The world’s leading research centre for complex systems science, The Santa Fe Institute (US), created a MOOC on Origins of Life, and several ELSI researchers contributed to the course.

 

Origins of Life MOOC is a Complexity Explorer course that inspires curiosity by sharing the excitement and uncertainty of a scientific area. The highly interdisciplinary course examines the chemical, geological, physical, and biological principles that give us insight into OoL research.

 

2021 edition of the course will start on Oct 4 2021, and registration open at:
https://www.complexityexplorer.org/courses/123-origins-of-life

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Videos of previous courses featuring ELSI members:

Yuka Fuji “Origins of Life - Exoplanet Atmospheric Characterization”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb_h6fiu0pg&list=PLF0b3ThojznS5m3hcoV_JIcsYJiQ7L2_R&index=64

Elizabeth Tasker “Origins of Life: Exoplanets - The Habitable Zone”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UjV63F6_3c&list=PLF0b3ThojznS5m3hcoV_JIcsYJiQ7L2_R&index=63

Nathaniel Virgo “Origins of Life: Early Life - Autocatalysis - Reaction Networks and Autocatalysis”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jSB-ke_3R8&list=PLF0b3ThojznS5m3hcoV_JIcsYJiQ7L2_R&index=50

Tony Jia “Origins of Life: Early Life - RNA - The RNA World”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2wLAZHg4Tw&list=PLF0b3ThojznS5m3hcoV_JIcsYJiQ7L2_R&index=47

Mayuko Nakagawa “Origins of Life - Chemical signatures for identifying life in the geologic record.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOaxRRRslF0&list=PLF0b3ThojznS5m3hcoV_JIcsYJiQ7L2_R&index=46

Shawn McGlynn “Origins of Life: Diversity of Energy Harvesting Across Membranes”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKU44IhlWZ8&list=PLF0b3ThojznS5m3hcoV_JIcsYJiQ7L2_R&index=42

Chris Butch “Origins of Life: Kinetic Vs Thermodynamics Assembly Constraints”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl6MKkp6oX0&list=PLF0b3ThojznS5m3hcoV_JIcsYJiQ7L2_R&index=38

Chris Butch “Origins of Life: Chemical Origins - Why Water? Why Carbon?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-wfBvVH5Rs&list=PLF0b3ThojznS5m3hcoV_JIcsYJiQ7L2_R&index=29

Chris Butch “Origins of Life: Chemical Origins - Why Nature Chose Phosphates”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnd2whKd3CQ&list=PLF0b3ThojznS5m3hcoV_JIcsYJiQ7L2_R&index=28

Chris Butch “Origins of Life: Chemical Origins - Chemistry and the Origins of Life”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljt1ST4w8oA&list=PLF0b3ThojznS5m3hcoV_JIcsYJiQ7L2_R&index=27

Eric Smith “Origins of Life: Introduction - Non-Equilibrium Physics”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqgIoZgDNRc&list=PLF0b3ThojznS5m3hcoV_JIcsYJiQ7L2_R&index=12