Astrobiology

Chemical evolution - proteins or RNA first?

Name: Chemical evolution - proteins or RNA first?
Start: 2007-05-04T16:00:00+02:00
End: 2007-05-04T17:00:00+02:00
Location: No location set

by Horst Rauchfuss (University of Dortmund, now in Varberg, Sweden)

Friday 4 May 2007, 16:00 → 17:00 Europe/Stockholm

Nordita Seminar Room

Description

The important question wheather information molecules (like RNA or similar compounds) or operational molecules (like proteins) were first in the "origin of life process" is not resolved. Theories and experiments concerning the "protein-first-problem" will be discussed.