The College of the Environment
Department of Earth and Space Sciences
&
the Mindlin Foundation
in partnership with the UW Astrobiology Program
invite you to attend the 2011 Mindlin Lecture
"The Origin of Life"
February 9, 2011
Kane Hall Room 120
6:30 - 7:30 PM
Lecture is free and open to the public. Seating is limited.
Please click here to RSVP
Hydrothermal vents sit at the evolutionary interface between geology and
microbiology, breathing new life into one of biology's most significant
questions: how did carbon dioxide, rocks and water transition into living
things?
Professor William Martin
of the University of Düsseldorf will share his vision of how life
on Earth likely originated in hot water gushing through fissures and
fractures in the ancient seafloor.
Read more on the science of hydrothermal vents here.
