2007-2008 Origins Forum Schedule 4:00 PM

September 19, 2007
Herbert Frey (Goddard Space Flight Center)
"A Late Heavy Bombardment on Mars"
Location: Biological Laboratories Lecture Hall
16 Divinity Avenue

October 17, 2007
Juan Perez-Mercader (Centro de Astrobiology, Spain)
"Life and the Evolution of the Universe"
Location: Biological Laboratories Lecture Hall
16 Divinity Avenue

November 14, 2007
Michael Meyer (University of Arizona/Steward Observatory)
"Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: The Makings of an Epicurean Feast"
Location: Biological Laboratories Lecture Hall
16 Divinity Avenue

December 12, 2007
Mitchell Sogin (Marine Biological Laboratory/Brown University)
"Microbial Population Structure of the World's Oceans: an Underexplored 'Rare Biosphere'"
Location: Biological Laboratories Lecture Hall
16 Divinity Avenue

January 17, 2008
John Sutherland (University of Manchester, UK)
"Prebiotic Chemistry in the Origins of Life"
Location: Harvard Ctr for the Environment Conference Room
24 Oxford Street

February 20, 2008
George Church (HMS)
"Overcoming Limits on Design and Evolution of Synthetic Life"
Location: Biological Laboratories Lecture Hall
16 Divinity Avenue

April 23, 2008
Albert Eschenmoser (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich)
"Searching for the Chemistry of Life's Origin: Hypotheses and Experiments"
Location: Biological Laboratories Lecture Hall
16 Divinity Avenue

May 14, 2008
Lynn Margulis (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
"Symbiogenesis and Gaia: Evolution of the Living Earth"
Location: Biological Laboratories Lecture Hall
16 Divinity Avenue

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