# Summary of #hplusroadmap IRC Log (June 25, 2016)

* Kanzure shared two cryptography papers: "How to backdoor Diffie-Hellman" and "Computational integrity with a public random string from quasi-linear PCPs" from the IACR eprint archive.

* A podcast featuring George Church discussing human genome synthesis was mentioned, along with news that Stephen Wolfram, George Church, Joel Dudley and Yaniv Erlich joined SolveBio's Board of Advisors.

* Kanzure provided an extensive collection of neuroscience and synthetic biology resources for a newcomer interested in transhumanism, including papers on optogenetics, brain interfaces, neural activity control, and whole brain emulation.

* Specific educational resources shared included "Primer for Synthetic Biology" and the "Brain Emulation Roadmap Report" among numerous technical papers on neural reconstruction, connectomics, and brain imaging techniques.

* The conversation highlighted the importance of "diving off the deep end" as a learning approach for biology and neuroscience, particularly for those interested in transhumanist topics.