Tuesday, October 12, 2021

  • Lunch on the Coast - What’s a Beach Picnic Without Sand?

    Virtual

    A Lunch on the Coast virtual series talk brought to you by UCF Coastal and UCF College of Sciences. RSVP is required in order to receive the Zoom event link. Click here to RSVP. Speaker: Kelly Kibler, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering How multi-scale hydrodynamics are influenced by biota to shape coastal environments The best offense against flooding and …

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  • Synthetic Living Organisms: Heralds of a Revolution in Technology and Ethics

    Virtual

    This talk is part of Ethically Speaking: A UCF Interdisciplinary Series on Contemporary Moral Issues.  Progress at the intersection of biology, computer science and cognitive science is revealing the remarkable plasticity of living systems and their interoperability with technology. Synthetic bioengineering enables regenerative medicine, as well as the creation of entirely new living organisms, like "Xenobots." Advances in the field …

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