Name: Molecular Origins of Life, Munich 2022
Start: 2022-06-16T08:25:00+02:00
End: 2022-06-17T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Literaturhaus München

Donnerstag, 16. Juni 2022

08:25 Opening Remarks
Opening Remarks
08:25 - 08:30
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08:30
08:30 - 09:45
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Beiträge

08:30 Engineering spatial organization from the bottom up - Henrike Niederholtmeyer (MPI Terrestrial Microbiology, DE)

08:55 Molecular Self-Assembly Regulated by Chemical Reaction Cycles - Job Boekhoven (TU Munich, DE)

09:20 Proteins From Peptides - Andrei Lupas (MPI Biology, DE)
09:45 Discussion
Discussion
09:45 - 10:05
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10:05 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:05 - 10:30
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10:30
10:30 - 11:45
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Beiträge

10:30 Chemical Copying of RNA - Clemens Richert (U Stuttgart, DE)

10:55 Chemical Evolution Reimagined - Moran Frenkel-Pinter (The Hebrew U, IL)

11:20 RNA-lipid interactions in the synthesis and origin of life - James Saenz (TU Dresden, DE)
11:45 Discussion
Discussion
11:45 - 12:05
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12:05

12:05 - 13:30
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13:30 - 14:45
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Beiträge

13:30 PLP and the catalytic takeover in the origins of metabolism - Kamila Muchowska (U Strasbourg, FR)

13:55 Initial Steps towards an Evolutionary System leading to the Emergence of Life - Oliver Trapp (LMU Munich, DE)

14:20 Protocell formation and function in realistic prebiotic environments - Sarah Maurer (CCSU, US)
14:45 Discussion
Discussion
14:45 - 15:05
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15:05 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:05 - 15:30
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15:30
15:30 - 16:50
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Beiträge

15:30 Towards RNA-life from 2’,3’-cyclic nucleotides at CO2-water interfaces - Dieter Braun (LMU Munich, DE)

15:55 A catalytic RNA that generates GTP - Ulrich Müller (UCSD, US)

16:20 Evolution and Adaptation of Enzymes to Extreme Environments - Toshiko Ichiye (Georgetown U, US)
16:45 Discussion
Discussion
16:45 - 17:05
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17:05 Closing Remarks
Closing Remarks
17:05 - 17:10
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Freitag, 17. Juni 2022

08:25 Opening Remarks
Opening Remarks
08:25 - 08:30
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08:30
08:30 - 09:45
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Beiträge

08:30 Life as a Guide: Autotrophic protocells, protometabolism and the emergence of heredity - Nick Lane (UCL, UK)

08:55 The Molecular Origins of Life : the geological context - Frances Westall (CNRS, FR)

09:20 Heat flows as a driving force in a natural OOL laboratory - Christof Mast (LMU Munich, DE)
09:45 Discussion
Discussion
09:45 - 10:05
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10:05 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:05 - 10:30
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10:30
10:30 - 11:45
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Beiträge

10:30 Geological Disequilibrium Systems on Early Earth: Pathways to a vivid planet? - Bettina Scheu (LMU Munich, DE)

10:55 Computer Simulations of Non-Enzymatic Template-Directed RNA Synthesis - Paul Higgs (McMaster U, CA)

11:20 Probing the emergent behavior of RNA pools in silico - Ulrich Gerland (TU Munich, DE)
11:45 Discussion
Discussion
11:45 - 12:05
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12:05

12:05 - 13:30
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13:30
13:30 - 14:45
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Beiträge

13:30 DNA Origami in Origins of Life Research - Amelie Heuer-Jungemann (MPI Biochemistry, DE)

13:55 A modular RNA polymerase ribozyme with promoter recognition topologically associates with its template - Peter Unrau (SFU, CA)

14:20 Some like it hot – adaptation strategies of hyperthermophilic Archaea - Dina Grohmann (U Regensburg, DE)
14:45 Discussion
Discussion
14:45 - 15:05
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15:05 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:05 - 15:25
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15:25
15:25 - 16:45
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Beiträge

15:25 Evolving ribozymes to copy ribozymes: bootstrapping our way back to the RNA world - David Horning (Salk Inst, USA)

15:50 Can ancient genetic codes support life? – An experimental study - Burckhard Seelig (U Minnesota, US)

16:15 Design and directed evolution of artificial metalloenzymes and photoenzymes - Cathleen Zeymer (TU Munich, DE)
16:45 Discussion
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16:45 - 17:05
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17:05 Closing Remarks
Closing Remarks
17:05 - 17:10
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