Speaker:
Prof. David Sands, MSU Plant Pathology, Bozeman

Title:
“Biology Envy: Case Studies:"
Bacterial Magnets; Bacteria: can we listen to them?; Dial A Disease: Boolian Theory of Disease; Bacterial Economics: The Real Economics; Global Forming: Putting Feedback Systems Back In Place.

Abstract:
 It is like lifting up the hood of a Chevy truck for the first time, we can finally see how things work. The Chevy metaphorically is a cell. We have a list of all the parts and components of parts that a cell can make. We are figuring out how the genome, the instruction manual in a cell, seems to get translated into hardware, and by avoiding too much entropy, how it prioritizes and effects its options, how it begets, and how it lives. Now what do we do?

David Sands is a Professor of Plant Pathology at MSU, working on figuring out, how to use diseases to kill weeds, how to fix our agro-economy given what we know and will know about the human genome as an autonomous economic system quite disjunct from the monetary economic systems that tends to rule agriculture, and how our human/agricultural activities can effect things like rainfall or lack thereof.

Host:
Recep Avci