ELSI Seminar

SEMINAR September 21, 2016

Planetesimal formation via fluffy dust aggregates

Speaker

Akimasa Kataoka (Heidelberg University, Germany)

Date

September 21, 2016

Time

15:30

Room

ELSI-1 Building - 102 ELSI Hall

We have revealed the overall porosity evolution from micron-sized dust grains to km-sized planetesimals: dust grains for...

SEMINAR September 21, 2016

Engineered Nucleoside/tide Kinases Synthesize the Nucleoside Triphosphates with Rearranged Watson-Crick Hydrogen Bonding Patterns....

Speaker

Mariko Matsuura (University of Florida, US)

Date

September 21, 2016

Time

11:00

Room

ELSI-1 Building - 102 ELSI Hall

Abstract One of the most ambitious long-term goals of synthetic biology is the construction of living cells whose core b...

SEMINAR September 20, 2016

Abiotic formation of condensed carbon from H2- and CO2-rich hydrothermal fluids: experimental and thermodynamic constraints

Speaker

Vincent Milesi (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France)

Date

September 20, 2016

Time

15:30

Room

ELSI-1 Building - 102 ELSI Hall

Studying the processes at the origin of "abiotic organic matter", i.e., of reduced carbon compounds produced without any...

SEMINAR September 20, 2016

Peptide-Assisted Nonenzymatic RNA Replication in Coacervate Droplets

Speaker

Tony Z. Jia (Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, US)

Date

September 20, 2016

Time

11:00

Room

ELSI-1 Building - 102 ELSI Hall

The nonenzymatic replication of RNA is thought to have been a critical aspect of the chemistry of the origin of life. On...

SEMINAR September 16, 2016

Geomicrobiological investigation of stromatolites to decode the history of early life on Earth

Speaker

Tomoyo Okumura (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science & Technology (JAMSTEC), Japan)

Date

September 16, 2016

Time

15:30

Room

ELSI-2 Building - 104 ELSI Lounge

Stromatolites (literally meaning "layered or bedded rock" in Greek) have been commonly and continuously observed, mainly...