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SUMMARY:Exploring Pathways from Chemistry to Complexity in Dynamic Environ
 ments - Skyla White (Cavendish Astrophysics)
DTSTART:20260203T111500Z
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CONTACT:Charles Walker
DESCRIPTION:Where and how did life arise? Modern metabolic networks are ex
 tremely complex\, yet they must have emerged from much simpler chemistry o
 perating in specific geological settings. Reconstructing this transition i
 s challenging\, since laboratory syntheses of metabolic building blocks ra
 rely capture the dynamic environments of real planetary systems. In this t
 alk\, I will describe what we currently know about the geological contexts
  that could have supported life’s emergence and the chemical pathways th
 at might have driven it. I will then introduce a kinetic framework for tes
 ting whether proposed prebiotic pathways remain viable under realistic geo
 chemical conditions. This approach provides a way to assess the plausibili
 ty of prebiotic reactions and to explore how environmental dynamics can fo
 ster chemical complexity\, offering insights into the earliest steps towar
 d life.\n\n
LOCATION:Coffee area\, Battcock Centre
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