Christopher Mason

Assistant Professor in Physiology and Biophysics, Institute for Computational Biology, Weill Cornell Medical College

Christopher E. Mason is Assistant Professor at Weill Cornell Medical College in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics and at the Institute for Computational Biomedicine. Professor Mason also holds appointments in the Tri-Institutional Program on Computational Biology and Medicine (Cornell, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Rockefeller University), and at the Weill Cornell Cancer Center, where he is the director of the Single Molecule Research Lab. He is a co-founder of the New York Synthetic Biology Association.

Participant In:

Synthetic and Systems Biology: Reinventing the Code of Life

Saturday, May 11th
2:30 - 4:30PM

Past Event

Synthetic biology, and its sister field systems biology, offers the means to reengineer DNA in ways (and at a pace) that Nature, in her evolutionary wisdom, never envisioned. Standing at the unique crossroads of biology, engineering, computer science and neuroscience, these emerging fields are working toward the development of novel drugs and energy sources, the… read more »