The Crafoord Prize Symposium in Geosciences: The evolution of life on Earth through deep time

Date: 2022-04-26

Time: 09:30 - 16:30

Address: Helgonavägen 3, Lund

Venue: LUX

The Crafoord Prize Symposium in Geosciences: The evolution of life on Earth through deep time

Lectures by the Laureate in Geosciences and invited speakers.

The symposium is organized in conjunction with the award of the Crafoord Prize in Geosciences. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2022 Crafoord Prize in Geosciences to Andrew H. Knoll, Harvard University, USA  “for fundamental contributions to our understanding of the first three billion years of life on Earth and life’s interactions with the physical environment through time”.

Programme

Morning session
Ulf Söderlund, Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

09:30
Opening address
Hans Ellegren, Secretary General, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

09:35
Presentation of the Crafoord Laureate
Martin Jakobsson, Chair of the Crafoord Prize Committee in Geosciences

09:45
Phytoplankton in space and time
Crafoord Laureate Andrew H. Knoll, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

10:35
Coffee break

10:55
Significance of microbes during mass extinction events and their role in exceptional fossil preservation
Kliti Grice, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

11:35
The rise of eukaryotes
Susannah M. Porter, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA

12:15
Lunch, included for registered participants

Afternoon session
Vivi Vajda, Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

13:15
A case for an active eukaryotic marine biosphere during the Proterozoic Era: Fossils meet models
Donald E. Canfield, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

13:55
Exploring extant algae for signals of ancient atmospheres as influenced by life
Rosalind E. M. Rickaby, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

14:35
Coffee break

15:05
The fossil record of early animals
Shuhai Xiao, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA

15:45
Pumping and swimming through time
Nicholas J. Butterfield, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

16:25
Closing remarks
Stefan Bengtson, Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

16:30
End of symposium

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Contact

Peter Brandén
Program Coordinator
program@kva.se