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SUMMARY:A Biophysical Perspective on the Origin of Life
DESCRIPTION:
 Talk details\n
 •	Date: 13 November 2022\n
 •	Time: 
 1 p.m. (ET)\n
 •	Location: Zoom - register for 
 the event on the website\n
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 Abstract:  It 
 is widely accepted that biological change occurs 
 through natural processes by Darwinian 
 evolution. What's missing is an origins story, 
 of how Darwinian evolution might have first 
 arisen from physics and chemistry at the origins 
 of life 3.5 billion years ago. Such a story 
 is now emerging, based on the synthesis and 
 folding of short protein molecules that catalyze 
 the elongation of others. I will describe 
 these ideas, and how they address some of 
 the controversies in the field, including what 
 drives it, how it is an anti-thermodynamic 
 tendency away from-not towards-equilibrium, 
 and how it is self-serving and able to increase 
 complexity.\n
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 Bio:\n
 Ken Dill is the director 
 of the Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative 
 Biology at Stony Brook University and 
 the Louis and Beatrice Laufer Professor of 
 Physics and Chemistry. He received bachelor's 
 and master of science degrees from the Massachusetts 
 Institute of Technology in mechanical 
 engineering in 1971, a PhD in biology with 
 Bruno H. Zimm at the University of California, 
 San Diego, did postdoctoral research with 
 Paul J. Flory at Stanford University, and was 
 on the faculty of the University of California 
 San Francisco for 25 years.\n
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 His research 
 is at the intersection of statistical physics 
 with the biophysics of proteins and cells. 
 He has worked on the physics of protein folding, 
 computational structural biology, proteostasis 
 in the cell, and on foundational problems 
 in nonequilibrium statistical physics.\n
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 Dill 
 is a past president of the Biophysical 
 Society and a co-author of two textbooks. He 
 received the Hans Neurath Award from the Protein 
 Society, the Max Delbruck Award from the 
 American Physical Society, and the Sackler Prize 
 in Biophysics. Dill is a member of the U.S. 
 National Academy of Sciences and the American 
 Academy of Arts and Sciences.\n
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 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: public\n
 Contact name: Bob Patterer\n
 Contact email: events@frib.msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 https://frib.msu.edu/gateway/events/talk-ken-dill.html 
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LOCATION:Zoom - Facility for Rare Isotope Beams
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