1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,900 Next to me stands Peter Claes, a modern pioneer just like Vesalius. 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:08,500 Tell me, Peter; what makes you a modern pioneer? 3 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:11,400 I wouldn't compare myself to Vesalius to begin with 4 00:00:11,500 --> 00:00:16,800 but we did recently develop a quite revolutionary technique 5 00:00:16,900 --> 00:00:22,520 that is able to link our facial appearance – how we look like – with our underlying DNA. 6 00:00:22,620 --> 00:00:25,900 So imagine you find some DNA on a crime scene for example, 7 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:30,300 if you're an investigator, in the form of blood or hair or saliva 8 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:34,500 and you want to figure out how the person looks like that was at the scene. 9 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:39,200 We are able today to tell aspects about this person in terms of his face. 10 00:00:39,300 --> 00:00:42,320 We can show the face belonging to the DNA. 11 00:00:42,420 --> 00:00:44,400 Wow just like CSI on TV. 12 00:00:44,500 --> 00:00:49,927 That's true in a way. You find a lot of those shows these days on television 13 00:00:50,027 --> 00:00:53,800 and it’s quite interesting to note that these shows are not telling us the reality 14 00:00:53,900 --> 00:00:58,200 what we can do today, but they do give us a hint about the future, 15 00:00:58,300 --> 00:01:02,910 in the sense that they are using techniques during their investigations that people 16 00:01:03,010 --> 00:01:06,839 now at universities are investigating to solve. 17 00:01:06,939 --> 00:01:10,800 So for me it's a quite interesting outlet for people 18 00:01:10,900 --> 00:01:16,540 to know what it's all about and the nice thing also is they can see the societal value 19 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:20,885 of crime scene investigation because you're not helping a company becoming richer, 20 00:01:20,985 --> 00:01:24,532 but actually you're helping someone, a victim or a family of a victim, 21 00:01:24,632 --> 00:01:25,960 to find closure about what happened. 22 00:01:26,060 --> 00:01:29,200 So today, for your research, do you have to do dissections 23 00:01:29,300 --> 00:01:30,900 like they used to in this room? 24 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:34,400 No, I don't. Actually I'm an engineer and not an anatomist. 25 00:01:34,500 --> 00:01:39,400 I'm not a doctor, a medical doctor. So I can't even perform a dissection. 26 00:01:39,500 --> 00:01:42,800 Luckily for me, other engineers have developed technology 27 00:01:42,900 --> 00:01:47,300 that is able to image the anatomy of a person without having to dissect the person. 28 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:50,900 We have medical image scanners such as MRI and CT. 29 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:53,900 This scanning equipment allows us to visualise the anatomy 30 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:56,640 of a particular person, even a particular patient 31 00:01:56,740 --> 00:02:00,800 so we can be more specific towards a patient, in treatment planning for example. 32 00:02:00,900 --> 00:02:03,700 And thanks to these images we're actually able to investigate 33 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:08,100 the relation of the human anatomy on the one hand with other information on the other hand, 34 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:10,000 Which, in my case, is our DNA. 35 00:02:10,100 --> 00:02:14,200 So thanks to these images I'm able to investigate the correlation 36 00:02:14,300 --> 00:02:17,600 between DNA and the facial anatomy of humans. 37 00:02:17,700 --> 00:02:23,800 In the future we will also educate students in a different way 38 00:02:23,900 --> 00:02:28,400 by showing them a virtual human atlas which is again a virtual visualization, 39 00:02:28,500 --> 00:02:32,240 even in 3D, of the human anatomy from which they can learn 40 00:02:32,340 --> 00:02:36,600 so they don't have to dissect corpses any more. 41 00:02:36,700 --> 00:02:38,900 Thank you very much, Peter. That was fascinating. 42 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:41,370 The pleasure was all mine. Thank you.