Maggie Fink, PhD and Shahir Rizk, PhD
Tuesday April 1st 2025 - 6:30 pm ET
Leighton Auditorium, Main Branch, St. Joseph County Public Library
Taking us beyond the confines of our own experiences, in their upcoming book, The Color of North, Shahir Rizk and Maggie Fink traverse the kingdom of life to uncover the myriad ways that proteins shape us and all organisms on the planet. Inside every cell, a tight-knit community of millions of proteins skillfully contorts into unique shapes to give fireflies their ghostly glow, to enable the octopus to see predators with its skin, and to make humans fall in love. Collectively, proteins orchestrate the intricate relationships within ecosystems and forge the trajectory of life. And yet, nature has exploited just a fraction of their immense potential.
