Conference: Harold Morowitz Symposium

会议：哈罗德·莫洛维茨研讨会

• 批准号: 1724627
• 负责人: David Smith
• 金额: $ 9.38万
• 依托单位: Santa Fe Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-08-15 至 2018-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1724627&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Harold; Morowitz; Symposium

The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) will host the Harold Morowitz Symposium in August 2017. This Symposium will honor the long career of a major figure in the origin of the fields of biophysics and genetics, who also played a significant role in science policy. The two-day Symposium will be divided into two separate sections: first an opportunity for personal recollections of Morowitz's contributions and influences on the participants and second, a focus on a selection of major areas where Morowitz started new fields or made major contributions: genetics, biophysics; and science policy. Morowitz was a leading figure in shaping not only the scientific but also the popular understanding of the geochemical origins of life on Earth. He was a good communicator of science at the popular level and his work resulted in many nontechnical articles and a permanent exhibit on the origin of life at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. The proposed Symposium will include participants from diverse community of fields, genders and career stages. The results of the event will be published in one of SFI's Intelligence Reports disseminated to a wide variety of readers including those in academia, business and the general publicMorowitz's early academic research and writing often dealt with thermodynamic themes and the pervasive roles of physical principles in biology. Increasingly throughout his career, he turned from searches for minimal life forms to more and more comprehensive attempts to frame the nature and origin of life. Starting in the late 1960s and continuing through the end of his life, Morowitz was a leading figure in shaping the scientific understanding of the geochemical origins of life on Earth. In particular, his writings played a significant role in elaborating one of two frameworks that has become important for understanding life's origins: known as "metabolism first", this view tries to anchor specific, universal features of biochemistry in geochemical constraints, as a precursor and foundation for the later information-dominated view termed the "RNA world".This project is jointly cofounded by the Molecular Biophysics Program in the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences and the Physics of Living System in the Division of Physics.

圣达菲研究所 (SFI) 将于 2017 年 8 月主办 Harold Morowitz 研讨会。该研讨会将纪念生物物理学和遗传学领域起源中一位重要人物的长期职业生涯，他也在科学政策中发挥了重要作用。为期两天的研讨会将分为两个独立的部分：首先是个人回忆莫洛维茨的贡献和对参与者的影响的机会，其次是重点关注莫洛维茨开创新领域或做出重大贡献的主要领域：遗传学、生物物理学；和科学政策。莫洛维茨不仅是科学界的领军人物，也是大众对地球生命地球化学起源的理解的领军人物。他是一位优秀的大众科学传播者，他的工作发表了许多非技术性文章，并在新墨西哥州自然历史和科学博物馆举办了关于生命起源的永久展览。拟议的研讨会将包括来自不同领域、性别和职业阶段的参与者。该活动的结果将发表在 SFI 的一份情报报告中，分发给包括学术界、商界和公众在内的广大读者莫洛维茨的早期学术研究和写作经常涉及热力学主题以及物理原理在生物学中的普遍作用。在他的整个职业生涯中，他逐渐从寻找最小的生命形式转向越来越全面地尝试构建生命的本质和起源。从 20 世纪 60 年代末开始，一直到他生命的尽头，莫洛维茨一直是塑造对地球生命地球化学起源的科学理解的领军人物。特别是，他的著作在阐述对于理解生命起源非常重要的两个框架之一方面发挥了重要作用：被称为“新陈代谢第一”，这种观点试图将生物化学的特定、普遍特征锚定在地球化学约束中，作为前体和为后来的信息主导的“RNA世界”观点奠定了基础。该项目由分子与细胞生物科学部和生命系统物理学部的分子生物物理学项目共同创立物理系。