How does chemistry become biology? The border between chemistry and biology seems small when modern life seamlessly builds and maintains itself with chemical components. But the border is unfathomably larger when we attempt to reconstruct life’s chemical origins. Using synthetic and biological materials we can mimic and understand emergent features of life on earth as it transitioned from abiotic precursors into modern biology. I will discuss my work developing synthetic cells to facilitate our understanding of biological function and self-assembly from my Ph.D. (Devaraj group, UCSD), postdoctoral fellowship (Raines group, MIT), and ORIGINS Cluster visit (Boekhoven group, TUM).
https://tum-conf.zoom-x.de/j/65191706029?pwd=71EqMpef1xmKnGpcNvH23bKeK79AE1.1
