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User:LorenWilliams

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Name
Loren Williams
Affiliation
Georgia Tech
Email address
ldw@gatech.edu

Biography

Loren Williams was born in Seattle, Washington. He received his B.Sc. in Chemistry from the University of Washington where he worked in the laboratory of Martin Gouterman. 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 Alexander 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 received SAIC Student Advisement Award in 2012, the Petit Institute "Above and Beyond" Award in 2012, Georgia Tech's Faculty Award for Academic Outreach in 2013, and the Georgia Tech College of Science Faculty Mentor Award in 2013. He was director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute funded Ribo Evo Center from 2008 to 2015 and is currently Directer of the NASA-funded Center for the Origin of Life.

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Presenter

This user is listed as a presenter for the following agenda items:

  1. Major Transitions in Life: Origins to Translation/The Origins and Essential Nature of Biopolymers

Attendee

This user is listed as an attendee for the following meetings:

  1. Major Transitions in Life: Origins to Translation