#16 - Dr Wolfgang Busch - Getting to the Root of Roots

03/31/21 • 52 min

This week Dr Wolfgang Busch, from the Salk Institute, talks to us about the importance of root systems. Can roots make decisions? And if so could they be optimised for distinct functions?
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#15 - Dr Yoav Freund on Intelligence Amplification in Healthcare

AI is often described as a hugely exciting and media-friendly field in computer science, however, parts of it often forget the goals we are trying to achieve. Intelligence Amplification, or IA, is a more realistic goal, where computers are used for augmenting intelligence rather than replacing it. Dr Yoav Freund takes us through this fascinating field and outlines its possible applications in medicine specifically.

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Simons Institute future of ML panel: https://simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/agenda/3751/panelopen-problemspotlight-talks
Yoav Freund link: https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~yfreund/

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#17 - Professor Jim Collins on Synthetic Biology

Professor Jim Collins talks to us this week about his endeavours in biodetection using Synthetic riboregulators, which have played a significant role in Sars-Cov2 detection. He also brings us through CellNet, which applies network biology to stem cell engineering.
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