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CANCELED - Saturday Engineering for Everyone: DNA-Based Data Storage

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
ECE Illinois
Location
ECEB 1002 (Grainger Auditorium)
Date
Apr 20, 2019   10:00 - 11:15 am  
Speaker
Professor Olgica Milenkovic | ECE Illinois
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Originating Calendar
Illinois ECE Saturday Engineering for Everyone

ANNOUNCEMENT: We are sorry to announce Saturday Engineering for Everyone scheduled for April 20 has been CANCELED. We look forward to rescheduling as soon as possible. Please let us know if you have further questions.

With the surge of massive data acquisition technologies, the problem of designing new durable, reliable and high-density data storage platform has become of paramount importance. Several recently proposed solutions have centered on the use of synthetic and naturally occurring macromolecules as storage media. In particular, DNA molecules - ubiquitous carriers of genetic information - have been identified as exceptional candidates for large-scale archival data storage. We report on one such DNA-based data storage architecture that uses native (i.e., naturally occurring) bacterial DNA isolated from E.coli as the storage media, and known and new nicking enzymes as data recorders. The system is reminiscent of by now long-forgotten punch cards, with DNA replacing the cards, and enzymes replacing punching devices. This is joint work with Kasra Tabatabei, Huimin Zhao, Nagendra Athrea, Jean-Pierre Leburton and Alvaro Hernandez, University of Illinois, UC.

Come at 9:30 to enjoy complimentary bagels and coffee before the presentation

Saturday Engineering for Everyone events are FREE and open to the public. No engineering experience is necessary.

To request disability-related accommodations for this event, contact Todd Sweet at 217-333-5943.

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