2006-2007 Origins Forum Schedule 4:00 PM

September 20, 2006
Daniel Segrè (Boston University)
"Emergence and Evolution of Biochemical Organization on Early Earth"
Location: Biological Laboratories Lecture Hall
16 Divinity Avenue

October 18, 2006
Roger Summons (MIT)
"A Euxinic Ocean, Globally, Across the Permian Triassic Boundary: Hydrogen sulfide as the Agent of the Great Mass Extinction"
Location: Agassiz Room ­ Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford Street

November 15, 2006
John Valley (University of Wisconsin)
"The First Billion Years on Earth: When Did It Become Hospitable to Life?"
Location: Harvard Center for the Environment Conference Room
24 Oxford Street

December 20, 2006
Neville J. Woolf (University of Arizona)
"Looking for Life Without a Known Chemical Core"
Location: Biological Laboratories Lecture Hall
16 Divinity Avenue

February 21, 2007
George Cody (Carnegie Institution, Washington, DC)
"Mineral Mediated Reactions; a Constraint on Emergent Biochemistry?"
Location: Biological Laboratories Lecture Hall
16 Divinity Avenue

March 21, 2007
Ronald Breaker (Yale University)
"Riboswitches and the RNA World"
Location: Biological Laboratories Lecture Hall
16 Divinity Avenue

April 18, 2007
Irene Chen (Harvard Medical School & FAS Center for Systems Biology - June 2007)
"Physical Effects in the Prebiotic World"
Location: Biological Laboratories Lecture Hall
16 Divinity Avenue

May 8, 2007
Special Origins Seminar
Martin Nowak (Harvard University)
"From Prelife to Life: the Origin of Evolution"
Location: Biological Laboratories Lecture Hall
16 Divinity Avenue