Transcript blue eyes....blond hair... - Imperial College Centre for Bioinformatics

....blue eyes....blond hair...
Instructions
Genes
DNA
What is made
Proteins
....blue eyes....blond hair...lungs…
Smoking messes up the
instructions and causes
lung cancer
• Everything is made up of atoms
• Atoms are round
• There are different types of atoms
– Oxygen
– Hydrogen
– Iron
If a tennis ball were magnified to the size of the earth
An atom would be magnified to the size of a tennis ball
A microscope uses light
But to see atoms we use X-rays
Instruction – gene or DNA
Blue eye colour - protein
Only the right key
will fit into the lock
We make a key that fits into the lock
but does not turn
We jam the way the germ works
We make a key that fits into the lock
but does not turn
We jam the way the germ works
My team use computers
to crack the code of biology
How the body has information telling
it what to make and what to do
How everything is made up of atoms
How the body uses shape as its code
How we use computer graphics to
look at atoms and make drugs.
....blue eyes..
• Mrs Ben Ze’ev for suggesting this partnership
• The Royal Society for providing funds
• Dr Suhail Islam (Imperial College) for the
movies
• My daughter for advice on what I should say
and how I should make the slides