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#113 – Manolis Kellis: Human Genome and Evolutionary Dynamics
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Manolis Kellis is a professor at MIT and head of the MIT Computational Biology Group. He is interested in understanding the human genome from a computational, evolutionary, biological, and other cross-disciplinary perspectives.
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OUTLINE:
– Introduction
– Human genome
– Sources of knowledge
– Free will
– Simulation
– Biological and computing
– Genome-wide evolutionary signatures
– Evolution of COVID-19
– Are viruses intelligent?
– Humans vs viruses
– Engineered pandemics
– Immune system
– Placebo effect
– Human genome source code
– Mutation
– Deep learning
– Neuralink
– Language
– Meaning of life
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