot do very well, is to interact directly with biological organisms or
in general orchestrate molecular arrangements. Thanks to biotechnology,
nucleic acids (DNA/RNA) are particularly effective 'user-programmable'
entities at the molecular scale. They can be directed to assemble
nano-scale structures, to produce physical forces, to act as sensors and
actuators, and to do general computation in between. We will be able to
interface this new class of devices with biological machinery, to detect
and cure diseases at the cellular level under program control. The theory
of computability directed the design of digital computers, and it can now
inform the development of new computational fabrics, at the molecular
level, that will eventually give us control of an entirely new domain of
reality.  

Referente: Ozan Kahramanoğulları e  Martin M. Hancyzc