A future with quantum biology - with Alexandra Olaya-Castro

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Scientific and technological advances have enabled us to zoom into the biological world. We can get down to the biomolecular scale, a domain where quantum phenomena can take place and therefore cannot be neglected.
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This talk was recorded at the Royal Institution on 28 October 2022.
Upon completing her doctoral studies in 2005 at the University of Oxford, Alexandra Olaya-Castro was subsequently awarded a three-year Junior Research Fellowship by Trinity College (Oxford), where she began her independent research career.
In November 2008 Alexandra Olaya-Castro obtained a five-year EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship that allowed her to start a research group in the Department of Physics and Astronomy of University College London. She was then appointed as a Lecturer in September 2011, was promoted to Reader in October 2015 and to full Professor in 2018.
Throughout her career Alexandra has made scientific contributions to the understanding of signatures and implications of quantum coherence in a variety of quantum systems that include exciton condensates in quantum wells, multi-qubit systems embedded in optical cavities and, her current focus, photo-activated biomolecular systems.
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@davidguerizec6459 Год назад

Don't be discouraged by the sound level at start, it's much better after ~2min.

@Deipnosophist_the_Gastronomer Год назад

Thanks

@dangerdackel Год назад

Still can’t get it right

@AraCarrano Год назад

Topic for RI: LUFS , Loudness Units relative to Full Scale.

@TheLoudestOfSilences Год назад

Bless you lol kept me on a video I was super excited for

@Knud451 Год назад

I can assure you I realised that as I had turned the volume up quite high 🤣

@gnored Год назад

Most interesting talk on this subject area that I have ever heard. I do hope to hear more fromAlexandra Olaya-Castro in the future!

@andycordy5190 Год назад

The beauty of these components at the molecular level is amazing. The photon antenna in particular is astonishing.

@LearnedSome Год назад

Could have normalized the audio before uploading to save our speakers.

@CognitiveOffense Год назад

Amazingly cool talk. I wouldn't be surprised at all if a chaotic critical point in the relationship between separated parts of the chemical structure facilitates energy capture and transfer.

@isatousarr7044 Месяц назад

Grasping the quantum foundations that govern biological systems has the potential to unlock a plethora of new opportunities and pathways in various scientific disciplines, including but not limited to biochemistry, biophysics, and the rapidly advancing field of nanotechnology. This deeper understanding can ultimately lead to groundbreaking innovations and advancements in several areas, such as drug design, where more effective pharmaceuticals can be developed, as well as in molecular engineering, which involves the intricate manipulation of molecular structures. Additionally, it can significantly impact the domain of synthetic biology, fostering the creation of new biological parts, devices, and systems that can revolutionize the way we approach life sciences.

@krish2nasa Год назад

Fascinating talk. Thank you very much.

@mayflowerlash11 Год назад

So, photosynthesis is only possible because of quantum mechanical effects. This is mind blowing. Inanimate material on Earth 3.8 billion years ago evolved to create life incorporating quantum mechanical processes. So is it possible that consciousness is also a consequence of a quantum mechanical effect?

@NoNTr1v1aL Год назад

Absolutely brilliant lecture!

@alfredadler3328 Год назад

i hear almost nothing, to quit

@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 Год назад

@@alfredadler3328 If you have 2 minutes of patience then the volume doubles

@Raydensheraj Месяц назад

Quantum biology integrated with evolutionary theory is a subject that seriously needs to be fleshed out. Incredibly interesting...and also something researchers in Origin of Life researchers should look into...

@itsmodsiw Год назад

Me and my wife have entailed into research, your work inspire us greatly. Thanks.

@dupont7945 Год назад

The video was just uploaded, how could you make comment 5 days earlier?

@NoNTr1v1aL Год назад

They're obviously a time traveller.

@dupont7945 Год назад

@@NoNTr1v1aL Are you seriously kidding me?🤣

@LarsRyeJeppesen Год назад

@@dupont7945 /r/woooosh

@stefanobutelli3588 2 месяца назад

@@dupont7945 He's premium

@adityavardhanjain Год назад

Great lecture. Can't wait for Quantam Physiology :D

@Tacit_Tern Год назад

How could we benefit from a confluence of biomimicry and quantum biology? Any ideas?

@vblaas246 Год назад

Directed evolution in presence of different chromophore molecules, for living solar cells or something. The last slide shows chromophore materials too.

@jamesraymond1158 Год назад

I am very interested in this subject but found the talk difficult to listen to. I wish she would have spent more time explaining the items in a slide before talking about the whole slide. Also, way too much introduction. The first 25 min could be eliminated. It would have been better to start right off with an example quantum event.

@LarsRyeJeppesen Год назад

Fantastic presentation

@AraCarrano Год назад

Topic for RI: LUFS, Loudness Units relative to Full Scale.

@rufussweeneymd Год назад

The audio is coming through really quiet for me. Could you reupload a bit louder?

@tjwoosta Год назад

Its really quiet for about 2 minutes then it suddenly gets loud.

@DW_Kiwi Год назад

Explain the "co-operation" process of these Nana scale quantum entities during chemical photosynthesis. Easy to say.

@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 Год назад

Andrija Puharich would be thrilled by this talk. thanks

@reneerhardt9545 Год назад

Great talk but better change the slide at 13:26, these wheels won't turn like that.

@bad1970muts Год назад

How difficult is it to reproduce these results synthetically? Is it plausible that such processes can also occur elsewhere in the universe? What does this say about the origin of life? Thank you, what a great historical presentation. Immediately raises a lot of follow-up questions. Fantastic!

@Tacit_Tern Год назад

Are you referring to biomimicry at a production level?

@bad1970muts Год назад

Yes, I am particularly curious about the probability that these processes can also arise elsewhere somewhere in the universe.

@RalfStephan Год назад

@@bad1970muts You would need life in that place on a similar (carbon) basis as ours, with its vast productivity and coverage of chemical space.

@dosesandmimoses Год назад

Congratulations to you and your lab team!

@tresajessygeorge210 Год назад

THANK YOU...!!!

@gordonspond Год назад

13:19 Maybe on the quantum level gears can turn like that... but on the human scale I have never seem them behave that way.

@vblaas246 Год назад

"3 gears are possible" - Numberphile

@llwellyncuhfwarthen Год назад

Well, I can't hear this at all. Before uploading, try taking your video, and porting it to a completely different platform/device and seeing if the audio comes out correct. Yes I know often the audio does not always work perfectly, but a instructor who can not be heard clearly is passing no information on to anyone.

@luciususiholo6956 Год назад

It gets better after 2mins

@nissemabdeljelil 6 месяцев назад

Very inspiring 👏

@vblaas246 Год назад

Thank you! Best part from 39:00 onward.

@wildmanofthenorth1598 Год назад

Logic gate shift with chemical structure tension. Neg pressure Positive pressure Resonate switching? Chirality ?

@mvexler Год назад

Wondering if the dual proprieties of light could provide additional insights? Light exhibits dual properties of wave and photon. As a wave, light exhibits properties like reflection, refraction, and interference, while as a photon, it has a discrete energy and behaves as a particle. This duality was explained by quantum mechanics. The wave-like properties of light follow the laws of Maxwell's equations, while the particle-like properties follow the principles of quantum mechanics.

@AraCarrano Год назад

Audio normalization killed by intro clip.

@adnon2604 11 месяцев назад

If I'm allowed to do nitpicking, I would like them (quantum 'big things' researchers) to specify what exactly they mean by "quantum processes". Are they processes that CAN be explained in the framework of quantum mechanics, or that CANNOT be explained in the framework of classical mechanics? I think only the latter definition is suitable for the term "quantum processes". For instance, pendulum isochronism can be explained in the framework of quantum mechanics, but nobody calls it a quantum process. As far as this video is concerned, I'm not fully convinced that the shift has something to do with the quantum in the above sense. The shift due to an additional interaction can occur in purely classical systems as well. Due to an additional interaction, of course, the energy transfer rate would naturally change. If the increment occurs only in the framework of quantum mechanics or is more significant there, that would be interesting.

@RalfStephan Год назад

First slide, picture of Earth 4.8 billion years ago showing today's continents, huh?

@shamsulazhar Год назад

Audio is too low

@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 Год назад

not if you listen for 2 minutes then it doubles in volume.

@robincross4625 Год назад

AUDIO TOO CAN'T Hear it.

@lmaolmaolmaolmao1234 Год назад

Give it' a Moment, the AUDIO greatly improves after just about 2-min. in.

@MichaelScott_DinkinFlicka Год назад

Surrey is the best for this.

@andrewsparkinson1566 Год назад

Well done, if you can measure 90% photon energy transfer to photosynthesis material, you have cracked the code and relatively free energy solar cells are next. Thankyou.

@thstroyur Год назад

The high efficiency of photosynthesis has been known for a while. Between her thick accent and aloof communication, I didn't get why these results are supposed to be a big deal. The big thing seems to be that vibronic coupling facilitates electron transfer, but even that isn't too surprising if we remember BCS superconductivity happens due to phononic coupling. I may be completely wrong in my assessment, but this looks and feels like a nothing sandwich - much like many a colloquium I attended back in uni.

@buendodo Год назад

@thstroyur how many languages do you speak fluently? she speaks at least two. Can you give an s peech in a foreign language without a thick accent?

@thstroyur Год назад

@@buendodo Your whataboutism does not deflect from the validity of my comment; accents per se aren't a problem - but they become one if they render the speaker unintelligible, or otherwise hinder listening - and it's fair game criticizing that. Bearing on my college days, one experiences the full spectrum during one's course; not fun trying to learn something difficult, while at the same time struggling to decipher whatever the person is even saying.

@unnikrishnannairkrishnannair. Год назад

Sea alge tu ular green comly with it. They produces noice at nayarambalam kerala a shrimp farm

@mrmustard1633 Год назад

Shout out to my hero Jim al Khalili for bringing this stuff into public consciousness over a decade ago

@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 Год назад

actually JohnJoe McFadden was before him - around 2006. Also Dr. Mae-Wan Ho - her book, "Rainbow and the Worm"

@theoreticalphysics726 Год назад

QM is fundamental. And if we can control this without the use of things like The Large Hadron Collider, we could probably direct energy however we like. On a DNA-level it would mean that we could design cells to cure many diseases, and much more. Thanks for this. Maybe one of the most interesting findings now when we seem to be stuck in theories impossible to experimentally verify.

@adnon2604 11 месяцев назад

You can cure diseased cells without QM. Almost no medical technicians are quantum experts.

@cspreach1963 9 месяцев назад

That’s literally the mRNA vaccines. It uses nanotech lipid particles. It’s literally littered through every US Patent and Contract regarding the Covid-19 vaccines.

@stephanmotzek779 Год назад

Wow

@Mangofretchen Год назад

She sounds kinda nervous (her breathing). And she takes too much time off-topic. Also her explanations don't feel like they're supposed to be understood by laymen.

@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 Год назад

it's basically speaking another language to not use the mathematics, etc. Science is based on the language of mathematics.

@alexcoghlan1940 Год назад

👏👏👏👏👏

@Sc0ttPrian Год назад

Jumpscare at 2:03

@iteerrex8166 Год назад

We haven’t figured QM, and we’re talking about it’s connection to the complex field of biology?

@vblaas246 Год назад

Yes, ~gangnam~ Car-Parinello style

@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 Год назад

study quantum physics Professor Basil J. Hiley - he figured it out.

@iteerrex8166 Год назад

@@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 Unless he has a new model.. Due to its fundamental flaws, there’s no figuring this one, nor is it fixable.

@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 Год назад

@@iteerrex8166 So you don't want to just search his name? hahaha. "Learning how to learn" is the most important step. Hiley relies on noncommutativity. thanks

@iteerrex8166 Год назад

@@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 I may, thanks :)

@xaviermachiavelli5236 Год назад

So is that I doubt it good¥ right to soon ha ha ha ha.\°

@sobbski2672 Год назад

2:00 attention grabbing

@nateshrager512 Год назад

Haha when the audio comes in proper

@SMRR17 Год назад

what?

@gordonspond Год назад

AOC?

@georgesos Год назад

😀...not that one.

@dingo1666 Год назад

Photosynthesis also relies on CO2. The very thing some -rich- people want to reduce to zero from humans, cattle and other sources. Too little CO2 will lead to plant deaths and plant deaths lead to a reduction in oxygen, a reduction of oxygen will lead to the death of mammals and other life dependent on it. To 'fight' high CO2 levels best would be to plant more trees, not to stop us or any other forms of life from producing it.

@skitzo23 Год назад

Plants release CO2 by cellular respiration and after they die. You can't sustainably offset CO2 through planting trees while still using up fossil fuels. That is a scientific fact. Also, there will never be 'too little' CO2 just because humans stop burning former organic matter. Life (photosynthetic) on earth managed with all the CO2 available for almost 4bn years. I think it can manage without us burning fossil fuels. And even if CO2 levels got critically low (I felt dumber just typing that), what is stopping humanity to restart burning things at any point? Anthropogenic climate change is real, get over it.

@rolf-joachimschroder917 Год назад

I'm sorry that's way too simple thought, nature is unfortunately way too complex for it to simply be enough to plant any trees, which usually die when we have too much CO2 in the air and it gets too hot and dry

@FuburLuck Год назад

Exactly WHO are you claiming wants to reduce CO2 emissions to zero from all sources? Answer: No one. That's a straw-man argument. People worried about climate change want to REDUCE CO2 emissions, not zero them out.

@nateshrager512 Год назад

You realize it's impossible to reduce to zero our co2 emissions? They want net zero which is very different from what you are implying. But yes conserving forests (especially rainforests and mosses) is definitely a good thing. But we are also producing wayy too much co2 per person

@FuburLuck Год назад

@Nate Shrager All the sane replies to this guy keep disappearing. I think he's reporting all replies as spam or something to hide them. Anyone that calls him on his false argument gets zapped. No one is calling for zero CO2 emissions, but for reduced emissions. Any comments that give a reality check to his strawman argument gets hidden.

@cosmoshfa88savant66 Год назад

1.04 Tiny Brussels sprouts??

@cosmoshfa88savant66 Год назад

In Nature everyting is connected to everything else,,,

@supportadmin7735 10 месяцев назад

Wow the proteins fold and act like quantum antennas and use it to power the molecular machinery, just the sheer amount of nanotechnology and unity is mind blowing. That amount of symmetry proves to me there is a Grand Unifying force, God whatever you want to call it, Theory of Everything Buddha Krishna etc. Each Cubit is full of consciousness, contains the whole of the parts like a fractal hologram film that could be in any state all at the same time.