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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...

SEMINAR September 16, 2016

Exploring Prebiotically formed Dynamic Combinatorial Libraries

Speaker

Kuhan Chandru (ELSI)

Date

September 16, 2016

Time

11:00

Room

ELSI-2 Building - 104 ELSI Lounge

While screening a large set of potentially oligomerisable and prebiotically plausible molecules for their ability to ol...

SEMINAR September 15, 2016

The life of lower mantle minerals

Speaker

Sergey Lobanov (Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution, US)

Date

September 15, 2016

Time

15:30

Room

ELSI-1 Building - 102 ELSI Hall

The lower mantle is far removed from us; yet, it governs Earth's major geological processes that are vital for organic l...