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
    @davidguerizec6459 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @Deipnosophist_the_Gastronomer

    @Deipnosophist_the_Gastronomer

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks

  • @dangerdackel

    @dangerdackel

    Жыл бұрын

    Still can’t get it right

  • @AraCarrano

    @AraCarrano

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @TheLoudestOfSilences

    @TheLoudestOfSilences

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @Knud451

    @Knud451

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @deadscenedotcom
    @deadscenedotcom Жыл бұрын

    Outstanding talk, my favorite so far. This has huge implications to me. Please invite Alexandra Olaya-Castro again when she has new developments!

  • @gnored
    @gnored Жыл бұрын

    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
    @andycordy5190 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @LearnedSome
    @LearnedSome Жыл бұрын

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

  • @krish2nasa
    @krish2nasa Жыл бұрын

    Fascinating talk. Thank you very much.

  • @LarsRyeJeppesen
    @LarsRyeJeppesen Жыл бұрын

    Fantastic presentation

  • @adityavardhanjain
    @adityavardhanjain Жыл бұрын

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

  • @CognitiveOffense
    @CognitiveOffense Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @dosesandmimoses
    @dosesandmimoses Жыл бұрын

    Congratulations to you and your lab team!

  • @NoNTr1v1aL
    @NoNTr1v1aL Жыл бұрын

    Absolutely brilliant lecture!

  • @alfredadler3328

    @alfredadler3328

    Жыл бұрын

    i hear almost nothing, to quit

  • @voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885

    @voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885
    @voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 Жыл бұрын

    Andrija Puharich would be thrilled by this talk. thanks

  • @tresajessygeorge210
    @tresajessygeorge210 Жыл бұрын

    THANK YOU...!!!

  • @itsmodsiw
    @itsmodsiw Жыл бұрын

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

  • @dupont7945

    @dupont7945

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @NoNTr1v1aL

    @NoNTr1v1aL

    Жыл бұрын

    They're obviously a time traveller.

  • @dupont7945

    @dupont7945

    Жыл бұрын

    @@NoNTr1v1aL Are you seriously kidding me?🤣

  • @LarsRyeJeppesen

    @LarsRyeJeppesen

    Жыл бұрын

    @@dupont7945 /r/woooosh

  • @mayflowerlash11
    @mayflowerlash11 Жыл бұрын

    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?

  • @AraCarrano
    @AraCarrano Жыл бұрын

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

  • @vblaas246
    @vblaas246 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you! Best part from 39:00 onward.

  • @DW_Kiwi
    @DW_Kiwi Жыл бұрын

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

  • @nissemabdeljelil
    @nissemabdeljelil3 ай бұрын

    Very inspiring 👏

  • @Tacit_Tern
    @Tacit_Tern Жыл бұрын

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

  • @vblaas246

    @vblaas246

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @bad1970muts
    @bad1970muts Жыл бұрын

    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

    @Tacit_Tern

    Жыл бұрын

    Are you referring to biomimicry at a production level?

  • @bad1970muts

    @bad1970muts

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @RalfStephan

    @RalfStephan

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @reneerhardt9545
    @reneerhardt9545 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @wildmanofthenorth1598
    @wildmanofthenorth1598 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @mvexler
    @mvexler Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @rufussweeneymd
    @rufussweeneymd Жыл бұрын

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

  • @tjwoosta

    @tjwoosta

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @gordonspond8223
    @gordonspond8223 Жыл бұрын

    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

    @vblaas246

    Жыл бұрын

    "3 gears are possible" - Numberphile

  • @jamesraymond1158
    @jamesraymond1158 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @llwellyncuhfwarthen
    @llwellyncuhfwarthen Жыл бұрын

    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

    @luciususiholo6956

    Жыл бұрын

    It gets better after 2mins

  • @AraCarrano
    @AraCarrano Жыл бұрын

    Audio normalization killed by intro clip.

  • @stephanmotzek779
    @stephanmotzek779 Жыл бұрын

    Wow

  • @alexcoghlan1940
    @alexcoghlan1940 Жыл бұрын

    👏👏👏👏👏

  • @RalfStephan
    @RalfStephan Жыл бұрын

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

  • @adnon2604
    @adnon26047 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @shamsulazhar
    @shamsulazhar Жыл бұрын

    Audio is too low

  • @voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885

    @voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @MichaelScott_DinkinFlicka
    @MichaelScott_DinkinFlicka Жыл бұрын

    Surrey is the best for this.

  • @robincross4625
    @robincross4625 Жыл бұрын

    AUDIO TOO CAN'T Hear it.

  • @lmaolmaolmaolmao1234

    @lmaolmaolmaolmao1234

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @andrewsparkinson1566
    @andrewsparkinson1566 Жыл бұрын

    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

    @thstroyur

    Жыл бұрын

    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

    @buendodo

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@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

    @thstroyur

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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.

  • @iteerrex8166
    @iteerrex8166 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @vblaas246

    @vblaas246

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes, ~gangnam~ Car-Parinello style

  • @voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885

    @voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @iteerrex8166

    @iteerrex8166

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885

    @voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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

    @iteerrex8166

    Жыл бұрын

    @@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 I may, thanks :)

  • @theoreticalphysics726
    @theoreticalphysics726 Жыл бұрын

    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

    @adnon2604

    7 ай бұрын

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

  • @cspreach1963

    @cspreach1963

    6 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @unnikrishnannairkrishnannair.
    @unnikrishnannairkrishnannair. Жыл бұрын

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

  • @mrmustard1633
    @mrmustard1633 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885

    @voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @Sc0ttPrian
    @Sc0ttPrian Жыл бұрын

    Jumpscare at 2:03

  • @xaviermachiavelli5236
    @xaviermachiavelli52369 ай бұрын

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

  • @sobbski2672
    @sobbski2672 Жыл бұрын

    2:00 attention grabbing

  • @nateshrager512

    @nateshrager512

    Жыл бұрын

    Haha when the audio comes in proper

  • @SMRR17
    @SMRR17 Жыл бұрын

    what?

  • @Mangofretchen
    @Mangofretchen Жыл бұрын

    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

    @voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @gordonspond8223
    @gordonspond8223 Жыл бұрын

    AOC?

  • @georgesos

    @georgesos

    Жыл бұрын

    😀...not that one.

  • @dingo1666
    @dingo1666 Жыл бұрын

    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

    @skitzo23

    Жыл бұрын

    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

    @rolf-joachimschroder917

    Жыл бұрын

    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

    @FuburLuck

    Жыл бұрын

    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

    @nateshrager512

    Жыл бұрын

    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

    @FuburLuck

    Жыл бұрын

    @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
    @cosmoshfa88savant66 Жыл бұрын

    1.04 Tiny Brussels sprouts??

  • @cosmoshfa88savant66
    @cosmoshfa88savant66 Жыл бұрын

    In Nature everyting is connected to everything else,,,

  • @supportadmin7735
    @supportadmin77356 ай бұрын

    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.

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