Origins Forum
May 16, 2012

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Matthew Powner
University College, London

"On the Chemical Origins of Nucleotides"

Origins Forum 2011 - 2012

All Origins Forums are held at

Geo Museum
24 Oxford Street, Haller Hall, Rm. 102, Cambridge, MA
4:00 - 5:00 PM
(unless otherwise noted)

Wednesday, September 21, 2011: Kevin J. Peterson (Dartmouth College), "microRNAs, Molecular Clocks and Metazoan Macroevolution"

Wednesday, October 19, 2011 - Cancelled

Wednesday, November 16, 2011: Stephen Mann (University of Bristol-UK), "New paradigms at the proto-life/synthetic biology interface"

Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - Cancelled

Wednesday, February 15, 2012: Paul Falkowski (Rutgers University), "How do bugs' gases alter planetary atmospheres?"

Wednesday, March 21, 2012: Ralph Milliken (University of Notre Dame), "Water Beyond Earth: A Remote Sensing Perspective"

Tuesday, April 17, 2012 @ 3:30 PM - Special Origins Seminar
John Grotzinger
(Caltech), "Going to Gale: The Search for Habitable Environments on Mars"
Note location: Phillips Auditorium, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street

Wednesday, April 18, 2012: Daniel Glavin (NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center), "Southpaw Solar System: L-Amino Acid Excesses in Meteorites and Implications for the Origin of Life"

Wednesday, May 16, 2012: Matthew Powner (University College, London), "On the Chemical Origins of Nucleotides"




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