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