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Human Kidney Stones: A Natural Record of Universal Biomineralization
November 17, 2022
7:00 PM - 8:15 PM
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prof. bruce W. fouke
Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center
Ralph E. Grim Professor of Geology
Health Innovation Professor, Carle Illinois College of Medicine
Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
"Human Kidney Stones: A Natural Record of Universal Biomineralization"
ABSTRACT
GeoBioMed — a new transdisciplinary approach that integrates the fields of geology, biology and medicine — reveals that kidney stones composed of calcium-rich minerals precipitate from a continuum of repeated events of crystallization, dissolution, and recrystallization that result from the same fundamental natural processes that have governed billions of years of biomineralization on Earth. This contextual change in our understanding of renal stone formation opens fundamentally new avenues of human kidney stone investigation that include analyses of crystalline structure and stratigraphy, diagenetic phase transitions, and paragenetic sequences across broad length scales from hundreds of nanometers to centimeters (five powers of 10). These GeoBioMed insights identify previously unexplored strategies for development and testing of new clinical therapies for the prevention and treatment of kidney stones.
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SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
Bruce W. Fouke is the Ralph E. Grim Professor of Geology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and holds appointments in the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology and the Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior. He also serves as Director of the Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center and is a Health Innovation Professor in the Carle Illinois College of Medicine. Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone has long served as a natural laboratory for Prof. Fouke’s geobiological studies of life-water-mineral interactions. Results have led to better understanding of universal biomineralization processes in hot spring and coral reef ecosystems, astrobiology, the deep subsurface of the Earth’s crust, Roman aqueducts, and the human body.
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