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2006-2007 Origins Chalk Talks Schedule

Harvard Origins of Life Initiative
"Chalk Talks"
9:00-10:00 am
BioLabs Room 2080
16 Divinity Avenue

Thursday, Nov. 2, 2006 - Mike Ranen "Barium Isotopes in Chondritic Meteorites: Implications for Planetary Reservoir Models"
Thursday, Dec. 7, 2006 - Cullen Blake "Searching for Extrasolar Planets"
Thursday, Feb. 1, 2007 - Paul Bracher " Cellular Ion Gradients: Biochemical Fossils from Early Life?"
Thursday, Mar. 1, 2007 - Raphael Bruckner "Prebiotic Materials Science: Protocell Division and Membrane Biophysics" 
Thursday, Apr. 5, 2007 - Jesse Chen "Towards a Self-Replicable Genome for Constructing a Protocell"
Thursday, May 3, 2007 - Itay Halevy "Effect of the early cycle of sulfur on the habitability of Mars and Earth"
Friday, May 25, 2007 - Diana Valencia "From Earth to Super-Earths and back"