Biomineralization: Life Harnessing Mineral Growth Over Four Billion Years

The Chicago Council on Science and Technology

Dr. Bruce Fouke discusses biomineralization, the process of life controlling mineral growth in the environment, and its modern applications.

The survival of all forms of Life on Earth through geological time has depended on controlling mineral growth within the environments they inhabit. This process, called biomineralization, has been an essential, unavoidable and ubiquitously distributed force of nature that has caused essential strategic benefits (like forming bones for muscle attachment), as well as profound practical problems and impediments (such as the growth of kidney stones). Ancient peoples around the world have possessed a basic understanding of this interconnectedness of all forms of life within the natural world. However, it was not until Alexander von Humboldt’s 19th Century portrait of nature in Cosmos that Western science earnestly began to recognize biomineralization as an integrative physical, chemical and biological phenomenon. This presentation will explore the scientific renaissance being driven by newly developed molecular and microscopy tools, into the processes of biomineralization. This reframes our basic approaches to the grand challenges that face society regarding the environment, energy, medicine and space exploration. Event Details:Thursday, November 12th, 2020, 4:00-5:00 pm CT, C2ST Facebook Live &amp; C2ST TV Youtube Live.
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Featured Speaker:
Bruce Fouke, PhD

Bruce Fouke is a professor in Geology, Integrative Biology and the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He also serves as Director of the Illinois Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center. His progressive geological and biological (geobiology) research investigates how living and fossil organisms have developed biomineralization strategies to survive environmental change. This includes the study of: (1) the control of sea surface temperature on coral skeletal growth; (2) the global emergence of infectious marine diseases; (3) enhanced hydrocarbon recovery; (4) the survival of heat-loving (thermophilic) bacteria in hot-springs; (5) the development of antibiotic resistance in response to antibiotic treatments; (6) the timing of the last flow of water in ancient Roman aqueducts; and (7) microbe-human-water-rock interactions during kidney stone formation. This program is presented in partnership with:The Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

The Kleinmuntz Center for Genomics in Business and Society

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Biomineralization: Life Harnessing Mineral Growth Over Four Billion Years

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