Event
‘Deriving the absolute photosynthetic efficiency in the world’s oceans’
The Peter Garland Lecture 2024 by Professor Paul Falkowski - Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Friday 5 July 2024
University of Dundee
Dow Street
Dundee DD1 5HL
Venue: Large Lecture Theatre, MSI
Host: Professor Claire Halpin
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.