Saurja DasGupta, PhD
Tuesday February 3rd 2026 - 6:30 pm ET
Leighton Auditorium, Main Branch, St. Joseph County Public Library
How did life begin on Earth nearly four billion years ago — and how simple was it at the start? In this talk, Saurja DasGupta will invite you on a journey through humanity’s long quest to understand life’s origins, from early philosophical ideas to modern chemical experiments. Through stories, artwork, and cutting-edge science, we’ll explore how simple molecules may have organized into the first living systems — and what that might reveal about the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe.
About the speaker: Saurja DasGupta, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at University of Notre Dame
