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How Life Works

A user's guide to the new biology

Fall 2024
Monday Morning
Moderator: John Armstrong

Details

PURPOSE:

The purpose of this seminar is to learn the current understanding of how living cells use the resources provided by DNA to carry out their vital processes and to discuss the implications of this knowledge.

DESCRIPTION:

This will be a “specialist-led” seminar, based on the recent book How Life Works by Phillip Ball, a former editor of the leading scientific journal Nature. The book is well written and uses no more technical jargon than is absolutely necessary, but is unavoidably dense

ROLE OF PARTICIPANTS: Participants will not make a presentation, but before each meeting will read assigned sections of the book How Life Works by Philip Ball and will be prepared to discuss the reading.
RESOURCES:

How Life Works, by Phillip Ball (University of Chicago Press), available on Amazon.

ABOUT THE MODERATOR: John Armstrong has moderated many seminars on Science and his scientific training to educate himself about modern biology.