CHAIRED BY: Profa. Dra. Clarissa Ribeiro

The game of life: editing mimicking cloning computing
From recombinant production of therapeutic proteins for human diseases using transgenic and cloned organisms to artworks exploring superorganisms behavior and bacteria genome editing, the LASER talks Fortaleza invites for a conversation around the most diverse ways we are engineering nature.

Invited Speakers:

Kaio Tavares PhD (UNIFOR)
Coordinator of the Molecular and Development Biology Lab Experimental Biology Center (UNIFOR), PhD in  Biotechnology from the Biotechnology Northeast Network (Rede Nordeste de Biotecnologia, 2015) with a period as a visiting researcher at the Roslin Institute – Scotland. Master in Animal Science (2011) and a B.A. in Veterinary Medicine from the Santa Catarina State University (2008). He is currently a professor at the Graduate Program in Medical Sciences at the University of Fortaleza.

Fabiola Fonseca PhD (UFC)
Postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Culture and Art of the Federal University of Ceara (UFC), PhD in Education from the Federal University of Uberlandia with a period as a visiting researcher at the Harvard University supervised by George Church and Joe Davis, Master in Science Education and Mathematics and a B.A. in Biological Sciences from the Federal University of Goias (UFG).

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