{"id":313,"date":"2008-03-02T18:15:21","date_gmt":"2008-03-02T23:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/2008\/03\/02\/craig-venter-is-coming-to-town\/"},"modified":"2008-03-02T20:02:36","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T01:02:36","slug":"craig-venter-is-coming-to-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"Craig Venter is Coming to Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker for the 10th Higuchi Memorial Lecture Series at KU<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Craig Venter, Founder, Chairman and President, J. Craig Venter Institute will be in town Thursday, <strong>May 1, 2008.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">9:30 am &#8211;  \u201cGenomics: From Humans to the Environment\u201d<br \/>\nScientific Presentation &#8211; <\/font><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">130 Budig Hall <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">5:30 pm &#8211;  &#8220;A Genomic View of Life&#8221;<br \/>\nPublic Presentation &#8211; Woodruff Auditorium (Kansas Union)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">During this past year Craig Venter has publish his autobiography <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Life-Decoded-My-Genome\/dp\/0670063584\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1204498305&amp;sr=8-1\"><em>A Life Decoded: My Genome, My Life<\/em><\/a>.  It is a good read, and a different perspective on the sequencing of the human genome than you may have seen in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Nova-Cracking-Code-Life\/dp\/B00005O6O6\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=video&amp;qid=1204498685&amp;sr=1-1\"><em>Nova&#8217;s Cracking the Code of Life <\/em><\/a>or read in Nobel laureate John Sulston&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Common-Thread-Science-Politics-Ethics\/dp\/0309084091\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1204498564&amp;sr=1-2\"><em>The Common Thread<\/em><\/a> (a good read too).  <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">I hope to see you there, but if you can&#8217;t make it because you&#8217;re too busy celebrating with the workers of the world, you can view a recent lecture of Craig&#8217;s at Oxford, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.21school.ox.ac.uk\/video\/200710_venter.cfm\"><em>Genomics: From Humans to the Environment<\/em><\/a>, or view\/listen to interviews at <a href=\"http:\/\/bloggingheads.tv\/diavlogs\/398?in=&amp;out=\">bloggingheads.tv<\/a> or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/venter\">Guardian<\/a> (a number to choose from).<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker for the 10th Higuchi Memorial Lecture Series at KU Craig Venter, Founder, Chairman and President, J. Craig Venter Institute will be in town Thursday, May 1, 2008. 9:30 am &#8211; \u201cGenomics: From Humans to the Environment\u201d Scientific Presentation &#8211; 130 Budig Hall 5:30 pm &#8211; &#8220;A Genomic View of Life&#8221; Public Presentation &#8211; Woodruff<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=313\">+ Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"","_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kabt-news","tag-lecture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}