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Our Foundation
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Welcome to the
Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution
The last half century of medical research has placed chemical
structures behind much of biology, including human disease, the human
genome, and the origin of life. Scientists at the Foundation have
contributed broadly to these activities through innovative and
polydisciplinary research in fields as diverse as chemistry,
informatics, biology, geology, and astronomy. We are now taking the
next steps, to place biological chemistry within its larger "systems"
context, from the cell to the organism, and from there to the
ecosystem and the planet. Emerging from this are new tools for systems
biology and personalized medicine, as well as answers to some "big"
questions: Where did we come from? What is our future? Are we alone?
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Latest News and Events
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• June 1, 2008.
Steven Benner, Distinguished Fellow at the FfAME, will join the discussion on the "Universal Laws of Life" in the World Science Festival on June 1 in New York City. This week long program includes actor Alan Alda and PBS's Brian Greene, and will make many of the most exciting themes in science accessible to the public.
• April 25, 2008.
Steven Benner, Distinguished Fellow at the FfAME, gave a plenary lecture at the Astrobiology Science Conference in Santa Clara last week, on the origin of life and the possibility of alien life in environments quite different from Earth. See commentary.
• February 7, 2008.
FfAME scientists, in collaboration with the University of Florida and DNA2.0, have concluded that 3.5 billion years ago life lived in a hot environment of 165° F (75° C), and gradually cooled to 100° F (40° C) by 500 million years ago. The study, published today in Nature, reconstructed ancient bacterial genes that serve as ancient thermometers. The findings are nearly identical to geological studies that estimate ancient ocean temperatures over the same time period.
• January 23, 2008.
Dr. Steven Benner, Distinguished Fellow at the FfAME, will speak on the "Scientific Method" in a public lecture sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences. The lecture will be at 8:00 in the evening at the Beckman Center on the campus of the University of California at Irvine.
• January 7, 2008.
FfAME scientists will make a multi-media presentation to residents of Oak Hammock at the University of Florida. Starting at 1:30 PM, the presentation is entitled: "The Origin of Life".
• December 1, 2007.
Dr. Steven Benner, Distinguished Fellow at the FfAME, will participate in the Space Science Symposium, Beckman Center, Irvine CA. This is one of the monthly events celebrating the second International Geophysical Year, on the 50th anniversary of the first IGY in 1957. The launch of Sputnik was the most the notable event of the IGY, and began the space age.
• October 4, 2007.
Dr. Steven Benner, Distinguished Fellow at the FfAME, will join three other panelists in a debate, open to the public, about the origin of life. The venue will be the third annual Lorne Trottier Public Science Symposium, held at McGill University in Montreal in the evening of October 4. The other panelists are Antonio Lazcano, noted expert on origins from the University of Mexico City, Robert Shapiro, author and professor emeritus at NYU, and Stuart Kauffman, mathematician and professor at the University of Calgary. Christopher McKay, astrobiologist and planetary explorer, will moderate. Work on the origins of life ongoing at the FfAME has been funded by the Astrobiology program at NASA. Click here for a primer on the debate topics.
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