A Transdisciplinary Perspective on Life's Boundary Conditions

The Gordon Research Seminar on Origins of Life is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new data and cutting edge ideas.

By the nature of its topic, Origins of Life research is multidisciplinary. Each discipline adds its own angle to our understanding of the constraints that govern life including the top-down perspective of biology, the bottom-up perspective of chemistry, the historical perspective of geology, and the theoretical perspective of computational and analytical models. Taken together, data from these fields provide both context and challenges for each other and thus require spaces that promote the integration of the latest research and theories across disciplines. This meeting will focus on how the diverse backgrounds of today's early career scientists can produce not just an interdisciplinary but a transdisciplinary understanding of the origins of life.