June 2007 lab meeting
metaphysics
biology
1. age of the universe, milky way
big bang, 13.7 billion years ago (Cayrel et al, 2001; Dauphus, 2005)
population III stars, ~100 million years post big bang (Bromm et al 2002)
stars with rocky planets ~ 1 billion years post big bang (Marchenko 1999)
2. life on earth, geological evidence
formation of the earth 4.57 billion years ago, concurrent with condensation of the sun
continental crust and liquid ocean within 200 million years (Marty and Yokochi, 2006)
Archean Era (2.5 - 4.0 bya)
3 locations of ancient rock
SMYD family TPR domain
http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~cmg/Demo/wheel/wheelApp.html
Tetratricopeptide repeat domain; typically contains 34 amino acids [WLF]-X(2)-[LIM]-[GAS]-X(2)-[YLF]-X(8)-[ASE]-X(3)-[FYL]-X(2)-[ASL]-X(4)-[PKE] is the consensus sequence
microscopy 3 color vectors
psCFP2, pEGFP-C1, mRFP