Book Launch with Ben Mezrich and George Church
The Arts and Science came together on this beautiful afternoon in Bristol, Rhode Island as attendees were treated to a mezmerizing talk by Ben Mezrich on why he became writer and how the groundbreaking experiments of Dr. George Church inspired his latest novel, Woolly.
Ben Mezrich
With a writing career spanning 19 years, Mezrich has authored eighteen books, with a combined printing of over 4 million copies, including the wildly successful Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions and The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal, which was adapted into the movie The Social Network –written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by David Fincher. Mezrich is the only non-fiction author to have two number one box office movie adaptations.
George Church
Professor at Harvard & MIT, co-author of 425 papers, 95 patent publications & the book Regenesis, developed methods used for the first genome sequence (1994) & million-fold cost reductions since (via NGS and nanopores), plus barcoding, DNA assembly from chips, genome editing, writing & recoding. He co-initiated the BRAIN Initiative (2011) & Genome Projects (1984, 2005) to provide & interpret the world's only open-access personal precision medicine datasets.
Ben and George answered questions from the audience which sparked lively conversation on topics ranging from how movies are made to genetic editing!
Photos by Russ Mezikofsky
