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DESCRIPTION:The Earth BioGenome Project: Convergence Science at the Nexus o
 f the Global Biodiversity and Climate Crises\n\nPresented by Dr. Harris Le
 win\n\nRegister & watch the webinar\n\n\nLife on Earth is in the midst of 
 global biodiversity crises\, with species disappearing at over 1\,000 time
 s the natural extinction rate. Extinction is irreversible\, eradicating ge
 netic diversity that has taken millions of years to evolve. This so-called
  6th Mass Extinction threatens vital ecosystems on which humans depend. It
  may not be possible to slow or halt biodiversity loss without a deeper un
 derstanding of the origins\, evolution\, adaptability\, and ecological fun
 ctions of diverse species. In addition\, the rapidly growing worldwide bio
 economy and emerging needs in pandemic responsiveness require broadening o
 ur understanding of life’s biodiversity. The Earth BioGenome Project (EBP)
  aims to sequence\, catalog\, and characterize the genomes of all of Earth
 ’s plant\, animal\, and other eukaryotic biodiversity. The ultimate aim is
  to use these genomes as a foundation for revealing the “rules of life\,” 
 i.e.\, how biological complexity arose\, the relationship between genotype
  and phenotype\, and how biological systems evolve under changing environm
 ental conditions. Accomplishing these goals requires convergence science t
 hat is coordinated at global scale. I will discuss the organization and st
 rategy employed by the EBP\, as well as early progress and the critical ch
 allenges ahead.\n\nWith a high-level panel of leaders in science\, technol
 ogy\, on-the-ground action\, investment\, and policy including Co-Chairs L
 aurette Dubé and Shawn Brown\n\n\nAbout the speaker\n\nHarris A. Lewin is 
 the Robert and Rosabel Osborne Endowed Chair and Distinguished Professor o
 f Evolution and Ecology and at the University of California\, Davis where 
 he also holds joint appointments in the School of Veterinary Medicine and 
 the John Muir Institute for the Environment. From 2011-2016\, he served as
  the UC Davis Vice Chancellor for Research. Prior to that he spent 27 year
 s at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\, where he held the E.
 W. and J.M. Gutgsell Endowed Professorship in Immunogenetics\, with a prim
 ary appointment in the Department of Animal Sciences and was a member of t
 he Center for Advanced Study. Lewin served as Director of the University o
 f Illinois Biotechnology Center\, Founding Director of the W.M. Keck Cente
 r for Comparative and Functional Genomics\, and Founding Director of the I
 nstitute for Genomic Biology. Lewin’s current research interest is in mamm
 alian genome evolution as it relates to adaptation\, speciation\, and the 
 origins of cancer. In 2017\, Lewin co-founded the Earth BioGenome Project 
 (EBP) and currently serves as the Chair of the EBP Working Group. He is a 
 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science\, and wa
 s elected as a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture 
 and Forestry. In 2011\, Lewin was awarded the Wolf Prize in Agriculture\, 
 and in 2013 he was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.\n\n\n
 About the series\n\nThe Precision Convergence series is launched to cataly
 ze unique synergy between\, on the one hand\, novel partnerships across sc
 iences\, sectors and jurisdictions around targeted domains of real-world s
 olutions\, and on the other hand\, a next generation convergence of AI wit
 h advanced research computing and other data and digital architectures suc
 h as PSC’s Bridges-2\, and supporting data sharing frameworks such as HuBM
 AP\, informing in a real time as possible the design\, deployment and moni
 toring of solutions for adaptive real-world behavior and context.\n\nThe P
 recision Convergence Webinar Series is co-hosted by The ���ϲ����� Centre for 
 the Convergence of Health and Economics (MCCHE) at ���ϲ����� University and T
 he Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center\, a joint computational research cente
 r between Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh.\n
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SUMMARY:Precision Convergence Webinar Series: November 16\, 2021
URL:/desautels/channels/event/precision-convergence-we
 binar-series-november-16-2021-334463
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