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> Date: April 4, 2006 8:35:05 AM MDT
> Subject: [Activities-announce] SFI Public Lecture tomorrow
>
> Wednesday, April 5, 2006
> 7:30 PM at the James A Little Theater
>
> Christian de Duve, Nobel Laureate (Medicine 1974)
> Founder, International Institute of Cellular and Molecular Pathology;
> Professor Emeritus, University of Louvain and Rockefeller University
>
> with Eric Smith, SFI Professor
>
>
> The Origin of Life
>
> The origin of life is generally taken to be the outcome of
> progressive chemical complexification, This process presumably led
> from small organic molecules, such as amino acids, sugars, and
> nitrogenous bases, now known to be produced on a large scale by
> cosmic chemistry, to an organism called the LUCA, or last universal
> common ancestor, from which all known living organisms have been
> shown to be descendants. In spite of a considerable amount of high-
> level research, the nature of the chemistry used by the LUCA
> remains largely unknown. Consideration of the mechanism whereby
> early small-molecule chemistry may have changed into biochemistry
> suggests that life may have been launched by processes related to
> those used by cells today. If this is so, enzyme-like catalysts
> probably were involved. DeDuve will discuss the possibility that
> small peptides and other ?multimers? may have played catalytic
> roles in an era before large protein enzymes had formed, a view of
> the emergence of life that he has pioneered.
>
>
> Thursday, April 6, 2006
> 10:30 - 11:30 AM at SFI ? Noyce Conference Room
> Seminar by de Duve: Technical seminar on the chemistry and
> physiology of the emergence and evolution of life.
> 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.
>
> Friday, April 7, 2006
> 10:30 - 11:30 AM at SFI ? Noyce Conference Room
> Informal roundtable discussion with de Duve on major issues in the
> origin and evolution of life entitled "Singularities"
>
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