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In the last talk of this year’s series, ӳ����ý research scientist will discuss the history of the enigmatic coelacanth and what its genome has taught us about our own evolution.

ӳ����ý core faculty member Feng Zhang has been selected as one of the first winners of the Bert L. and N. Kuggie Vallee Foundation Young Investigator Award. The award recognizes outstanding young scientists and provides discretionary funds for basic biomedical research.

It’s one of the great quandaries of the Information Age: as advances in digital technologies allow us to generate data at an ever-increasing pace, there is a concomitant need to find new ways to process and analyze the resulting deluge of information.

Midsummer Nights’ Science continues next week with the “Unweaving the circuitry of human disease,” the third lecture in this year’s series. ӳ����ý associate member Manolis Kellis will be speaking at the July 24 event, discussing current efforts to build high-resolution activity maps of gene and regulatory regions across hundreds of cell types. These maps are bringing the genome to life, revealing possible culprits in human disease, and exposing the circuitry likely responsible when the genome’s regulatory system goes wrong.

Update July 18: Check out a of the live tweets from this event.

In the second 2013 installment of Midsummer Night’s Science, our annual public lecture series, medical oncologist and ӳ����ý associate member Levi Garraway will explore how genomic technology is helping to reveal cancer’s long-held secrets, and the many ways those findings, both the expected and unexpected, are changing the lives of patients.