Event Detail

Mon Sep 20, 2010
International House Auditorium
4–6 PM
Hitchcock Lectures
Sidney Altman (Yale)
Entering the RNA World

A general description of the problem of the origin of life on Earth with some detail about what we know now and our knowledge of RNase P, an enzyme with a catalytic RNA subunit.

This is the first of two lectures presented by Sidney Altman. The second lecture, Ribonuclease P: A Small Step in the RNA World, takes place on Tuesday, September 21, 2010.