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日  時： ２００６年４月１５日（土）1:30PM〜5:30PM
場  所： 早稲田大学理工学部６２Ｗ号館大会議室（１階）
         （地図：http://www.sci.waseda.ac.jp/campus-map/）
話　題：
＜前半：研究会 1:30PM〜3:30PM＞
　　１．研究報告（募集中！）
・小宮健「分子プログラミングに向けたヘアピン動作型分子マシンのシステム解析」
・木賀大介「iGEM（人工遺伝子回路構築の「ロボコン」）に参加してみませんか？」
・柚木克之（慶應義塾大学・榊原研）「OMICSデータに基づく転写制御ネットワークの動態シミュレーション」
　　２．事務連絡：最終年度の計画について

＜後半：特別講演会 4:00PM〜5:30PM＞
題  目： Injecting Life with Computers
講演者： Ehud Shapiro
         (Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics and
         Department of Biological Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of
         Science, Israel)
         http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~udi/bio.html

概  要：
Although electronic computers are the only "computer species" we are
accustomed to, the mathematical notion of a programmable computer has
nothing to do with wires and logic gates.  In fact, Alan Turing's
notional computer, which marked in 1936 the birth of modern computer
science and still stands at its heart, has greater similarity to natural
biomolecular machines such as the ribosome and polymerases than to
electronic computers.  Recently, a new "computer species" made of
biological molecules has emerged.  These simple molecular computers
inspired by the Turing machine, of which a trillion can fit into a
microliter, do not compete with electronic computers in solving complex
computational problems; their potential lies elsewhere.  Their molecular
scale and their ability to interact directly with the biochemical
environment in which they operate suggest that in the future they may be
the basis of a new kind of "smart drugs": molecular devices equipped
with the medical knowledge to perform disease diagnosis and therapy
inside the living body.  They would detect and diagnose molecular
disease symptoms and, when necessary, administer the requisite drug
molecules to the cell, tissue or organ in which they operate.  In the
talk we review this new research direction and report on preliminary
steps carried out in our lab towards realizing its vision.
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