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SUMMARY:Evolution of life - ONE DAY MEETING - Organisers: Professor Ray Go
 ldstein FRS and Professor Simon Conway Morris FRS
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CONTACT:Beverley Larner
DESCRIPTION:A one-day interdisciplinary scientific meeting covering Evolut
 ion in its different aspects and its varied applications. OPEN TO ALL who 
 are interested.\n\nOrganisers: Professor Ray Goldstein FRS and Professor S
 imon Conway Morris FRS\n\nProgramme\n\nMorning sessions :\n\n9.00-10.00 Pr
 ofessor Steve Benner\, Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution\, Florid
 a\, USA - Evolutionary chemistry\n\n10.00-11.00 Professor Dieter Braun\, L
 udwig Maximilian University\, Munich\, Germany – Early molecular evoluti
 on in the lab\n\n11.00-11.30 Coffee break\n\n11.30-12.30 Professor Ros Ric
 kaby\, University of Oxford - Biogeochemistry\n\n12.30-1.30 Professor Dan 
 Rothman\, Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, Massachusetts\, USA - Co
 -evolution of life and the environment\n\n1.30-2.15 Lunch\n\nAfternoon ses
 sions :\n\n2.15-3.15 Professor Lynn Rothschild\, NASA Ames Research Centre
 \, California\, USA - Where synthetic biology meets ET\n\n3.15-4.15 Profes
 sor Filip Meysman\, Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research – Life a
 nd evolution in redox gradients: how bacteria discovered electricity way b
 efore Benjamin Franklin\n\n4.15-4.45 Tea Break\n\n4.45-5.45 Professor Will
 iam Ratcliff\, Georgia Tech\, Georgia\, USA - Experimental evolution of mu
 lticellularity\n\nA buffet lunch will be available at a cost of £5 in adv
 ance or £6.50 on the day. Numbers for the luncheon are limited and an adv
 ance purchase is recommended to guarantee a place. Please contact the Exec
 utive Secretary for a voucher.\n\nThe first 100 Fellows of the Society to 
 apply will be offered a complimentary luncheon voucher\n\n\n
LOCATION:Babbage Lecture Theatre - New Museums Site
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