Conference: Harold Morowitz Symposium

圣菲研究所（SFI）将于2017年8月举办哈罗德·莫洛维茨研讨会。本次研讨会将表彰一位在生物物理学和遗传学领域的起源方面的重要人物，他在科学政策方面也发挥了重要作用。为期两天的研讨会将分为两个独立的部分：第一部分是Morowitz的贡献和对参与者的影响的个人回忆的机会，第二部分是Morowitz开创新领域或做出重大贡献的主要领域的选择：遗传学，生物物理学；还有科学政策。莫罗维茨不仅在科学界，而且在大众对地球上生命的地球化学起源的理解方面都是一位领军人物。他在大众层面上是一个很好的科学传播者，他的工作产生了许多非技术文章，并在新墨西哥自然历史和科学博物馆永久展出了关于生命起源的展览。本次研讨会将包括来自不同领域、性别和职业阶段的参与者。这次活动的结果将发表在SFI的情报报告中，分发给包括学术界，商界和公众在内的各种读者。morowitz早期的学术研究和写作经常涉及热力学主题和物理原理在生物学中的普遍作用。在他的职业生涯中，他逐渐从寻找最小的生命形式转向越来越全面地尝试构建生命的本质和起源。从20世纪60年代末开始，一直持续到他生命的最后，莫罗维茨是塑造地球上生命的地球化学起源的科学理解的领军人物。特别是，他的著作在阐述对理解生命起源非常重要的两个框架中的一个方面发挥了重要作用：被称为“新陈代谢优先”的观点，这种观点试图在地球化学约束下锚定生物化学的特定、普遍特征，作为后来被称为“RNA世界”的信息主导观点的先驱和基础。本项目由分子与细胞生物科学部分子生物物理项目和物理部生命系统物理学共同发起。

The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) will host the Harold Morowitz Symposium in August 2017. This Symposium will honor the long career of a major figure in the origin of the fields of biophysics and genetics, who also played a significant role in science policy. The two-day Symposium will be divided into two separate sections: first an opportunity for personal recollections of Morowitz's contributions and influences on the participants and second, a focus on a selection of major areas where Morowitz started new fields or made major contributions: genetics, biophysics; and science policy. Morowitz was a leading figure in shaping not only the scientific but also the popular understanding of the geochemical origins of life on Earth. He was a good communicator of science at the popular level and his work resulted in many nontechnical articles and a permanent exhibit on the origin of life at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. The proposed Symposium will include participants from diverse community of fields, genders and career stages. The results of the event will be published in one of SFI's Intelligence Reports disseminated to a wide variety of readers including those in academia, business and the general publicMorowitz's early academic research and writing often dealt with thermodynamic themes and the pervasive roles of physical principles in biology. Increasingly throughout his career, he turned from searches for minimal life forms to more and more comprehensive attempts to frame the nature and origin of life. Starting in the late 1960s and continuing through the end of his life, Morowitz was a leading figure in shaping the scientific understanding of the geochemical origins of life on Earth. In particular, his writings played a significant role in elaborating one of two frameworks that has become important for understanding life's origins: known as "metabolism first", this view tries to anchor specific, universal features of biochemistry in geochemical constraints, as a precursor and foundation for the later information-dominated view termed the "RNA world".This project is jointly cofounded by the Molecular Biophysics Program in the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences and the Physics of Living System in the Division of Physics.