BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news486@chemie.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20230911T090718 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20231016T170000 SUMMARY:Resurrecting our Molecular Past. The Real Jurassic Parc (Camille & Henry Dreyfus Lecture) DESCRIPTION:Life and the Earth have co-evolved over the past four billion y ears to deliver a richly diverse biosphere that has been described by obse rvation of living systems in a planetary context. In a contrasting reducti onist research programme\, the last half-century of biological chemistry h as attached molecular structures to much of that diversity. The grand chal lenge now seeks to interconnect molecular structures to planetary biology in ways understandable to both natural historians and physical scientists. This talk will have fun exploring how resurrecting molecules from long ex tinct forms of life\, in the laboratory (not in Hollywood)\, can make thos e connections\, helping us understand where we came from\, how we evolved to adapt to our environments past\, and how we might explore the cosmos fo r life like us on other planets.\\r\\nCamille & Henry Dreyfus Lectureship In memory of the Dreyfus brothers\, the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundati on Inc. has established the Camille & Henry Dreyfus Lectureship at the Uni versity of Basel [https://chemie.unibas.ch/de/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/dr eyfus-lectureship/]. The annual Lectureship brings a leading chemist from the United States to the Basel campus to deliver a series of talks\, and t o meet with faculty and students in order to enhance the relationship betw een Swiss and U.S. science. X-ALT-DESC:

Life and the Earth have co-evolved over the past four billion years to deliver a richly diverse biosphere that has been described by ob servation of living systems in a planetary context. In a contrasting reduc tionist research programme\, the last half-century of biological chemistry has attached molecular structures to much of that diversity. The grand ch allenge now seeks to interconnect molecular structures to planetary biolog y in ways understandable to both natural historians and physical scientist s. This talk will have fun exploring how resurrecting molecules from long extinct forms of life\, in the laboratory (not in Hollywood)\, can make th ose connections\, helping us understand where we came from\, how we evolve d to adapt to our environments past\, and how we might explore the cosmos for life like us on other planets.

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Camille &\; Henry Dr eyfus Lectureship
In memory of the Dreyfus brothers\, the C amille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Inc. has established the Ca mille &\; Henry Dreyfus Lectureship at the University of Basel. The annual Lectureship brings a leading chemist from the United States to the Basel campus to deliver a series of talks\, and to meet with faculty and students in order to enhance the relationship between Swiss and U.S. scien ce.

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