Lecture by Roy Tsesana: “De-Extinction: On the Future of Extinct Species”

In this lecture, we will examine attempts to bring back the mammoth and other extinct animals, understand how the technology works and its scientific, ecological, and ethical significance. Finally, we will see how these technologies may help preserve species, advance medicine, and improve human life in the future. For adults and teenagers (15+).

Until just over a hundred years ago, enormous flocks of passenger pigeons filled the skies of America. Within a few decades, humans had driven them to complete extinction, along with species such as the dodo, the Falkland Islands wolf, and the woolly mammoth.

In recent years, technologies have been developing that make it possible to attempt to bring extinct species back to life. In the lecture, we will review efforts to revive the mammoth and other animals, understand how the technology works and the scientific, ecological, and ethical considerations behind it, and examine how successful it really is. Finally, we will explore how these technologies may one day be used not only to restore extinct species, but also to preserve endangered species, advance medicine, and improve human life.

Lecturer: Roi Tzizna, PhD in nanotechnology and an Israeli futurist researcher at the Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center at Tel Aviv University.

The lecture is intended for adults (16+).

Participation is free of charge but requires advance registration.

18:30 Gathering and tour

19:00 Lecture, questions, and mingling

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Makelab phone: 03-545265