Craig Venter - Turns out this guy is a genius. I saw Craig first in the summer of 2000 when I snuck into a conference at NIH that I wasn't suppose to get into...the announcement that the Human Genome's first draft completion. What separates Venter from the rest of the field is his ability to bring lots of good people together to work on amazing projects. The biggest thing I think from todays talk was that his labs can reconstruct cassette genomes in yeast and then shuttle them into a "blank" bacteria and can get the genome to boot up in the cell. This type of technology will definitely allow for an industrial revolution at the cellular level
George Church - The reason they can't get this guy out of MIT half the time is because he is too busy making cool shit happen. Glad he came out to give us 45 minutes of his time.
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