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Skeptics: "The Coming Age of Quantum Biology"
Thursday 28 May 2015
19:00 to 21:30
The Tea Bar, 9-13 London Street, Basingstoke RG21 7NT
England

If you missed this excellent and challenging talk at Basingstoke Cafe Sci in February, here is your chance to see Professor Johnjoe McFadden again. This talk is brought to you courtesy of the Winchester Skeptics in the Pub at the Winchester Discovery Centre.

Meet in the front cafe bar area from 7.00pm. The talks for Winchester Skeptics start at 7.30pm in the main lecture theatre and there is a £3 suggested donation towards speakers expenses at the door.

Summary: Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how does it work? Even in this age of cloning and synthetic biology, the remarkable truth remains: nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only way to make life. Are we missing a vital ingredient in its creation?

Like Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, which provided a new perspective on how evolution works, Life on the Edge alters our understanding of life's dynamics. Bringing together first-hand experience of science at the cutting edge with unparalleled gifts of exposition and explanation, Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe Macfadden reveal the hitherto missing ingredient to be quantum mechanics and the strange phenomena that lie at the heart of this most mysterious of sciences. Drawing on recent ground-breaking experiments around the world, they show how photosynthesis relies on subatomic particles existing in many places at once, while inside enzymes, those workhorses of life that make every molecule within our cells, particles vanish from one point in space and instantly materialize in another.

Biography: Johnjoe McFadden was born in Donegal, Ireland but brought up in the UK. He obtained his PhD at Imperial College London and went on to work on human genetic diseases and then infectious diseases, at the University of Surrey in Guildford, UK. For more than a decade, Professor McFadden has specialised in examining the genetics of microbes such as the agents of tuberculosis and meningitis. He has published more than 100 articles in scientific journals on subjects as wide-ranging as bacterial genetics, tuberculosis, idiopathic diseases and computer modelling of evolution and has edited a book on the genetics of mycobacteria. He has lectured extensively in the UK, Europe, the USA and Japan and his work has been featured in radio, television and national newspaper articles. His present post is Professor of Molecular Genetics at the University of Surrey.

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www.meetup.com/CafeSci-Basingstoke/events/222229161/

Contact:

Bob Clifford, Basingstoke Cafe Scientifique (info@cafesci-basingstoke.org.uk)

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