from meetup: (see the hexaflexagon at http://youtu.be/dES-ozV65u4?t=5m38s)
CafeSci Boston - “Studying Genomic Origami"
Tuesday, February 17, 20157:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Cafe Artscience
650 Kendall St, Cambridge, MA (map)
Lecture is in hall inside the Cafe Artscience restaurant. (Not in the gallery on the left.)
“Studying Genomic Origami"
with Miriam Huntley
Le Laboratoire Cambridge 650 East Kendall Street Cambridge, MA 02142 How is it that every cell inside our body has the exact same DNA, and yet an eye cell performs a very different function from a blood cell? It turns out that different cells fold up their DNA in different ways, much in the same way an origami artist will fold up the same piece of paper in different ways in order to create different shapes. I'll talk about some of our recent work done in the Aiden Lab which sheds light on the exciting mystery of how the genome folds. Miriam Huntley is a doctoral student at Harvard University's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. View the Aiden Lab's unique video explaining their research here
