Event
‘Deriving the absolute photosynthetic efficiency in the world’s oceans’
Friday 5 July 2024
The School of Life Sciences Peter Garland Lecture 2024 by Professor Paul Falkowski Bennett L. Smith Chair in Business and Natural Resources Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
University of Dundee
Dow Street
Dundee DD1 5HL
Host: Professor Claire Halpin
Venue: MSI Large Lecture Theatre, SLS
The talk will be following by refreshments from 1pm, to which everyone is invited in the CTIR ‘Street’
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Professor Paul G. Falkowski is an American biological oceanographer in the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
His research interests include evolution, paleoecology, photosynthesis, biophysics, biogeochemical cycles, symbiosis and sustainable energy. His current work is focused on understanding the origins of life, how electron transfer reactions are mediated, and how organisms transformed the geochemistry of Earth.
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About the lecture series:
The Peter Garland Lecture was set up in 1985 to mark the achievement of Dundee’s first Professor of Biochemistry in building up the Department into one of the strongest in the UK over the period 1970 to 1984. Fifteen Peter Garland lecturers have had, or subsequently went on to win, a Nobel Prize.