The link between Earth and life histories

Beschreibung

Modern microbes play, and have been playing, crucial roles in all of Earth’s global geochemical cycles, contributing to global warming, influencing greenhouse gas emissions, fixing carbon and nitrogen from inorganic sources, and producing O2 for us to breathe. They have learned to use light, hydrogen, organic and inorganic forms of carbon-, nitrogen-, sulfur- compounds and transition metals, as electron donors and/ or electron acceptors to generate ATP.

From an evolutionary perspective, it is clear that all of the extant microbial diversity cannot have arisen at the same point in time, there had to be a sequence of events. Hence, through microbial evolution, stepwise transitions, from simpler to more complex energy harnessing solutions must have existed. This naturally brings us to one of the key questions of this talk: how can such events be ordered?

Zeitraum	12 Nov. 2024
Ereignistitel	The Royal Society: chance and propose in the evolution of the biospheres
Veranstaltungstyp	Konferenz
Ort	Bristol, Großbritannien / Vereinigtes KönigreichAuf Karte anzeigen
Bekanntheitsgrad	International