Seminar @ DF-TS - Tue 1st March 3 pm - F. Pichierri - "Quantum Biology'

[Rosita Glavina - Dip. Fisica, UniTS]

We are pleased to announce the seminar @ DF-TheorySection UniTs:
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Fabio PICHIERRI
Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku 
University, Japan

"Quantum Biology: an overview of current experimental and theoretical 
studies"

Tuesday, 1st March 2016 - 3:00 pm
Euler seminar room, LB

ABSTRACT:
In this talk I will present an overview of the transdisciplinary field
of quantum biology (QB). Both experimental and theoretical studies
recently performed by several research groups indicate that biological
phenomena such as photosynthesis in plants, avian magnetoreception,
as well as vision and olfaction in the living organisms take place
through nontrivial quantum mechanical effects (e.g. quantum coherence).
A challenge for physicists and chemists working on these QB problems
is to understand how such effects may take place at room temperature
and in the wet biological environments where decoherence is expected to 
dominate.

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