Molecular Origins of Life, Munich 2023

Speaker List

• Karen Alim (TU Munich, DE)
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    Alkaline Vents Recreated in Two Dimensions to Study pH Gradients, Precipitation Morphology and Molecule Accumulation

• James Attwater (UCL, UK)
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    Open-ended amplification of RNA by a ribozyme

• David Catling (U Washington, USA)
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    Expected composition of the atmosphere and surface waters on the early Earth that favored the origin of life

• Zachary Cohen (U Washington, USA)
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    Nonenzymatic RNA assembly, ribozyme activity, and encapsulation by protocell membranes within natural carbonate lakes

• Claudia Höbartner (U Würzburg, DE)
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    RNA catalysis beyond phosphodiester chemistry: RNA methylation catalyzed by a methyltransferase ribozyme

• Norikazu Ichihashi (U Tokyo, JP)
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    Development of diversity and ecological complexity in the experimental evolution of an RNA-protein replicator

• Emmanuelle J. Javaux (U Liège, BE)
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    Early traces of life

• Tim Lichtenberg (U Groningen, NL)
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    Molten Exoplanets as a Window into the Earliest Earth

• Tomoaki Matsuura (ELSI, Tokyo Inst Tech, JP)
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    Constructing artificial cells that can evolve based on the function of membrane proteins

• Hannes Mutschler (TU Dortmund, DE)
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    Towards a protein-free biology

• Philippe Nghe (ESPCI-PSL, France)
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    Assessing the probability of autocatalytic RNAs using generative models and high-throughput screening

• Thomas E. Ouldridge (Imperial College London, UK)
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    Chemically-driven molecular templating

• Matthew W. Powner (UCL, UK)
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    On the unified roots of biological peptides and their spontaneous differentiation

• Sudha Rajamani (IISER Pune, IN)
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    Tales of select protocellular systems

• Paul B. Rimmer (U Cambridge, UK)
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    Krebs cycle intermediates as tracers of prebiotic chemistry

• Nita Sahai (U Akron, USA)
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    MuSeCOL: Mineral-Catalyzed Mutualism and Selection from a Complicated Broth in the Origins of Life

• Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin (Helmholtz & TU Munich, DE)
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    The molecular atlas of soluble organic matter of meteorites and of Ryugu C-type asteroid parent body

• Filipa L. Sousa (U Vienna, AT)
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    Retracing the modular evolution of Life by exploring extant genomes

• Evan Spruijt (Radboud U, NL)
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    When coacervates meet membranes

• Golo Storch (TU Munich, DE)
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    Molecular Flavins: Catalytic Activity outside Enzymes

• Meng Su (MRC LMB, UK)
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    The Origin of Genetic Code

• Jack W. Szostak (University of Chicago)
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    From RNA Copying Chemistry to RNA Replication

• T-Y. Dora Tang (MPI-CBG, DE)
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    Peptide-nucleic acid coacervation as a route to primitive compartmentalisation

• Zoe R. Todd (U Washington, USA)
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    Growth of prebiotically plausible fatty acid vesicles proceeds in the presence of prebiotic amino acids, dipeptides, sugars, and nucleic acid components

• Hikaru Yabuta (Hiroshima U, JP)
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    Organic Matter in the Samples of Asteroid Ryugu

• Miho Yanagisawa (U Tokyo, JP)
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    From cell-size confinement effects on polymer solutions to the physical significance of cell size