{"301651":{"#nid":"301651","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Breakfast Club Seminar","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0022RNA and Protein: A Match Made in the Hadean\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELoren Williams, PhD\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDirector, NASA-NAI RiboEvo Center\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProfessor\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Chemistry \u0026amp; Biochemistry\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Williams lab studies RNA, using synthetic biology, phylogeny, biophysical chemistry, bioinformatics, molecular biology and paleogeology. They construct models of ancient ribosomes in silico, in vitro and in vivo. They deconstruct and reverse engineer the ribosome providing tools for understanding the origin of life and for discovery of new antibiotics. They study DNA interactions with ions, anti-cancer drugs and proteins.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELoren Williams was born in Seattle, Washington. In 1981 he received his B.Sc. in Chemistry from the University of Washington where he worked in the laboratory of Martin Gouterman. In 1985 he received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Duke University, where he worked the laboratory of Barbara Shaw. He was an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow first at Duke then at Harvard. From 1988 to 1992 he was an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow with Alex Rich in the Department of Biology at MIT. He joined the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Georgia Tech in 1992 where is he currently a professor. Loren received an NSF CAREER Award in 1995, and a Sigma Xi Award for best paper from Georgia Tech in 1996. He is director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute funded Ribo Evo Center. The goal of the Center is to rewind the \u201ctape of life\u201d, to understand and recapitulate macromolecular synthesis, folding, assembly and catalysis of primodial biological systems. The Center uses biology\u0027s translation system, which contains an interpretable molecular record of the deep and distant evolutionary past, to understand biology before LUCA.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Petit Institute Breakfast Club seminar series was started with the spirit of the Institute\u0027s interdisciplinary mission in mind and started to feature local Petit Institute faculty member\u0027s research in a seminar format. Faculty are often asked to speak at other universities and conferences, but rarely present at their home institution, this seminar series is an attempt to close that gap. 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