The 31st Annual Murray L. Barr Lecture

Join us on Friday, October 18th, 2024, for the 31st Annual Murray L. Barr Lecture, featuring Nobel Prize Laureate Dr. Jack Szostak, who will be presenting on The Origin of Life: Not as Hard as it Looks.

Dr. Szostak is a University Professor and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Chicago, and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Dr. Szostak’s early research on telomere structure and function and the role of telomere maintenance in preventing cellular senescence was recognized by the 2006 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award and the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In the 1990s Dr. Szostak and his colleagues developed in vitro selection as a tool for the isolation of functional RNA, DNA and protein molecules from large pools of random sequences. Dr. Szostak’s current research interests are in the laboratory synthesis of self-replicating systems and the origins of life.

Agenda:
8:45-9:00 am: Meet and Greet
9:00-9:30 am: Remarks
9:30-10:30 am: Lecture
10:30-10:45 am: Q&A
10:45-10:50 am: Closing Remarks.