Chemical Sciences | D5S14 34/35 Questions about the origin of life - George Whitesides

Celebrating the 70th birthday of the State of Israel
The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities cordially invites you to a conference on

The Grand Challenges in the Chemical Sciences

Sunday–Thursday, June 3–7, 2018

Organizing Committee: Prof. Raphael Levine (Chair),
Prof. Joshua Jortner, Prof. Dan Shechtman, Prof. Itamar Willner

Thursday, June 7, 2018
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Session 12 | System Chemistry

Chair
Yitzhak Apeloig, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Xiaoliang Sunney Xie, Harvard University
Single cell genomics: When stochasticity meets precision

James Heath, Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle
A molecular view of immuno-oncology

Session 13 | Imaging on the Molecular and Atomic Scale

Chair
Dan Shechtman, 2011 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry; IASH member; Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Knut Urban, Helmholtz Research Center, Juelich
Aberration-corrected electron microscopy: Probing physics and chemistry of matter in atomic dimensions

Wah Chiu, Stanford University
Cryo-EM, an imaging tool beyond crystallography

Shimon Weiss, Bar-Ilan University
Dynamic structural biology: Two decades of smFRET applied to transcription initiation

Session 14 | Chemistry of Life

Chair
Raphael Levine, IASH member; The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

William Schopf, University of California, Los Angeles
Earth's oldest fossils: Primordial life evolved early, far and fast

George Whitesides, Harvard University
Questions about the origin of life

Ada Yonath, 2009 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry; IASH member; Weizmann Institute of Science
The origin of life, or: What came first the genetic code or its products?

Closing
Nili Cohen, President, IASH

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"What is a self-assembly of a reaction" (14:40) compared to physical aggregation is an excellent and thought provoking question!