Leaders in Pharmaceutical Business Intelligence (LPBI) Group

Three more volunteers are needed to review the book.  (See program below.)

 

Please contact

Jim DeLeo jdeleo@nih.gov

and

Jerry McLaughlin Gerald.McLaughlin@nih.gov

if you are interested.

 

 

BCIG Book Club Meeting

 

“Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life”

by Nick Lane

 

 

CLICK HERE TO SAMPLE THE BOOK

 

When:  5:30–7:30 PM, Thursday, September 27, 2012

 

Where:  NIH Clinical Center (Old Building 10), Old Medical Board Room (Room 2C-116)

 

                        SECTION                                             PRESENTER

            Introduction                                                    

    Part 1: Hopeful Monster: The Origin of the Eukaryotic Cell               John Pepper 

    Part 2: The Vital Force: Proton Power and the Origin of Life             Ellen Bicknell

    Part 3: Insider Deal: The Foundations of Complexity                          you?

    Part 4: Power Laws: Size of the Complexity of Ascending Complexity           you?

    Part 5: Murder or Suicide: The Troubled Birth of the Individual          Nada Vydelingum

    Part 6: Battle of the Sexes: Human Pre-History and the Nature of Gender      you?

    Part 7: Clock of Life: Why Mitochondria Kill us in the End               Jerry McLaughlin

            Epilogue                                                             

IN A NUTSHELL: (from Wikipedia) Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life is a 2005 popular science book by Nick Lane of University College London, which argues that mitochondria are central to questions of the evolution of multicellularity, the evolution of sexual reproduction, and to the process of senescence. Amongst the theories advanced in the book, Lane endorses the hydrogen hypothesis for the formation of the eukaryotic cell, whereby mitochondria are the original defining characteristic of the structure. He argues that the event was an exceedingly improbable one and questions the likelihood of it having happened elsewhere in the Universe. He also suggests that the necessity for genetic compatibility between mitochondrial and nuclear DNA lies behind the differentiation of biological genders, ensuring that only one sexual partner contributes mitochondrial DNA to offspring.

AUTHOR: Nick Lane is a British biochemist. He holds the post of honorary reader and is the first Provost’s Venture Research Fellow at University College London and was formerly strategic director at Adelphi MediCine, a medical multimedia company. He is the author of three popular science books and many articles. His latest book, Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution, won the 2010 Royal Society Prize for Science Books.orter