Special Seminar by Joe Davis, Artist-Scientist, Harvard Medical School

Joe Davis is an Artist-Scientist in the George Church laboratory at Harvard Medical School, a position he has held since 2010. In this special lecture, "Landscape Painting for Beginners: DNA Information-Keeping and Nonlinear Encoding," Davis envisions a next-generation strategy for creating a durable archive of human culture and civilization. Davis's pioneering projects involving "DNA programming languages" for inserting poetic texts and graphics into DNA have frequently been cited in the scientific literature and include "Microvenus," the first genetically engineered work of art (1986). This lecture is free and open to the public.

Venue details: Marine Biological Laboratory, 10 MBL Street, Speck Auditorium, Rowe Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 02543-1015, United States

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