Upcoming Lectures
Lectures run fortnightly from October to March
Wednesday evenings, 7.30pm
The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
Professor Nick Lane
Nick Lane is Professor of Evolutionary Biochemistry and Director of the UCL Centre for Life’s Origins and Evolution (CLOE) at University College London. His research is on how energy flow has shaped the trajectory of evolution from the origin of life to the evolution of complex eukaryotic cells and the emergence of traits such as sex, ageing and even consciousness. Nick has published more than 130 papers in leading journals including Nature, Cell and Science, and written five celebrated books which have been translated into 30 languages. He was awarded the Royal Society Science Book Prize for Life Ascending in 2010 and the Michael Faraday Prize for excellence in communicating science to UK audiences in 2016.Bill Gates called The Vital Question “an amazing inquiry into the origins of life”.
