This informal discussion with Professor Douglas Densmore (Boston University) presents an opportunity for students and others to learn more about his experiences as a researcher of synthetic biological systems, and talk about challenges faced by underrepresented minorities in STEM fields.

Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP by Monday, 11/9 if you would like to attend: [email protected]

Later that evening, Professor Densmore will give a lecture titled, "Biology, Bugs and Bits: computing and programming with synthetic biology" as part of the Brown University Presidential Colloquium Series, Thinking Out Loud: Deciphering Mysteries of Our World and Beyond. For more information, visit: www.brown.edu/thinking-out-loud/

Douglas Densmore is a Kern Faculty Fellow, a Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science and Engineering Junior Faculty Fellow, and Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University. He is also the director of the Cross-disciplinary Integration of Design Automation Research (CIDAR) group at BU.