Description:
The availability of the DNA sequence of the human genome has truly revolutionized biomedical research and is beginning to impact clinical care. Only about 5% of the 3 billion base pairs appear to be important, and finding and understanding these functional segments is one of the challenging problems that is being faced by biologists. Rick Myers, Ph.D., of the Stanford Human Genome Center examines how high-throughput genomic and genetic techniques are being applied towards identifying cis-acting transcriptional regulatory elements as well as the proteins that bind to them and control transcription.
Speaker(s):
Rick Myers, Ph.D., W. Ascherman Professor and Chairman, Department of Genetics; director, Stanford Human Genome Center
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