TALK
Ever since the discovery of the DeoxyriboNucleic Acid (DNA) as the genetic material, it is widely understood that information and communications are at the basis of living organisms. Even the most simple and fundamental organisms, the biological cells, not only store, express, and propagate their genetic content to their offspring, but also incessantly receive and process information from the external environment, and modify their behavior accordingly. Despite the importance of information in understanding the mechanisms of life, the origin of diseases, and even attempting to forward-engineer biology, is information and communication theory, the mathematical science devoted to information and its propagation, currently utilized in biology at its full potential? The focus of this talk was in understanding how information in systems that include living organisms, both natural and engineered, can be measured and its propagation can be modeled through the lenses of information and communication theory, with highlights from systems and synthetic biology, electrochemistry, and bioinformatics. Novel research results were presented along with applications ranging from healthcare and disease control/diagnosis to future ubiquitous biocomputing, biosensing, and communication, i.e., the Internet of Bio-Nano Things.
WISDOM CORNER: LIVE LIFE LESSONS
Participants had the chance to hear from Professor Pierobon about his impactful life lessons over the years as well as his advice to young researchers in the field of information and communication technologies.
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SPEAKER:
Massimiliano Pierobon, Molecular and Biochemical Telecommunications (MBiTe) Lab,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Massimiliano Pierobon is an Associate Professor in the School of Computing, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), NE, USA, where he also holds a courtesy appointment at the Department of Biochemistry. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, in 2013. He is the co-Editor in Chief of Nano Communication Networks (Elsevier), and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. Selected honors: 2011 Georgia Tech BWN Lab Researcher of the Year Award, 2013 IEEE Communications Letters Exemplary Reviewer Award, UNL CSE Upper Ugrad and Graduate Level Teaching Award in 2016 and 2017, 2017 IEEE INFOCOM Best Paper Runner-up Award and ACM NanoCom Best Paper Award, and 2019-2020 UNL College of Engineering Excellence in Research Awards. Dr. Pierobon is the PI of multiple NSF and DoD projects and the co-organizer/chair of the NSF Workshop on Biology through Information, Communication & Coding Theory. His research interests are in molecular communication theory, nanonetworks, intra-body networks, information and communication theory applied to synthetic biology, and the Internet of Bio-Nano Things.
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MODERATOR: Ian F. Akyildiz, ITU J-FET Editor-in-Chief and Truva Inc., USA
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