[Baps] Origins of Life - Science Symposium on March 7, 2008

[Sarah Stewart-Mukhopadhyay]

 Origins of Life: The Earth, the Solar System, and Beyond

Cosponsored by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Origins of
Life Initiative, Harvard University

*Friday, March 7, 2008
9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
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*Radcliffe Gymnasium
10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard
Cambridge, Massachusetts*

Admission is free, and registration is required.

*Click here to register<http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB227BGXN7WBE>
*.

Of all the questions scientists might ask about life, none is more basic or
challenging than how life emerges in the first place. Modern research
suggests that life results from planetary processes, but there are still
many unknowns. Which processes were critical to the beginning of life? What
environments support these processes? Recent advances in the understanding
of planets and moons in our solar system and the discovery of extrasolar
planets may lead to research and space missions that help answer these
questions. This symposium will convene leading biologists, chemists, and
planetary scientists to explore pathbreaking information about planetary
processes and the possibility that the origin of life is grounded in them.
SPEAKERS

*Donna G. Blackmond*, professor of chemistry and of chemical engineering,
Imperial College London

*David Catling*, European Union Marie Curie Chair, University of Bristol

*Gerald F. Joyce*, professor of chemistry and molecular biology, The Scripps
Research Institute

*Scott M. McLennan*, professor of geochemistry, State University of New York
at Stony Brook

*Martin Schoonen*, professor of geochemistry, State University of New York
at Stony Brook

*Sara Seager*, Ellen Swallow Richards Associate Professor of Planetary
Science and associate professor of physics, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology

*Lucy M. Ziurys*, professor of astronomy and chemistry, University of
Arizona

FACULTY PLANNING COMMITTEE

*Barbara J. Grosz*, interim dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced
Study and Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences, Harvard University

*Andrew H. Knoll*, Fisher Professor of Natural History and professor of
earth and planetary sciences, Harvard University

*Ann Pearson*, Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary
Sciences, Harvard University

*Dimitar Sasselov*, professor of astronomy and director, Origins of Life
Initiative, Harvard University

*Maria Zuber*, E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics and head of the
department of earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology

This event is supported by the Marjorie Cabot de Enriquez Fund.

For more information, visit www.radcliffe.edu or call 617-495-8600.

*The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University is a
scholarly community where individuals pursue advanced work across a wide
range of academic disciplines, professions, and creative arts.  Within this
broad purpose, the Institute sustains a continuing commitment to the study
of women, gender, and society.*
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