Upcoming Meetings, Center Speakers, and Conferences

• January 06-16, 2012:  Gordon Research Conference: Origin of Life
  Hotel Galvez, Galveston, TX

• April 16-20, 2012:  AbSciCon 2012: Exploring Life: Past, present, near and far
  Georgia Institute of Technology

Past Meetings, Center Speakers and Conferences

• July 03-08, 2011:  2011 ISSOL and Bioastronomy Jount International Conference
  Montpellier, France

• June 14-18, 2011:  Albany 2001: Conversation 17
  SUNY Albany

• April 01-02, 2011: 2011 Suddath Symposium "Ribosome Structure, Function and Evolution"
  Georgia Institute of Technology

• July 11-15, 2011: 2011 NASA Astrobiology Camp for High School Students
  Georgia Institute of Technology

• February, 26, 2011:
  Atlanta Science Tavern: Synthetic Biology - Creating a Bacterial Jurassic Park in the Laboratory
  7:00 pm, Manuel's Tavern (602 N. Highland Ave. NE, Atlanta, GA 30306)

• February 17, 2011:  Dr. Scott Strobel, Yale University
  Three views of RNA catalysis: Ribozymes, Ribosomes and Riboswitches
  Time: 3:00 pm, Location: G011 MoS&E

• January 20-21, 2011:
  RiboEvo hosts NAI Executive Committee Meeting

• November 08-10:
  NAI "Workshop Without Walls" on
  Molecular Pateontology and Resurrection: Rewinding the Tape of Life

• November 5, 2010
  Dr. Donald Burke, University of Missouri
  "Artificial genetics and metabolisms catalyzed by RNA"
  Time: 3:00 pm, Location: IBB 1128 (Suddath Room)

• November 02, 2010
  Dr. Terence Kee, University of Leeds
  On the Chemical Emergence of Phosphorus-driven Biochemistry
  Time: 4:00 pm, Location: MoS&E 3201A

• October 26, 2010
  Dr. Christine Dunham, Emory University
  "Translational regulation conferred by toxins"
  Tim: 3:00 pm, Location: MoS&E 3201A

• October 22, 2010
  Dr. Youshif Shamoo, Rice University
  "Evolutionary Fates within a Microbial Population:
  The Essential Role for Protein Folding during Natural Selection"
  Time: 4:00 pm, Location: MoS&E G011

• October 12, 2010
  Dr. Hyman Hartman, MIT
  "Three Clues to the Origin of Life"
  Time: 3:00 pm, Location: 3201A MoS&E

• October 05, 2010
  Dr. Irene Chen, Harvard University
  "Information in the Prebiotic World"
  Time: 3:00 pm, Location: 3201A MoS&E

• October 01, 2010
  Dr. Sergey Steinberg, University of Montreal
  "A Hierarchical Model for Evolution of Ribosomal RNA"
  Time: 4:00 pm, Location: 1128 IBB (Suddath Room)

• July 03-08, 2010
  ISSOL- The International Astrobiology Society and IAU C51 (Bioastronomy) Joint International Conference (Origins 2011), Montpellier, France:  http://www.origins2011.univ-montp2.fr/

• June 14-18, 2010
  AbGradCon, Tällberg, Sweden:  http://www.abgradcon2010.org/

• April 26-29, 2010
  Ribo-Evo members present at AbSciCon 2010, League City, Texas
  Abstracts for members

• March 29, 2010
  Dr. Kwaku Dayie, University of Maryland
  “Dynamics of RNA catalysts and ribo-regulators: Structure alone is not an adequate descriptor of function”
  Time: 1:00 pm,  Location: M&SE 3201A

• March 10, 2010
  Dr. Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy, The Scripps Research Institute
  “A Search for Structural Alternatives of RNA”
  Time: 3:00 pm, Location: M&SE 3201A

• March 5, 2010
  Dr. John W. Peters, Montana State University
  “The transition between a nonliving and living iron-sulfur world: The biochemistry of nitrogen fixation and hydrogen metabolism”
  Time: 3:00 pm,  Location: M&SE G011

• February 12, 2010
  Dr. Neil Dixon, The University Of Manchester
  “New riboswitch tools for orthogonal genetic regulation”
  Time: 3:00 pm, Location: M&SE G011

• January 10-15, 2010
  Ribo-Evo members attend
  Gordon Research Conference
  Galveston, Texas