Craig Venter was the first person to have his genome sequenced. Recently he and his colleagues at the J. Craig Venter Institute created a synthetic organism that could be a key to the foods and fuels of the future.  Dr. Venter speaks about synthetic life and about a project to map the diversity of the microbial world. His lecture back in May was the inaugural Wall Exchange, a new public lecture series in Vancouver presented by the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies in the University of British Columbia, co-sponsored by Genome BC.

The talk will air Wednesday Sept 21st, at 9pm PST on CBC Radio 1. Click here for the online feed or tune your radio to 690AM.

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