2020 Vision: Creating the individual
A special presentation for Research Week.
Free admission, bookings essential (telephone 3365 3367)
Venue: The James & Mary Emelia Mayne Centre, St Lucia campus
Biological software
Professor John Mattick
Co-director, Institute for Molecular Bioscience
Inherited DNA encodes the software which drives individual growth and development. It holds the key to characteristics (such as behaviour and intelligence) which distinguish one individual from another. Complete knowledge and understanding are decades away; but by the year 2020, computational analysis plus modelling of genomic information and cellular differentiation may have transformed our ideas about information systems. This could lead to new and exciting applications in both biological and non-biological areas.
The plastic brain
Professor Perry Bartlett
Foundation Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, School of Biomedical Sciences
The brain?s ability to change continually in response to the environment (plasticity) creates individual perspectives. By 2020 we may understand some of the mechanisms ? such as how new nerve cells are created and how new connections form between nerve cells in response to environmental cues. This knowledge may affect ways of structuring the environment to promote healthy and creative neural function. It may also lead to new drugs which can help repair damaged or diseased brains and retard the ageing process.
Free admission, bookings essential (telephone 3365 3367)
Venue: The James & Mary Emelia Mayne Centre, St Lucia campus
Biological software
Professor John Mattick
Co-director, Institute for Molecular Bioscience
Inherited DNA encodes the software which drives individual growth and development. It holds the key to characteristics (such as behaviour and intelligence) which distinguish one individual from another. Complete knowledge and understanding are decades away; but by the year 2020, computational analysis plus modelling of genomic information and cellular differentiation may have transformed our ideas about information systems. This could lead to new and exciting applications in both biological and non-biological areas.
The plastic brain
Professor Perry Bartlett
Foundation Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, School of Biomedical Sciences
The brain?s ability to change continually in response to the environment (plasticity) creates individual perspectives. By 2020 we may understand some of the mechanisms ? such as how new nerve cells are created and how new connections form between nerve cells in response to environmental cues. This knowledge may affect ways of structuring the environment to promote healthy and creative neural function. It may also lead to new drugs which can help repair damaged or diseased brains and retard the ageing process.
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