Home > Archives > Additional Archives > Schlick, Huang, Beard,   Tamar Schlick, Professor Jing Huang Daniel A. Beard, Department of Chemistry Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute New York, New York schlick@nyu.edu beard@efriedman.biomath.nyu.edu jingh@efriedman.biomath.nyu.edu   Consilience in the Biological Sciences: The Trajectory of One Fascinating Molecule, DNA, From Applied to Basic Research This is a wonderful time to work in the biomolecular sciences. Since Crick and Watson described the DNA double helix nearly fifty years ago, we have witnessed the birth of many new biological disciplines, such as cellular biology, molecular genetics, molecular biology, and genomics. This has led to tremendous developments in bioengineering and biotechnology, along with impressive advances in computational mathematics and computing technology. Just like the industrial revolution, these breakthroughs in science and technology have affected most aspects of our lives: from health, to criminal law, to social behavior. My talk will aim to convey some of the interdisciplinary excitement in the biomolecular sciences, starting from the applied aspects and returning to basic research, as exemplified in the study of DNA folding dynamics, important for interpreting fundamental biological functions like genome compaction, replication, and recombination.
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