Molecular Origins of Life, Munich 2022

Speaker List

• Job Boekhoven (TU Munich, DE)
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    Molecular Self-Assembly Regulated by Chemical Reaction Cycles

• Dieter Braun (LMU Munich, DE)
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    Towards RNA-life from 2’,3’-cyclic nucleotides at CO2-water interfaces

• Moran Frenkel-Pinter (The Hebrew U, IL)
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    Chemical Evolution Reimagined

• Ulrich Gerland (TU Munich, DE)
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    Probing the emergent behavior of RNA pools in silico

• Dina Grohmann (U Regensburg, DE)
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    Some like it hot – adaptation strategies of hyperthermophilic Archaea

• Amelie Heuer-Jungemann (MPI Biochemistry, DE)
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    DNA Origami in Origins of Life Research

• Paul Higgs (McMaster U, CA)
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    Computer Simulations of Non-Enzymatic Template-Directed RNA Synthesis

• David Horning (Salk Inst, USA)
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    Evolving ribozymes to copy ribozymes: bootstrapping our way back to the RNA world

• Toshiko Ichiye (Georgetown U, US)
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    Evolution and Adaptation of Enzymes to Extreme Environments

• Nick Lane (UCL, UK)
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    Life as a Guide: Autotrophic protocells, protometabolism and the emergence of heredity

• Andrei Lupas (MPI Biology, DE)
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    Proteins From Peptides

• Christof Mast (LMU Munich, DE)
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    Heat flows as a driving force in a natural OOL laboratory

• Sarah Maurer (CCSU, US)
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    Protocell formation and function in realistic prebiotic environments

• Kamila Muchowska (U Strasbourg, FR)
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    PLP and the catalytic takeover in the origins of metabolism

• Ulrich Müller (UCSD, US)
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    A catalytic RNA that generates GTP

• Henrike Niederholtmeyer (MPI Terrestrial Microbiology, DE)
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    Engineering spatial organization from the bottom up

• Clemens Richert (U Stuttgart, DE)
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    Chemical Copying of RNA

• James Saenz (TU Dresden, DE)
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    RNA-lipid interactions in the synthesis and origin of life

• Bettina Scheu (LMU Munich, DE)
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    Geological Disequilibrium Systems on Early Earth: Pathways to a vivid planet?

• Burckhard Seelig (U Minnesota, US)
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    Can ancient genetic codes support life? – An experimental study

• Oliver Trapp (LMU Munich, DE)
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    Initial Steps towards an Evolutionary System leading to the Emergence of Life

• Peter Unrau (SFU, CA)
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    A modular RNA polymerase ribozyme with promoter recognition topologically associates with its template

• Frances Westall (CNRS, FR)
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    The Molecular Origins of Life : the geological context

• Cathleen Zeymer (TU Munich, DE)
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    Design and directed evolution of artificial metalloenzymes and photoenzymes