Seminar announcement: “Emerging Biothreats: Securing the Digital Dimension”
THE MONTEREY INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
AND
THE JAMES MARTIN CENTER FOR NONPROLIFERATION STUDIES
PRESENT
A Seminar
“Emerging Biothreats: Securing the Digital Dimension”
Speaker
Laura Adam, Ph.D.
Laura Adam is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. Her presentation will offer a constructivist view of the biothreat as three “waves” of developments. The first corresponds to past documented uses of biological weapons and offensive research. The second is the invention and rapid improvement of genetic engineering techniques which have dramatically modified our conceptions of the biothreat over the past 15 years. Understanding these combined changes as a paradigm shift in the life sciences – that is, organisms can now be modified from the inside – Ms. Adam is proposing a third wave: the digital. This presentation will show how we have set the stage for new biothreats based on manipulations of bio-data and algorithms we now rely on.
Thursday, August 14, 2014
12:15 PM – 2:00 PM
CNS Building (Videoconference Room)
499 Van Buren St.
Monterey (831) 647-4154
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