The PCE₃ Seminar Series is designed to highlight diverse origins of life research from all over the world, spark interdisciplinary discussion, and facilitate research connections among the PCE₃ community. A primary goal of this series is to showcase the work of talented early career scientists in PCE₃ sciences.

The series continues on Thursday, July 21st, from 1:00-2:30 pm (EST). Additionally, sessions will be recorded with the permission of the speakers and uploaded to the PCE₃ YouTube Channel.

The topic of this session is "protocells". Derek O'Flaherty will present “Nonenzymatic genome replication inside model protocells”, and Claudia Bonfio will present “Towards the emergence of modern cells”, with an introduction by Irene Chen, Associate Professor at the

University of California, Los Angeles.

Please register at the link above, and visit the PCE₃ Seminar Series website for previous sessions. Join the PCE₃ Slack here to continue discussion post-talks, and connect on Twitter @PCE3_Sci.