Yesterday saw the first in our series of talks being held on Second Nature. The speaker was Dr Phil Holliger from the Medical Research Council Molecular Biology Lab in Cambridge, and he gave a talk all about Ancient DNA and his work on creating new polymerases to recover it more accurately.

Picture by Troy McLuhan

The turnout was excellent, I reckon about 40 people were there for the whole talk and there were lots of questions at the end for Phil: I’ve posted the talk, the slides and the full discussion over at Nature Network

Thanks very much to Phil for being such a willing guinea pig in such a new project: after last night, I’m even more convinced that holding these events in Second Life is worthwhile, and I’m absolutely going to keep doing them and trying to make them better. If you were there, I’d love to hear your feeback – if not, don’t worry, you can come to the next one!

Yesterday saw the first in our series of talks being held on Second Nature. The speaker was Dr Phil Holliger from the Medical Research Council Molecular Biology Lab in Cambridge, and he gave a talk all about Ancient DNA and his work on creating new polymerases to recover it more accurately.

Picture by Troy McLuhan

The turnout was excellent, I reckon about 40 people were there for the whole talk and there were lots of questions at the end for Phil: I’ve posted the talk, the slides and the full discussion over at Nature Network

Thanks very much to Phil for being such a willing guinea pig in such a new project: after last night, I’m even more convinced that holding these events in Second Life is worthwhile, and I’m absolutely going to keep doing them and trying to make them better. If you were there, I’d love to hear your feeback – if not, don’t worry, you can come to the next one!