Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental SciencesCooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder
Distinguished Lecture Series: Shawn McGlynn
Friday January 24 2025 @ 3:00 pm
to 5:00 pm
January
24
Fri
2025
3:00 pm - 5:00 pmMST
Event Type
DLS
Availability
Open to Public
Audience
Location
CIRES Auditorium, Room 338
Host
CIRES
Moving electrons to grow: How life harvests energy and its early beginnings
Shawn McGlynn, CIRES visiting fellow
From molecular biology and DNA sequencing, we can now see that all organisms are related. In this talk, I’ll discuss another deep relationship shared between all organisms: the power source of life. Be it by pumps, splitting electron pairs, or breaking bonds, all life is unified in the broad act of moving electrons to grow. After giving an overview of these strategies, I’ll use them as inspiration for applied chemistry goals such as carbon dioxide fixation. I will also build on them to reflect on how life may have first begun and what its first power source might have been.
- Where: CIRES Auditorium, Room 338
- Reception to follow in CIRES Atrium
